Posts in the ‘Theology’ Category

After thirty years of teaching Christian ethics I felt a deep need to build a communion table for my seminary’s chapel. The words of ethics had to find expression in the wood of a table. For many years we ethicists had assumed that people could work off of a spiritual capital derived from worship, but [...]

Dorotheos responded by asking them to visualize the world as a great circle whose center is God, and upon whose circumference lie human lives.  ”Imagine now,” he asked them, “that there are straight lines connecting from the outside of the circle all human lives to God at the center.  Can’t you see that there is [...]

70 x 7: A Theology of Reconciliation Matthew 18:15-17 is well known in some Christian settings as a text that summarizes a process for handling conflict within the church or between church members.[i] These verses, however, are too often interpreted in isolation. When understood in the context of the entire chapter, we see an unfolding [...]

The Table of Holy Communion can provide the place, the time, the ritual and the spiritual power for transforming our conflicts, healing our relationships and doing the work ofreconciliation in the world.

A website of Peace Theology maintained by Ted Grimsrud for the purpose of considering issues of war and peace, violence and nonviolence, from a Christian theological perspective . Grimsrud teaches theology and peace studies at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA.