Collects eleven lectures on Christian pacifism given by John Howard Yoder in Warsaw, Poland, in 1983.

Foreword : memos from Yoder -- The heritage of nonviolent thought and action -- The American civil rights struggle -- The lessons of the nonviolent experience -- The fall and rise of the just war tradition -- The science of conflict -- From the wars of Joshua to Jewish pacifism -- Jesus and nonviolent liberation -- Early Christian cosmology and nonviolence -- Varieties of Catholic peace theology I : nonviolent spirituality -- Varieties of Catholic peace theology II : professors and pastors -- Varieties of Catholic peace theology III : Latin American models.