Not In God's Name by Jonathan Sacks
Confronting Religious Violence
A thoughtful analysis of how appeals to God have been used to justify violence and how religious traditions also contain resources for preventing and healing such violence; through close readings of biblical stories and contemporary examples the book traces how rivalry, scapegoating, and the claim of divine sanction turn differences into existential threats and shows how responsibility, covenantal ethics, imaginative empathy and argument — rather than force—can limit brutality. It argues for an ethical reading of scripture, respect for the stranger, and pluralistic dialogue as ways to transform enmity into shared moral responsibility and political cooperation.
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- 2015
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