Coming in the wake of momentous changes in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, Germany and the movement for democracy in China, Celebrating Peace presents original essays by thinkers and writers to provide reflections on peace that go beyond current events and point towards extending and building peace. This volume intends not only to celebrate peace but to contribute to an understanding of it through philosophical, theological and literary explorations.

Contributors include:
Part I: Just War, Perpetual Peace, and the Nation-State
John J. Gilligan, John H. Yoder, Sissela Bok, and Stephen Toulmin
Part II: Christian Conceptions of Peace
Trutz Rendtorff, Jurgen Moltmann, and Paul S. Minear
Part II: Hindu and Buddhist Views of Peace
Gerlad J. Larson, Ninian Smart, and Bhukhu Parek
Part IV: Making Peace: Prophecy, protest and poetry
Daniel Berrigan, S.J., and Denise Levertov