Christians and War: A Brief History Reimer A. James
Christians and War: A Brief History Reimer A. James Religion, and specifically Christianity, has often been blatantly invoked to support or oppose war and violence of all kinds. His thoughtful survey…
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Christians and War: A Brief History Reimer A. James
Religion, and specifically Christianity, has often been blatantly invoked to support or oppose war and violence of all kinds. His thoughtful survey of Christian teachings and practices on issues of war, violence, and the state takes readers from classical Greco-Roman times to postmodernity. Christians are deeply divided over whether and when such violence is justifiable.James Reimer offers a fair presentation of these controversial standpoints, including the classical Christian attitudes toward war: crusading or holy war, just war, and pacifism.
Arguing that the church's responses to war can only be understood through the church's changing relationship to culture, Reimer concludes with an analysis of the contemporary debate and proposes criteria for legitimate and illegitimate use of force by nation-states.Through confronting the Christian church's history, which is
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