The Principle of Love as the Key to Peacemaking in the Abrahamic Faiths and in the Teaching of Jesus

Joseph L. Cumming

To speak of love is to take the meaning of peace to a deeper level. The word “peace” can mean simply the absence of conflict. If we separate from each other, so that we are not killing each other, then we have a certain kind of peace. But if our vision of true peace involves loving God with all of our being and loving one another as we love ourselves, then this requires a very different kind of behavior from mere separation.

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