| Borderline: Reflections on War, Sex, and Church Contributor(s): Goff, Stan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0718894073 ISBN-13: 9780718894078 Publisher: Lutterworth Press OUR PRICE: $52.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - Ethics - Religion | Ethics - Religion | Christianity - General |
| Dewey: 241 |
| Physical Information: (0.73 lbs) 470 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In his sharp, observant book, Stan Goff grapples with a problem crucial to modern Christian values. The sanctification of war and contempt for women are both grounded in a fear that breeds hostility, a hostility that valorises conquest and murder. In 'Borderline', Goff dissects the driving force behind the darkest impulses of the human heart. The un-Christian history of loving war and hating women are not merely similar but two sides of the same coin, he argues, in an 'autobiography' that spanstwo millennia of war and misogyny. 'Borderline' is the personal and conceptual history of an American career army veteran transformed by Jesus into a passionate advocate for nonviolence, written by a man who narrates his conversion to Christianity through feminism. |
Contributor Bio(s): Goff, Stan: - Stan Goff spent most of the final three decades of the twentieth century as a soldier--most of that in what is euphemistically called "special operations." He is sometimes a writer, sometimes an "activist," sometimes a husband, dad, and granddad, and sometimes a gardener. |