War : a primer for Christians /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Texas A&M University Press edition. |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10986806 |
Table of Contents:
- Is war a crusade?
- Some expressions of a crusade approach
- The convictions and logic of the crusade
- Strengths and weaknesses of a crusade approach
- The pacifist standpoint
- Pacifism in the Christian tradition
- The convictions and logic of pacifism
- Strengths and weaknesses of a Christian pacifist
- Just-war thinking
- The Christian just-war tradition
- Underlying convictions of just-war thinking
- Just-war criteria
- Strengths and weaknesses of Christian just-war thinking
- What can we do?
- General observations
- Some responses Christians can make
- Afterword
- The present international situation
- Some implications for moral reflection about war.