Nonresistance

Nonresistance is the principle or practice of refraining from opposing aggression or authority, often for moral or religious reasons. It may call for refusing violence while accepting harm or punishment.

Sermon on the Mount: A collection of Jesus’ teachings in the Gospel of Matthew, including instructions about retaliation and enemies. Its teachings on turning the other cheek are a central source for Christian nonresistance.
Nonviolent resistance: The deliberate use of nonviolent action to oppose injustice or compel political and social change. Unlike nonresistance, it actively confronts an opponent through protest, noncooperation, or intervention.
Early Christians: The communities that followed Jesus in the first centuries of the Common Era. Some early Christian writings and practices are cited as examples of refusing violence and military service.
Pacifist organization: An organization that opposes war or violence and promotes peaceful alternatives. Such groups turn individual refusal into collective advocacy and mutual support.
Christian pacifism: The Christian conviction that following Jesus requires rejecting war and violence. It often grounds nonresistance in Jesus’ commands concerning enemies and retaliation.
Pacifism: A range of beliefs opposing war or violence, sometimes absolutely and sometimes under specified conditions. Nonresistance is one possible practice within the broader family of pacifist beliefs.
Society of Friends: A Christian movement, commonly called Quakers, whose traditions include peace testimony and opposition to war. Quaker peace testimony has often translated nonresistance into refusal of military participation.
War tax resistance: Refusal to pay some or all taxes because they fund military activity. It applies nonresistance to state violence through refusal to finance it.
Anabaptism: A Christian movement originating in the Reformation that emphasizes believer’s baptism and, in many traditions, nonviolence. Several Anabaptist communities made nonresistance a defining commitment.
Self-defense: The use of proportionate force to protect oneself or others from imminent harm. Permitting defensive force conflicts with strict forms of nonresistance.

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