Virtue of War: Reclaiming the Classic Christian Traditions East and West

by Darrell Cole, Alexander F.C. Webster

Overview

A powerful, genuinely ecumenical, meticulously documented, incontrovertible case on behalf of the moral teachings known to Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestants as the justifiable work traditions. Tis book provides a firm biblical, theological and historical foundation for that confidence and is an answer to the Christian peace movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781928653172
Publisher:	Regina Orthodox Press
Publication date:	07/28/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.56(w) x 8.51(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	i
1.	Civilization and Its (Terrorist) Discontents	1
2.	Divided Christendom	20
I.	Sailing from Byzantium	21
II.	Traditional Catholics and Protestants	36
3.	Orthodox Jus in Bello I: Scripture, Fathers, and Canons	54
4.	Orthodox Jus in Bello II: Saints, Liturgies, Modern Writers	78
5.	Orthodox Justifiable War and Its Critics	106
I.	A Lesser Good, Not Evil	106
II.	Lesser Morality	109
III.	What Went Wrong?	118
6.	The Roman Catholic Tradition	122
I.	St. Ambrose of Milan	122
II.	St. Augustine of Hippo	131
III.	St. Thomas Aquinas	134
7.	Protestant Reformers on the Just War	151
I.	Luther	151
II.	Calvin	154
III.	Grotius	164
8.	Opponents of Traditional Just War Thinking	169
I.	Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Realism	171
II.	Contemporary Roman Catholic Failures	179
9.	Penance, Just War, and Recent Conflicts	194
I.	Penance For Soldiering: Who and Why	195
II.	The Role of the Just War Doctrine in Penance	202
III.	Discipline in Practice: Contemporary Wars	210
	Notes	217
	Index	246