Book Description
An inquiry into the ancient Christian theory of the "just war" and its application today.
Author : Paul Ramsey
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Published for the Lilly Endowment Research Program in Christianity and Politics by Duke University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 1961
Category : War
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An inquiry into the ancient Christian theory of the "just war" and its application today.
Author : Lilly Endowment Research Program in Christianity and Politics (United States)
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 1961
Category : War
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Author : Paul Ramsey
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Paul Ramsey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780742522329
With a new foreword by noted theologian and ethicist Stanley Hauerwas, this classic text on war and the ethics of modern statecraft written at the height of the Vietnam era in 1968 speaks to a new generation of readers. Characterized by a sophisticated yet back-to-basics approach, The Just War begins with the assumption that force is a fact in political life which must either be reckoned with or succumbed to. It then grapples with modern challenges to traditional moral principles of "just conduct" in war, the "morality of deterrence," and a "just war theory of statecraft."
Author : Fahey, Joseph J.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608334694
This primer on war and the Christian conscience begins in an imaginary college classroom as students react to news that the draft has been reinstated. ""Why cant I finish college?"" asks one student. ""Why do I have to go?"" These urgent and personal questions offer the entry to a clear and comprehensive outline of the basic Christian responses to the problem of war. As Fahey shows, the Christian tradition has supplied a variety of answers, including pacifism, just war teaching, the ethic of ""total war,"" and the vision of a ""world community."" In the face of these different approaches, how are we to decide which one is right? And more basically, how does one go about forming ones personal conscience? For all who ponder these moral challenges--whether as young people facing the question of military service, or as counselors, chaplains, or teachers--this book offers an essential and practical guide.
Author : Paul Ramsey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498283969
This searching critique of the United Methodist Bishops pastoral letter on war and peace in a nuclear age, by America s foremost Christian ethicist, exposes theological flaws from which flow gaps in moral argument and strangely utopian politics. Never before has In Defense of Creation been more thoroughly analyzed. At the same time Paul Ramsey gives a full-length and detailed comparison of the Methodist document with The Challenge of Peace by the U.S. Catholic Bishops. Issues of nuclear ethics, as seen by the leaders of two major churches, are set fully in view for the first time in a single volume. This ecumenical consultation is broadened by drawing extensively on the writings of Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder. The book s larger purpose is to construe an encounter between Christian just-war tradition and Christian pacifism. This comparative discussion of Christian ethics should be of interest to any reader concerned about the nuclear crisis. Some of the questions confronted in these pages are: What do people mean by nonviolence ? Should we never kill another human being, or never kill another human being unjustly? Do Christian pacifism and Christian just-war teachings have anything in common in their understanding of the Christian moral life? Do different interpretations of the person and work of Jesus Christ give rise to Christian pacifism and to just-war participation? Are these irreducibly different options equally valid for followers of Christ? Do the tests of discrimination and proportion lead to the same prohibitions on war and limits in war in a nuclear age? With an epilogue by Stanley Hauerwas, this volume offers the unusual event of two Methodist laymen engaged in lively debate over their church and the modern world. "
Author : Susanna Mancini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316805395
In this work, Professors Rosenfeld and Mancini have brought together an impressive group of authors to provide a comprehensive analysis on the greater demand for religions exemptions to government mandates. Traditional religious conscientious objection cases, such as refusal to salute the flag or to serve in the military during war, had a diffused effect throughout society. In sharp contrast, these authors argue that today's most notorious objections impinge on the rights of others, targeting practices like abortion, LGTBQ adoption, and same-sex marriage. The dramatic expansion of conscientious objection claims have revolutionized the battle between religious traditionalists and secular civil libertarians, raising novel political, legal, constitutional and philosophical challenges. Highlighting the intersection between conscientious objections, religious liberty, and the equality of women and sexual minorities, this volume showcases this political debate and the principal jurisprudence from different parts of the world and emphasizes the little known international social movements that compete globally to alter the debate's terms.
Author : John Oliver Nelson
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 2011-04
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ISBN : 9781258002671
Author : Paul Ramsey
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Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Therese Feiler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567678296
The modern ethics of war is a field of disparate, competing voices based on often unexplored theological and metaphysical assumptions. Therese Feiler approaches them from the borderline area between systematics, philosophical theology and religious studies. With reference to G. W. F. Hegel's and like-minded thinkers' 'theo–logic' that negotiates Christ's mediation and immanent dialectics, Feiler identifies the logic and problem of mediation as the core concern of political ethics. Feiler unites five representative authors from now disparate strands of contemporary just war ethics, testing whether they offer a meaningful possibility of mediation and subsequent reconciliation: a sovereign realist and a cosmopolitan idealist; a rationalist individualist, an idealist Christian ethicist, and finally, an evangelical theologian. Opening the just war debate for comparative critical engagement, Feiler creates a fascinating study that locates a “dynamic point” at which faithful, free political action can be wrestled from irony, tragedy, and melancholic inertia in the face of totalitarian suffocation.