Thomas Aquinas on war and peace /Gregory M. Reichberg, Peace Research Institute of Oslo.

Reichberg, Gregory M.,

Thomas Aquinas on war and peace /Gregory M. Reichberg, Peace Research Institute of Oslo. - New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Just war in Aquinas's typology of the virtues -- Just war among the quaestiones on charity -- War's permissibility -- Interpreting the gospel precepts of patience -- Military prudence -- Battlefield courage -- Selected topics -- Legitimate authority -- War and punishment -- Self-defense -- Preventive war -- The moral equality of combatants -- St. Thomas and the doctrine of Bellum Iustum today.



9781316680926


Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.


Just war doctrine.
War--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Peace--Religious aspects--Christianity.


Electronic Books.

B765 / .T466 2017