[PDF] Modernity The Environment And The Christian Just War Tradition eBook

Author : Mark Douglas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1009116568

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In this volume, Mark Douglas presents an environmental history of the Christian just war tradition. Focusing on the transition from its late medieval into its early modern form, he explores the role the tradition has played in conditioning modernity and generating modernity's blindness to interactions between 'the natural' and 'the political.' Douglas criticizes problematic myths that have driven conventional narratives about the history of the tradition and suggests a revised approach that better accounts for the evolution of that tradition through time. Along the way, he provides new interpretations of works by Francisco de Vitoria and Hugo Grotius, and, provocatively, the Constitution of the United States of America. Sitting at the intersection of just war thinking, environmental history, and theological ethics, Douglas's book serves as a timely guide for responses to wars in a warming world as they increasingly revolve around the flashpoints of religion, resources, and refugees.

Author : Mark Douglas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1009098934

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Explicates the way the Christian just war tradition shaped modernity and modernity's blindness to the interpenetration of nature and politics. This book sits uniquely at the intersection of just war thinking, environmental history, and theological ethics.

Author : Mark J. Allman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666746045

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While most studies of just war focus on the rationale for going to war and the conduct of the war, this important book examines the period after the conflict. What must be done to restore justice? In the words of the authors, “’Victory’ is declared by presidents and other leaders, yet all too often no just peace is to be found in the wake of today’s conflicts. . . . After the smoke clears, the powers that be may declare ‘mission accomplished’ when, as Ezekiel long ago said, there really is no peace.”

Author : Mark J. Allman
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 157075859X

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Once the smoke of the battlefield blows away, what are the moral requirements of the "victor"? While most studies of just war focus on the rationale for going to war and the conduct of the war, this important book examines the period after the conflict. What must be done to restore justice? In the words of the authors, "`Victory' is declared by presidents and other leaders, yet all too often no just peace is to be found in the wake of today's conflicts....After the smoke clears, the powers that be may declare `mission accomplished' when, as Ezekiel long ago said, there really is no peace." "Allman and Winright provide readers with a clear, concise, balanced, and informed assessment of an important topic in debates about modern warfare: the issue of moral duties in a post-conflict situation."---Kenneth R. Himes, O.F.M., Boston College "Timely and readable...Shows us not only that nations have responsibilities after war `ends,' but also that reconstructing societies requires specific processes of restoration."---Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College

Author : Gregory Kasembeli
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,48 MB
Release : 2022
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The Just War theory was and is mainly concerned with the prevention of human conflict and has largely ignored the impact it has had on the environment. Woods brings in environmental justice and ethics and likens the environment to a non-combatant who should not be harmed. He also goes on to introduce environmental ethics and environmental justice where the former refers to the ethical relationships between people and non-human nature and the latter is the ethical and political relationship between people and non-human nature. He goes on to observe that concentration has been largely placed on the environment being the cause of conflict in terms of the resources it holds rather than the conflict causing adverse effects on the environment.

Author : United States Marine Corps Command and S
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2015-04-08
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ISBN : 9781511635585

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Warfare in the modern era is especially destructive and has the potential to be worse in the years to come, which encouraged-Catl: lolic_writers_aod_tbiokers_to_ask.que"stio_ns_ab_o_u_tbow to __ aRpl}' the Just War tradition in the modern ag ___ .:: During the Twentieth Century the world endured two horribly destructive wars in Europe, which cost the lives of millions I and arguably broke the backs of the European powers. The Pacific theater of war was brought to conclusion by the ! employment of two nuclear bombs on two separate Japanese cities and ushered in the nuclear age and the Cold War. While superpowers avoided a direct peer-on-peer war, the Cold War manifested itself in smaller conflicts throughout Asia and eentrai-America-and-cultivated-fear-and-suspicin-among-the-world-population-brought-about-by-the-arms-race.--- ----- Once the Cold war was over, the proliferation of weapons and the problem of terrorism was prevalent. These conditions, which were exacerbated by high profile terrorist attacks, notably, the September 11, 2001 attacks on the twin towers, inspired a variety of different interpretations of the proper direction of the Just War tradition, because the circumstances revealed lethal types of warfare not present during the original formulation of the tradition. Three prominent points of view-are at work-in modern Catholic thought. -They.are.notthe result of the September J.Lattacks, but the_ events_ of __ _ - modern warfare provide a useful context for the necessity of developing a deeper understanding of the Just War tradition. One prevailing idea is the notion of pacifism . Another can be referred to as the 'presumption against war', which is not quite pacifist, but has a powerful disposition against the use of violence. A third idea can be referred to as tlle presumRtion for justice', which does not relish the use of force; however, it asserts the concept that sometimes war I is necessary in order to protect the common good. War is horrible and destructive and it is important to understand its moral context in order to develop clarity for decision making regarding war."

Author : John Howard Yoder
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441207988

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John Howard Yoder was one of the major theologians of the late twentieth century. Before his death, he planned the essays and structure of this book, which he intended to be his last work. Now two leading interpreters of Yoder bring that work to fruition. The book is divided into three sections: pacifism, just war theory, and just peacemaking theory. The volume crystallizes Yoder's argument that his proposed ethics is not sectarian and a matter of withdrawal. He also clearly argues that Christian just war and Christian pacifist traditions are basically compatible--and more specifically, that the Christian just war tradition itself presumes against all violence.

Author : Lisa Sowle Cahill
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 2019-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1506457797

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This book is a contribution to the Christian ethics of war and peace. It advances peacebuilding as a needed challenge to and expansion of the traditional framework of just war theory and pacifism. It builds on a critical reading of historical landmarks from the Bible through Augustine, Aquinas, the Reformers, Christian peace movements, and key modern figures like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr, and recent popes. Similar to just-war theory, peacebuilding is committed to social change and social justice but includes some theorists and practitioners who accept the use of force in extreme cases of self-defense or humanitarian intervention. Unlike just-war theorists, they do not see the justification of war as part of the Christian mission. Unlike traditional pacifists, they do see social change as necessary and possible and, as such, requiring Christian participation in public efforts. Cahill argues that transformative Christian social participation is demanded by the gospel and the example of Jesus, and can produce the avoidance, resolution, or reduction of conflicts. And yet obstacles are significant, and expectations must be realistic. Decisions to use armed force against injustice, even when they meet the criteria of just war, will be ambiguous and tragic from a Christian perspective. Regarding war and peace, the focus of Christian theology, ethics, and practice should not be on justifying war but on practical and hopeful interreligious peacebuilding.