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From Just War to Modern Peace Ethics (Paperback)
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From Just War to Modern Peace Ethics (Paperback)
Series: Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte
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This book rewrites the history of Christian peace ethics. Christian
reflection on reducing violence or overcoming war has roots in
ancient Roman philosophy and eventually grew to influence modern
international law. This historical overview begins with Cicero, the
source of Christian authors like Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. It
is highly debatable whether Augustine had a systematic interest in
just war or whether his writings were used to develop a systematic
just war teaching only by the later tradition. May Christians
justifiably use force to overcome disorder and achieve peace? The
book traces the classical debate from Thomas Aquinas to early
modern-age thinkers like Vitoria, Suarez, Martin Luther, Hugo
Grotius and Immanuel Kant. It highlights the diversity of the
approaches of theologians, philosophers and lawyers. Modern
cosmopolitianism and international law-thinking, it shows, are
rooted in the Spanish Scholastics, where Grotius and Kant each
found the inspiration to inaugurate a modern peace ethic. In the
20th century the tradition has taken aim not only at reducing
violence and overcoming war but at developing a constructive ethic
of peace building, as is reflected in Pope John Paul II's teaching.
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