Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 312
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978-0-7425-6560-9 • eBook • August 2008 • $49.76 • (£38.00)
Davis Brown is director of the Just War Theory Project for the Academic Council on the United Nations System, an international institute of scholars and practitioners that reevaluate the role of war, intervention, and rebellion. He is also an attorney and has been a visiting scholar at George Washington University.
Chapter 1
Chapter I. Introduction
Chapter 2
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 3
Chapter 2. The Place of War in Modern Christian Thought
Chapter 4
Chapter 3. The Historical Development of Just War Theory
Chapter 5
Chapter II. Just War Criteria
Chapter 6
Chapter 4. Proper Authority
Chapter 7
Chapter 5. Just Cause
Chapter 8
Chapter 6. Right Intention
Chapter 9
Chapter 7. Proportionality of Cause
Chapter 10
Chapter 8. Reasonable Prospect of Success
Chapter 11
Chapter 9. Last Resort
Chapter 12
Chapter 10. Just Means
Chapter 13
Chapter III. Modern Challenges to the Christian Just War Tradition
Chapter 14
Chapter 11. Just Rebellion
Chapter 15
Chapter 12. Humanitarian Intervention
Chapter 16
Chapter 13. Nuclear War
Chapter 17
Chapter 14. Conclusion
In a context marked by an increasingly broad?and too often badly understood?use of just war language and concepts in a variety of academic fields, Davis Brown's The Sword, the Cross, and the Eagle offers a thoughtful and suggestive focusing of the just war idea by reference to its roots in Christian thought and ethics. The book then applies the resulting conception to three of the most important contemporary problems for the ethics of war: the questions of just rebellion, humanitarian intervention,and nuclear war. Its contributions on both the level of theory and practical application make it a substantive contribution to the ongoing debate over ethics and war, one that should be digested and taken seriously by anyone engaged with these issues...
— James Turner Johnson, professor of religion, Rutgers University, author of Morality and Contemporary Warfare and other works on the ideas of just war
Brown offers a clear, comprehensive introduction to the Christian just war tradition....Recommended. Two-star review.....
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Davis Brown distinguishes the Christian just war tradition, which values justice over peace, from the comparative perversities of modern international law, which appears to value peace over justice. This book makes a significant contribution to the literature in its attempt to reclaim the idea of a just, offensive war. The author makes use of the most important primary sources and elucidates that material in a reader-friendly way that cannot help but impress....
— Darrell Cole