Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition

ISBN-13: 9781009098939 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Mark Douglas

Opis

Explicates the way the Christian just war tradition shaped modernity and modernity's blindness to the interpenetration of nature and politics.

Recenzje

'This is a thorough, well-researched study of the evolution of just war theory from its Greek and Roman beginnings through its refinement in Christian history and its secular expression in international law. … Recommended.' C. L. Kammer, Choice

Spis treści

1. Engaging the other: Francisco de Vitoria and the Age of Conquest; 2. Understanding the self: Hugo Grotius and the birth of the secular; 3. Shaping the state: the U.S. constitution as Christian just war document; 5. Christian just war thinking and modernity; 6. Historical roots and roads not taken: an environmental history of the Christian just war tradition; 7. Re-narrating the Christian just war tradition.