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War & Peace A Selection of Key Readings

War & Peace A Selection of Key Readings

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Publisher T&T Clark
Year 01/11/2003
Pages 120
Version paperback
Readership level General/trade
Language English
ISBN 9780567089731
Categories Christian theology
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A selection of key writings on the problem of war and peace. Introduces students to general issues in ethics and moral theology. Key contributors from around the world. This reader samples a wide range of modern moral and religious discussions on the subject of war and peace. In addition to providing material on pacifism, the just war debate, the nuclear option, genocide, and the concept of a holy war, it introduces students to general issues in ethics and moral theology, using the morality of war as a powerful and pertinent worked example. Contributors include Elizabeth Anscombe, George Bell, Charles Curran, Y. Harkabi, Richard Harries, Stanley Hauerwas, Paul Ramsey, W. Montgomery Watt, Rowan Williams.

War & Peace A Selection of Key Readings

Table of contents

Preface; Introduction: Reading the Readings; 1. The Context: Theology and Ethics; 1.1 Christian Ethics in Context; 1.2 Consequential Talk; 1.3...and the Bible; 1.4...and Love; 1.5 Moral Objectivity and Moral Mistakes; 1.6 The Bible and Moral Norms; 1.7 Sin and Idealism; 1.8 Moral Exceptions?; 1.9 Sin and Hard Choices; 1.10 The Theological Context of Christian; Ethics; 1.11 Working it out in Christ; 2. Peace and Pacifism; 2.1 Jesus the Pacifist?; 2.2 The Context of New Testament Teaching; 2.3 The Meaning of Peace; 2.4 A Pacifist Church?; 3. The Just war and the Nuclear Option; 3.1 Justifying War; 3.2 Some Principles; 3.3 Nuclear War and Nuclear Deterrence; 3.4 Judgement and Revelation; 4. Holy Wars and Holy Tolerance; 4.1 Jihad in Islam; 4.2 The Qur'anic Texts; 4.3 Muslim-Christian Relations; 4.4 Islam and Peace; 4.5 Arab and Jew; 4.6 Jews and Christians; 4.7 Toleration and Religious Freedom; 4.8 Approaching Other Faiths; 4.9 Anonymous Christians?; Religion and Genocide: The Continuing Issue; Some Explanatory notes on Islam; Further Reading; Topics for Discussion and Study; Acknowledgements; Index of Subjects; Index of Names

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