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Author:

Charles, J. Daryl, 1950-

Title:

Between pacifism and Jihad : just war and Christian tradition / J. Daryl Charles.

Publisher:

InterVarsity Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

196 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

War--History of doctrines.--Christianity--History of doctrines.
Just war doctrine--History.
War--Christianity.--Christianity.
Just war doctrine.

Notes:

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

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.

ISBN:

9780830827725 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0830827722 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57434184

LCCN:

2005000231

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

POAX626 -- Jessop-Bruner Library (University Park)