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Assessing The Christian's Response To The Annihilating Self-Communication Of A Suicide Bomber, C. A. Chase
Assessing The Christian's Response To The Annihilating Self-Communication Of A Suicide Bomber, C. A. Chase
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In a world, where cartoonists and grocery shoppers are gunned down in Paris, and journalists are beheaded on Youtube, the annihilating self-communication of a suicide bomber serves as a ready-made opportunity for a radical claim at sovereignty, if only for a moment. To bomb is to communicate an absolute immanence. Such bombing is a demand for a response.
This paper assesses the Christian’s response to the use of such bombing-as-communication. It does so by first considering the agent of the response, and her self-identity as Christian, and then bombing as a form of self-communication, from: the perspective of its nature, …
James Baldwin And James Cone: God, Man, And The Redeeming Relationship, Rea Mcdonnell S.S.N.D.
James Baldwin And James Cone: God, Man, And The Redeeming Relationship, Rea Mcdonnell S.S.N.D.
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Originally written as a graduate paper in 1972 as part of a Master of Arts in Theology. See http://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/sot_papers/439/