Peace and Faith

PEACEAND FAITH: Christian Churches and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, composedof new essays, is the first collection to bring together writers from differentfaith communities to discuss the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement’simpact on one of the more fractious topics addressed by Christiandenominations: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In so doing, it builds oninterfaith projects under way for decades. Theology and politics intermingle indebates taking place in local churches, Christian NGOs, and national church meetingsthat define official policy. The debates revive and reframe the most basicvalues of Christianity and the questions church members seek to resolve: How doChristians today hew to the principles Jesus articulated? How can justice bepursued in the context of competing national narratives and historicalunderstandings? What bearing do or should centuries of Christian violenceagainst Jews and Muslims have on contemporary theology and ethics? Is itethical, or even possible, to set aside millennia of Christian anti-Semitism injudging Israel’s conduct? What Christian values should be honored in pursuingJesus’s mission of reconciliation today? How may the pursuit of truth becorrupted by passionate social witness? Can advocacy cross the line into hatred?These are among the critical questions this collection poses and attempts toaddress.