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by James Lutzweiler (Author), William Kostlevy (Foreword by)
This book is simply a written Sunday school lesson rather than the oral variety. The primary topic is war and the relationship of a Christian to it. While someday war shall be studied no more, that day has not yet arrived. This book chronicles with specific examples how a few Christians like Rev. J. J. Taylor, Alvin York, Vernon Grounds, Franz Jagerstatter, and the author himself have approached the topic. Dietrich Bonhoeffer also makes a guest appearance, as do Tolstoy, Gandhi, and MLK. The book does not advocate a pure pacifism. The author has not solved all the problems associated with that viewpoint and does not know anyone who has. But it does argue for peacemaking, the likes of which is addressed by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount and by St. Paul, who urges us to wrestle with principalities and powers, i.e., ideas, and not to wrestle with flesh and blood. This the author has tried to do within these peacemaking pages and the comparative safety of his laptop and life in bucolic and pastoral Jamestown, North Carolina.
Author Biography
James Lutzweiler was the archivist (1999-2013) for Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Concurrently he operated a microfilm business, specializing in the preservation of primary fundamentalist and evangelical research materials including a complete run of The Sunday School Times (1859-1967). He has attended Sunday schools from Jimmy Carter's class to that of Elmer Towns, co-founder with Jerry Falwell of Liberty University, and he has taught it from Wooddale megachurch in Eden Prairie to the historic First Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina.
