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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, 2005.Description: 196 p. : 23 cmISBN:
  • 0830827722 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.8/73 22
LOC classification:
  • BT736.2 CHA 2005
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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.
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BT 712 RAT 1996 The battle of beginnings : BT 732.7 RIC 2014 Suffering and the search for meaning : BT 736.2 BEL 2009 Just war as Christian discipleship : BT 736.2 CHA 2005 Between pacifism and Jihad : BT 738 GIL 2012 Sociological theology / BT 767.8 AND 2014 Reclaiming participation : BT 972 JON 1998 Friends of God and prophets :

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

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.

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