Research Catalog

Title

Christian faith and the truth behind 9/11 : a call to reflection and action / David Ray Griffin.

Author

Griffin, David Ray, 1939-2022

Publication

Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.

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Details

Description

x, 246 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Probing disturbing questions that beg for a response from the Christian community, distinguished scholar of religion and popular writer David Ray Griffin provides a hard-hitting analysis of the official accounts of the events of September 11, 2001. A tireless investigator, Griffin has sorted through enormous amounts of government and independent data and brought to the surface some very unsettling inconsistencies about what really happened. In this, his latest book, he analyzes the evidence on 9/11 and then explores a distinctively Christian perspective on these issues, taking seriously what we know about Jesus' life, death, and teachings. Drawing a parallel between the Roman Empire of antiquity and the American Empire of today, he applies Jesus' teachings to the current political administration, and he explores how Christian churches, as a community intending to be an incarnation of the divine, can and should respond."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
• Since 2001
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Causes
• Imperialism
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Religious aspects
• Christianity and politics > United States
• Anti-imperialist movements > United States
• United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009
• United States > Foreign relations > 2001-2009

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-241) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Evidence that 9/11 was a false-flag operation. 9/11 and prior false-flag operations ; Explosive testimony : revelations about the Twin Towers in the 9/11 oral histories ; The destruction of the World Trade Center : why the official account cannot be true ; Flights o fancy : the 9/11 Commission's incredible tales of Flights 11, 175, 77, and 93 ; Bush administration responsibility for 9/11 : from prima facie to a conclusive case -- pt. 2. A Christian critique of 9/11 and American imperialism. Imperial motives for a "new Pearl Harbor" ; Jesus and the Roman Empire ; The divine and the demonic ; The American empire, Demonic evil. And 9/11 ; A call to reflection and action.

ISBN

• 0664231179 (alk. paper)
• 9780664231170

LCCN

^^2006044731

OCLC

• 69672018
• SCSB-11662400

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library