title: Violence and Theology (Horizons in Theology)
author: Cheryl Kirk-Duggan
description: Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan is Professor of Theology and Women's Studies and Director of Women's Studies at Shaw University Divinity School in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has authored many books, including <i>Mary Had a Baby</i> and <i>Undivided Soul</i>, both published by Abingdon Press.
zlib_text: Faith and Violence 
  
  That neither the low democracy of a nightmare nor 
  An army's primitive tidiness may deceive me 
  About our predicament. 
  W. H. Auden 
  (Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden, 
  Random House, p. 129) 
  
  Faith and 
  Violence 
  Christian Teaching and 
  Christian Practice 
  Thomas Merton 
  UNIVERSITY 
  O F  
  NOTRE 
  DAME 
  PRESS 
  1968 
  
  Copyright © ig68 by 
  UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS 
  Notre Dame, Indiana 
  Library of Congress Card Catalog Number: 68-20438 
  Manufactured in the United States of America 
  
  To Phil Berrigan and Jim Forest 
  
  Acknowledgments 
  Grateful acknowledgement is herewith made to the following for 
  permission to reprint the material listed below. 
  Commonweal, "The Unbelief of Believers" and "Honest to God"; 
  Continuum, "Peace and Protest" and "The Meaning of Mal-
  colm X"; 
  Fellowship, "Blessed Are the Meek"; 
  Herder and Herder, "Non-Violence and the Christian Con­
  science" and "Prison Meditations of Father Delp"; 
  Katallagete, "Events and Pseudo-Events," "The Hot Sum