The Just War Revisited (Current Issues in Theology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780521538992
Subjects: Christian moral & pastoral theology; Ethics & moral philosophy; International relations; Warfare & Defence; War; Religion; Theology - Academic; Christian Theology - Ethics; Religion / Christianity; Christianity - Theology - Ethics; Christianity - General; Christianity; Religious aspects
First sentence: On the famous Ghent altarpiece, on which the Van Eyck brothers depicted the adoration of the Lamb of God standing upon an altar on a greensward in front of the Heavenly Jerusalem, there appear in the lower left-hand panel two groups of people at the edge of the worshipping crowd.
Description: With Christian views differing widely on the morality of war, this book seriously re-examines ethical questions of contemporary urgency. The text covers the use of biological and nuclear weapons, military intervention, economic sanctions, and the role of the U.N. Opening with a challenging dedication to the new Archbishop of Canterbury, it proceeds to analyze vital topics which the Archbishop and others will find relevant to the discussion of the ethics of warfare.