Eugene,
I can't, offhand, help you with precise theological sources,
but you might be interested in an internal debate that occurred at
Calvin College, the very intellectually and religiously serious Dutch
Reformed college in Michigan, when the school administration decided
(after
Very interesting, thanks very much!
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Very interesting, thanks very much!
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I'm looking for good sources that discuss religious attitudes
towards self-defense or defense of others, deadly and otherwise; in
particular, I'm looking to see whether there are religious groups that
(1) take the view that deadly force is always bad, even in self-defense
or defense of others,