TY - BOOK AU - Charles,J.Daryl TI - Between pacifism and Jihad: just war and Christian tradition SN - 9780830827725 AV - BT736.C475.B489 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Downers Grove, Illinois PB - InterVarsity Press KW - War KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - History of doctrines KW - Just war doctrine KW - History N1 - 1 (pages 181-193) and index; Wrestling with a perennial issue --; Contemporary geopolitics --; Presumption against war or against injustice? --; Making moral judgments --; Religious attitudes toward war --; Just-war thinking and the terrorist threat --; Just-war thinking in ancient and medieval thought --; Pre-Christian just-war thinking --; Early Christian attitudes toward war and soldiering --; Early Christian development of just-war thinking : Ambrose and Augustine --; The medieval development of just-war thinking in Thomas Aquinas --; Just-war thinking in the late medieval and early modern period --; The Protestant Reformers on church and state and war --; Early modern thinking about international law : Vitoria, Suarez and Grotius --; Just-war thinking in the modern period to the present --; Reinhold Niebuhr --; John Courtney Murray --; Paul Ramsey --; William V. O'Brien --; Michael Walzer --; James Turner Johnson --; Jean Bethke Elshtain --; Roman Catholic social teaching --; Christian ethics and the use of force --; The personal and the political (Romans 12-13) --; Rethinking the "politics of Jesus" --; Rethinking the ethics of the New Testament --; Rethinking pacifism and the nonviolent imperative --; Rethinking neighbor love --; The morality of preemptive force --; Just-war theory : its character, constitution, and context --; Rethinking justice --; Just war's debt to natural-law thinking --; The spectrum of force : just war as a mediating position --; The moral criteria of the just-war position --; The justice of deterrence --; Retribution or revenge? --; Just-war theory and the problem of terrorism --; The nature of the terrorist threat --; Terror in the name of God --; Just war's response to terrorism --; Extending just-war thinking beyond war and terrorism : postbello considerations --; The church's worldly mission --; Christ and culture revisited --; Adjusting our eschatology and ethics --; Incarnational witness and civic duty --; The moral necessity of politics : rendering to Caesar what is Caesar's --; Taking theology seriously; 2 N2 - "Daryl Charles reconsiders the use of force to maintain or reestablish justice, showing how love for a neighbor can warrant the just use of force. Reviewing and updating the just-war teaching of the church, he shows how it captures many of the concerns of the pacifist position while deliberately avoiding the excesses of jihad and militarism."--Jacket UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip056/2005000231.html ER -