Orthodox Christian perspectives on war
By: edited by Perry T. Hamalis and Valerie A. Karras
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780268102777
Subjects: Doctrines; Orthodox Eastern Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ascetics of war : the undoing and redoing of virtue --; title: Exposing the state of the question : a case study of American Orthodox response to the 1999 war in Kosovo --; title: Chariots of fire, unassailable cities, and the one true king : a prophetically influenced scribal perspective on war and peace --; title: Herodian-Roman domination, violent Jewish peasant resistance, and Jesus of Nazareth --; title: "Their hands are not clean" : Origen and the Cappadocians on war and military service --; title: Constantine, Ambrose, and the Morality of War : how Ambrose of Milan challenged the Imperial discourse on war and violence --; title: Lessons from military saints in the Byzantine tradition --; title: Debates on just war, holy war, and peace : Orthodox Christian thought and Byzantine imperial attitudes toward war --; title: War and peace : providence and the interim --; title: A helper of providence : "justified providential war" in Vladimar Solov'ey --; title: War, technology, and the canon law principle of Economia --; title: Just peacemaking and Christian realism : possibilities for moving beyond the impasse in Orthodox Christian war ethics.