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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.
Both classical and modern accounts of justice largely overlook the
question of how the communities within which justice applies are
constituted in the first place. This book addresses that problem,
arguing that we need to accord a place to the theory of
'constitutive justice' alongside traditional categories of
distributive and commutative justice.
Both classical and modern accounts of justice largely overlook the
question of how the communities within which justice applies are
constituted in the first place. This book addresses that problem,
arguing that we need to accord a place to the theory of
'constitutive justice' alongside traditional categories of
distributive and commutative justice.
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.
This volume presents an integrated collection of constructive
essays by eminent Catholic scholars addressing the new challenges
and opportunities facing religious believers under shifting
conditions of secularity and "post-secularity."Using an innovative
"keywords" approach, At the Limits of the Secular is an
interdisciplinary effort to think through the implications of
secular consciousness for the role of religion in public affairs.
The book responds in some ways to Charles Taylor's magnum opus, A
Secular Age, although it also stands on its own. It features an
original essay by David Tracy -- the most prominent American
Catholic theologian writing today -- and groundbreaking
contributions by influential younger theologians such as Peter
Casarella, William Cavanaugh, and Vincent
Miller.CONTRIBUTORSWilliam A. Barbieri Jr.Peter CasarellaWilliam T.
CavanaughMichele DillonMary DoakAnthony J. GodziebaSlavica
JakelicJ. Paul MartinVincent J. MillerPhilip J. RossiRobert J.
SchreiterDavid Tracy
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