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Christians, the State, and War - An Ancient Tradition for the Modern World (Hardcover)
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In Christians, the State, and War: An Ancient Tradition for the
Modern World, Gordon Heath argues that the pre-Constantinian
Christian testimony regarding the state's just use of violence was
remarkably uniform and that it was arguably a catholic, or
universal, tradition. More specifically, that tradition had five
interrelated and intertwined constitutive areas of consensus that
can best be understood as parts of one collective tradition. Heath
further argues that those five related areas of an early church
tradition shaped all subsequent theological developments on views
of the state, its use of violence, and the conditions of Christian
participation in said violence. Whereas the sorry and sordid
instances in the church's history related to violence were times
when the church drifted from those convictions of consensus, the
cases when Christians had a more stellar record of responding to
the horrors of the world were times when they lived up to them.
Consequently, the way forward today is for Christians to forgo
beginning with the just war-pacifist debate, and, instead, to begin
by letting their views on war and peace be shaped by that ancient
tradition.
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