Mary Margaret Funk 
Renouncing Violence [EPUB ebook] 
Practice from the Monastic Tradition

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Chapter One About Renunciation

Chapter Two About Jesus, the Way out of Violence

Chapter Three About How God Has No Wrath

Chapter Four About How God So Loves the World

Chapter Five About the Holy Spirit and Discernment

Chapter Six About Anger

Chapter Seven About the Practice of Renouncing Violence

Chapter Eight About Holy Water

Appendix One Holy Water Prayer

Appendix Two Prayers in Time of Trouble

Appendix Three What I’ve Learned from Those Who’ve Been Harmed by Violence

Notes

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Mary Margaret Funk is a Benedictine nun of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana. From 1994 through 2004, she served as executive director of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue, which fosters dialogue among monastics of the world's religions. In addition to the volumes of the Matters Series, she is the author of Islam Is . . . : An Experience of Dialogue and Devotion and Into the Depths: A Journey of Loss and Vocation.