How can some politicians, pundits, and scholars cite the principles of "just war" to defend military actions—and others to condemn those same interventions Just what is the just war tradition, and why is it important today?
Authors David D. Corey and J. Daryl Charles answer those questions in this fascinating and invaluable book. The Just War Tradition: An Introduction reintroduces the wisdom we desperately need in our foreign policy debates.
1 Tradition and the Just War
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2 Early Christian Attitudes toward Soldiering and War
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3 Origins of the Just War Tradition: Augustine
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4 Just War in the Middle Ages
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5 Martin Luther and the Tradition
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6 Calvin and Other Reformers
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7 Just War Thinking in the Early-Modern Period
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8 John Locke
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9 Immanuel Kant: Beyond Just War?
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10 Contemporary Just War Thinkers
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11 Why Have Our Churches Lost the Tradition? Two Temptations: Christian Realism, Christian Pacifism
