the Peace Theology Development Team ; edited by Susan Thistlethwaite ; produced by the Office for Church in Society, United Church of Christ.

The Peace Theology Team was commissioned by the General Synod of the United Church of Christ to consider the bases and ramifica tions-theological, political, and program-matic of becoming a peacemaking church. This book represents a beginning theological statement on peace written specifically for the UCC, but valuable for people of other denominations as well. It explores the historical situation, and concludes that the new reality of global destructiveness demands new theological insight and sensitivity, which are demonstrated. It reviews the theological predicates of a just peace church, and ends with suggestions on how the church can transform itself, A Proposal for Action.

A JUST PEACE CHURCH is published in the hope that it will help this process of planetary transformation. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with these momentous issues.