Agape and Ahimsa: Twin Roots of Nonviolence

This ebook is an extended “fireside chat” from Ira Zepp in which he reflects on agape (love for others) and ahimsa (non-injury), the roots of nonviolence, and offers several stories about approximations to peace. There is also some of Ira’s social gospel theology here, in very accessible language. The book concludes with a real chat between Ira and his friend Bill Holmes, taken from their email correspondence just after 9/11. You will like this book if you are interested in peacemaking and in the eternal tensions among violence, nonviolence, and pacifism. – Co-author Charles Collyer

The late Ira G. Zepp Jr. was Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College. Charles E. Collyer is Co-Director of the Ira and Mary Zepp Center for Nonviolence and Peace Education, a program of Common Ground on the Hill. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Rhode Island. William A. Holmes served as the Senior Minister at Metropolitan Memorial, the National Methodist Church in Washington DC.