Lightning East to West: Jesus, Gandhi, and the Nuclear Age

We live in that final time which offers humans the clearest choice in history: the kingdom or the holocaust, Jim Douglass writes. Either end is a lightning east to west: the nuclear holocaust a lightning fire, the kingdom of Reality a lightning spirit. We will choose lightning east to west today as either nuclear fire or the kingdom of God, as either despair and annihilation or transformation through nonviolence. If we look to Jesus and Gandhi, and what they point to, we can hope to choose the lightning fire of nonviolence.

Author: James W. Douglass
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: 04/01/2006
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.58w x 0.26d
ISBN13: 9781597526104
ISBN10: 159752610X
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology | Ethics
- History | Military | Nuclear Warfare
- Religion | Religion, Politics & State

About the Author
Jim Douglass is a writer and a Catholic Worker. He and his wife Shelley are co-founders of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, WA, and Mary's House, a Catholic Worker house of hospitality in Birmingham, AL. He is currently writing three books on the assassinations of the Kennedys, Malcom X and King in the 1960's (with Orbis Books).

The James Douglass Reprint Series:
The Non-Violent Cross
Resistance and Contemplation
Lightning East to West
The Nonviolent Coming of God