Just War As Christian Discipleship Recentering the Tradition in the Church Rather Than the State

Name: Just War As Christian Discipleship Recentering the Tradition in the Church Rather Than the State
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ISBN: 9781587432255

ISBN-10: 1587432250

ISBN-13: 9781587432255

Edition: 2009

Authors: Daniel M. Bell, Scott Sterling

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This provocative and timely primer on the just war tradition connects just war to the concrete practices and challenges of the Christian life. Daniel Bell explains that the point is not simply to know the just war tradition but to live it even in the face of the tremendous difficulties associated with war. He shows how just war practice, if it is to be understood as a faithful form of Christian discipleship, must be rooted in and shaped by the fundamental convictions and confessions of the faith. The book includes a foreword by an Army chaplain who has served in Iraq and study questions for group use.

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Brazos Press
Publication date: 10/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 6.50" wide x 8.94" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Daniel M. Bell Jr. (PhD, Duke University) is professor of theological ethics at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina. He is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and the author of Just War as Christian Discipleship and Liberation Theology after the End of History.



Foreword



Acknowledgements


Introduction: Living Faithfully in a Time of War



Love and Evil in the Christian Life: The Emergence of just War



Can War Be Just? A Brief History of Just War



Just War as Christian Discipleship: Presuppositions and Presumptions



Who's in Charge? Legitimate Authority



Why Fight? Just Cause



Why Fight? Right Intent



When Fight? Last Resort and Reasonable Change of Sucess



How Fight? Discrimination and Proportionality


Conclusion: Spirituality and Just War


Appendix: Two Just War Traditions


Notes


Reference List


Index