BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTES: Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror: Christianity, Violence, and the West

Philippe Buc's book grapples with the problem of violence in the Christian and "post-Christian" West over the course of two thousand years. His two-pronged thesis--that violence is not some deviance within the Christian tradition, but rather an omnipresent strain, and that the traditi...

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Published in:Church history 2017, Vol.86 (1), p.196
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Modernism
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Religious wars
Secularism
Terrorism
Traditions
Violence
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