TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Definitions -- The Participation Self -- Lament as Normative -- Three Types of Law -- Middle Axioms -- Power and Nonviolence -- Conceptions of Injustice -- Injustice as Child Abuse -- CHAPTER ONE: LAMENT, LAW, AND JUSTICE -- Strangers in Egypt -- Lament and the Covenant -- Individual Laments -- Communal Laments -- Prophetic Laments -- Communal Dirges -- Critique of the Foe-Lament -- Justice at the Gate -- CHAPTER TWO: LOVE, JUSTICE, AND COMPASSION -- The Kingdom of God -- Jesus™ Compassion -- Jesus™ Jubilee Justice -- Paul™s Restorative Justice -- CHAPTER THREE: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE -- Historical Origins -- Gandhian Nonviolence -- Struggle for Independence -- Gandhian Dialectic -- An American Gandhi -- Ethic of Responsibility -- CHAPTER FOUR: ETHICS OF NONVIOLENCE -- Early Civil Rights Struggles -- Justice and Lament -- Direct Nonviolent Action -- Struggle at Selma -- Individual-Prophetic Laments -- King™s Social Ethic -- CHAPTER FIVE: AT THE ORIGIN OF LIFE -- The Regulation of Birth -- Abortion -- In Vitro Fertilization -- Cloning -- Genetic Modification -- CHAPTER SIX: THE CARE OF CHILDREN -- Religious Exemption Clauses -- Spiritual Healing -- Positive Confession -- The Blood Atonement Doctrine -- Blood Atonement and Child Abuse -- Religious Liberty Issues -- The Duty to Care -- Three Concepts of Punishment -- Restorative Principles -- Ethical Guidelines -- CHAPTER SEVEN: WEALTH, PROPERTY, AND NATURE -- Two Theories of Wealth -- The Private City -- Critique of Privatism -- The Just Wage -- The American Plutocracy -- Globalization -- Work and Migration -- Life as Property -- CHAPTER EIGHT: WAR, PEACE, AND JUSTICE -- Doctrine of Non-Resistance -- The Just War -- The Holy War -- Holy Terrorism -- The Bush Doctrine of Preemption -- A Nonviolence Assessment.

CHAPTER NINE: AT THE END OF LIFE -- Biblical Images of Death -- Care of the Dying -- Death and Transplantation -- The Right to Refuse Treatment -- Euthanasia -- Physician Assisted-Suicide -- Assisted-Suicide and the Law -- Suicide in Oregon -- A Theological Assessment -- CONCLUSION: THE JUSTICE IMPERATIVE -- Dynamics of Social Change -- Modes of Leadership -- Civil Rights and Revolution -- Human Rights -- Nature™s Rights -- Nonviolence Renewed -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.