RELIGST 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Rosemary Radford Ruether, Shema Yisrael, Nonviolence

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2H03
• Professor: Ann Pearson

Document Summary

Resources for peace & nonviolence in the textual traditions of judaism and christianity. Centrality of god in the abrahamic religions/ he"s the creator of the universe (1) judaism. The patriarch abraham common to judaism, christianity, and islam. Hear, o israel, the lord is our god, the lord is one. You shall love the lord your god with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. God"s creation of the world, of all living things. Garden of eden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil: represents beginning also of human beings" capacity for . Making right choices is one of the bible"s major themes. People foul the earth with violence & corruption. Tower of babel & confounding of human language. A form of binding contract between god and human beings (god sets out laws & guidance, in turn, humans who are party to the covenant are expected to obey).