Religion and Non-Violence: Premodern Roots of Pacifism

Religion and Non-Violence: Premodern Roots of Pacifism

I. Review

Religion and Non-Violence: Premodern Roots of Pacifism

I. Review

II. Peter Chelcicky [Chelčický] and the Czech Brethren

Petr Chelčický: Do Not Repay Evil with Evil

“For God did not, through His apostles, ordain a king for the Holy Church, to bear her tribulations on his sword, to fight for her against her enemies, and through force to make that Church serve Him…Nor did He give her bailiffs and hangmen, so that some members of the Holy Church could hang others, or torture others on the rack, for the sake of material things—this is for the pagans and for this world.”

- Peter Chelcicky

Religion and Non-Violence: Premodern Roots of Pacifism

I. Review

II. Peter Chelcicky [Chelčický] and the Czech Brethren

III. The Earliest Anabaptists

Religion and Non-Violence: Premodern Roots of Pacifism

I. Review

II. Peter Chelcicky [Chelčický] and the Czech Brethren

III. The Earliest Anabaptists

A. Conrad Grebel vs. Ulrich Zwingli

Religion and Non-Violence: Premodern Roots of Pacifism

I. Review

II. Peter Chelcicky [Chelčický] and the Czech Brethren

III. The Earliest Anabaptists

A. Conrad Grebel vs. Ulrich Zwingli

B. The Schleitheim Confession (1527)

Religion and Non-Violence: Premodern Roots of Pacifism

I. Review

II. Peter Chelcicky [Chelčický] and the Czech Brethren

III. The Earliest Anabaptists

A. Conrad Grebel vs. Ulrich Zwingli

B. The Schleitheim Confession (1527)

.IV. An Artistic Perspective on War: Peter Paul Rubens

Religion and Non-Violence: Premodern Roots of Pacifism

I. Review

II. Peter Chelcicky [Chelčický] and the Czech Brethren

III. The Earliest Anabaptists

A. Conrad Grebel vs. Ulrich Zwingli

B. The Schleitheim Confession (1527)

.IV. An Artistic Perspective on War: Peter Paul Rubens

Context: 30 Years War (1618-1648)

Religion and Non-Violence: Premodern Roots of Pacifism

I. Review

II. Peter Chelcicky [Chelčický] and the Czech Brethren

III. The Earliest Anabaptists

A. Conrad Grebel vs. Ulrich Zwingli

B. The Schleitheim Confession (1527)

.IV. An Artistic Perspective on War: Peter Paul Rubens

Context: 30 Years War (1618-1648)

Peter Paul Rubens and The Consequences of War

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Rubens’ Consequences of War (1638)