Between pacifism and Jihad
Subtitle: just war and Christian tradition
By: J. Daryl Charles.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Downers Grove, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines.; Just war doctrine -- History.; War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Just war doctrine.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Wrestling with a perennial issue; title: Contemporary geopolitics; title: Presumption against war or against injustice?; title: Making moral judgments; title: Religious attitudes toward war; title: Just-war thinking and the terrorist threat; title: Just-war thinking in ancient and medieval thought; title: Pre-Christian just-war thinking; title: Early Christian attitudes toward war and soldiering; title: Early Christian development of just-war thinking : Ambrose and Augustine; title: The medieval development of just-war thinking in Thomas Aquinas; title: Just-war thinking in the late medieval and early modern period; title: The Protestant Reformers on church and state and war; title: Early modern thinking about international law : Vitoria, Suarez and Grotius; title: Just-war thinking in the modern period to the present; title: Reinhold Niebuhr; title: John Courtney Murray; title: Paul Ramsey; title: William V. O'Brien; title: Michael Walzer; title: James Turner Johnson; title: Jean Bethke Elshtain; title: Roman Catholic social teaching; title: Christian ethics and the use of force; title: The personal and the political (Romans 12-13); title: Rethinking the "politics of Jesus"; title: Rethinking the ethics of the New Testament; title: Rethinking pacifism and the nonviolent imperative; title: Rethinking neighbor love; title: The morality of preemptive force; title: Just-war theory : its character, constitution, and context; title: Rethinking justice; title: Just war's debt to natural-law thinking; title: The spectrum of force : just war as a mediating position; title: The moral criteria of the just-war position; title: The justice of deterrence; title: Retribution or revenge?; title: Just-war theory and the problem of terrorism; title: The nature of the terrorist threat; title: Terror in the name of God; title: Just war's response to terrorism; title: Extending just-war thinking beyond war and terrorism : postbello considerations; title: The church's worldly mission; title: Christ and culture revisited; title: Adjusting our eschatology and ethics; title: Incarnational witness and civic duty; title: The moral necessity of politics : rendering to Caesar what is Caesar's; title: Taking theology seriously.