Based on a conference held Mar. 15-17, 2000 at Wheaton College.

Introduction :the ethical challenge / Kenneth R. Chase -- The First Crusade : some theological and historical context / Joseph H. Lynch -- Violence of the conquistadores and prophetic indignation / Luis N. Rivera-Pagán -- Is God violent? : theological options in the antislavery movement / Dan McKanan -- Christians as rescuers during the Holocaust / David P. Gushee -- Have Christians done more harm than good? / Mark A. Noll -- Beyond complicity : the challenges for Christianity after the Holocaust / Victoria Barnett -- How should we then teach American history? : a perspective of constructive nonviolence / James C. Juhnke -- Christian discourse and the humility of peace / Kenneth R. Chase -- Jesus and just peacemaking theory / Glen Stassen -- Violence and the atonement / Richard J. Mouw -- Explaining Christian nonviolence : notes for a conversation with John Milbank / Stanley Hauerwas -- Violence : double passivity / John Milbank. Addendum : testing pacifism : questions for John Milbank -- Christian peace : a conversation between Stanley Hauerwas and John Milbank / John Milbank and Stanley Hauerwas -- Afterword / Alan Jacobs.