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# More Volf on non-retaliation and God’s justice
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2008214more-volf-on-non-retaliation-and-gods-justice-html/
- Published: 2008-02-14T14:46:01.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:32:03.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Theology, #DashHouseCom, #wp

How does one not retaliate in the middle of brutal violence? How does one embrace non-retalitation when we’re talking about something like genocide rather than only an unkind word? Miroslav Volf, a witness to violence in the Balkans, argues that non-retaliation is only possible when we leave vengeance to God:

> If God were not angry at injustice and deception and did not make a final end to violence – that God would not be worthy of worship…*The only means of prohibiting all recourse to violence by ourselves is to insist that violence is legitimate only when it comes from God*…My thesis that the practice of non-violence requires a belief in divine vengeance will be unpopular with many…in the West…\[But\] it takes the quiet of a suburban home for the birth of the thesis that human non-violence \[results from the belief in\] God’s refusal to judge. In a sun-schorched land, soaked in the blood of the innocent, it will invariably die…\[with\] other pleasant captivities of the liberal mind. ([*Exclusion and Embrace*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0687002826/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com))