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3 - Wrestling with the Violence of Conquest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2020

Cecelia Lynch
Cecelia Lynch
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University of California, Irvine
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Already in the fourteenth century, Dante Alighieri went straight to the heart of early modern Christianity’s moral conundrum, putting into stark relief its astonishing ethical presumptions regarding salvation and condemnation. He suggests, ominously, that there is a constant potential for epistemic as well as bodily violence in Christian “charity” and notions of “justice” regarding non-Christians who reside far from Europe, although it is unclear in this canto whether the judgment that is supposed to await nonbelievers is to be meted out within the course of history or beyond it.2

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Conquest of the AmericasIndigenous religion/indigeneityAmerindians/nativesColonialismConversionJesuitsPuritansOtherness/AlterityEpistemic privilegeBartolomé de Las CasasEusebio KinoRoger WilliamsJonathan Edwards
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Wrestling with God
Ethical Precarity in Christianity and International Relations
 , pp. 70 - 106
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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