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just war and Christian tradition

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An edition of Between pacifism and Jihad (2005)

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just war and Christian tradition

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InterVarsity Press
Language
English
Pages
196

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Table of Contents

Wrestling with a perennial issue
Contemporary geopolitics
Presumption against war or against injustice?
Making moral judgments
Religious attitudes toward war
Just-war thinking and the terrorist threat
Just-war thinking in ancient and medieval thought
Pre-Christian just-war thinking
Early Christian attitudes toward war and soldiering
Early Christian development of just-war thinking : Ambrose and Augustine
The medieval development of just-war thinking in Thomas Aquinas
Just-war thinking in the late medieval and early modern period
The Protestant Reformers on church and state and war
Early modern thinking about international law : Vitoria, Suarez and Grotius
Just-war thinking in the modern period to the present
Reinhold Niebuhr
John Courtney Murray
Paul Ramsey
William V. O'Brien
Michael Walzer
James Turner Johnson
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Roman Catholic social teaching
Christian ethics and the use of force
The personal and the political (Romans 12-13)
Rethinking the "politics of Jesus"
Rethinking the ethics of the New Testament
Rethinking pacifism and the nonviolent imperative
Rethinking neighbor love
The morality of preemptive force
Just-war theory : its character, constitution, and context
Rethinking justice
Just war's debt to natural-law thinking
The spectrum of force : just war as a mediating position
The moral criteria of the just-war position
The justice of deterrence
Retribution or revenge?
Just-war theory and the problem of terrorism
The nature of the terrorist threat
Terror in the name of God
Just war's response to terrorism
Extending just-war thinking beyond war and terrorism : postbello considerations
The church's worldly mission
Christ and culture revisited
Adjusting our eschatology and ethics
Incarnational witness and civic duty
The moral necessity of politics : rendering to Caesar what is Caesar's
Taking theology seriously.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-193) and index.

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Downers Grove, Ill

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
261.8/73
Library of Congress
BT736.2 C43 2005, BT736.2 .C43 2005, BT736.2C43 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
196 p. ;
Number of pages
196

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3391706M
ISBN 10
0830827722
LCCN
2005000231
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333652

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