Charles, J. Daryl,  1950- <br/><br/>
Between pacifism and Jihad :  just war and Christian tradition / 
J. Daryl Charles. 
 - Downers Grove, Ill. :  InterVarsity Press,  2005. 
 - 196 p. :  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-193) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0830827722 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005000231 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>War--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines.<br/>Just war doctrine--History.<br/>War--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Just war doctrine.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BT736.2  / CHA 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>261.8/73