War A Primer for Christians
War: A Primer for Christians by Joseph L. Allen, published by Texas A&M University Press in August 2014, offers a concise introduction to the various approaches Christians have taken toward war. This reprint edition spans 80 pages and is presented in English. The book critically examines perspectives ranging from those who view wars as righteous crusades to pacifists who oppose any form of violence, as well as the just-war tradition, which argues for the conditional justification of war while emphasizing the importance of Christian love in its conduct.
Readers will find a thoughtful exploration of these differing viewpoints, along with an updated preface and a new afterword that address contemporary international relations relevant to the topic of war. Allen’s work aims to stimulate further discussion and debate regarding the ethical implications of warfare within the Christian context, making it a significant contribution to the fields of religion, ethics, and philosophy.
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War: A Primer for Christians provides a concise introduction to the main approaches that Christians have taken toward war and examines each approach critically.
Some Christians have supported their country’s wars as crusades of good against evil. Others, as pacifists, have rejected participation in or support for any war. Still others have followed the just-war tradition in holding that it can be justifiable under some conditions to resort to war, but that then Christian love must limit the conduct of war.
In an updated preface and new afterword, Allen explores aspects of current international relations that have a special bearing on the context of war.
“Joseph Allen’s War: A Primer for Christians is just that: a succinct, fair-minded, wonderfully reasoned, and accessible account of the major Christian traditions on war—Just War, Holy War, and the Pacifist renunciation of violence. His book is also a primer in the further sense, that it will prime the pump for further discussion and debate as to when wars are just and how a nation might keep the means employed under restraints.”—William F. May
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