Stevenson Craig Thomas (3 results)

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Hardcover. xii, 180 p.; 19 cm. Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- I. Introduction: 1. The meaning of war; 2. The meaning of peace -- II. Jesus and the ethic of love: 1. The Kingdom of God; 2. The inadequacy of judicial violence; 3. The duty of non-resistance; 4. The rejection of war -- III. Augustine and the temporal order: 1. The two cities; 2. The necessity of judicial violence; 3. The duty of resistance; 4. The rediscovery of the just war -- IV. Luther and human sinfulness: 1. The two kingdoms; 2. The use of legal penalties; 3. Against insurrection; 4. War as a corrective of sin -- V. Grotius and the coming of reason: 1. The reign of law; 2. The value of a penal system; 3. The issue of private war; 4. National war and arbitration -- VI. Conclusion: 1. Current Christian attitudes (a) Synopticism, (b) Catholicism, (c) Evangelicalism, (d) Liberalism; 2. Towards a Christian international order -- Bibliography -- Index. -- `But however black the international situation may be, and however disunited the Church may show itself, the liberal Christian is not wholly despondent. He believes that his principles are in accordance with ultimate Reality, and that, if not now then in coming generations, and as the fruit of much patient labour, those principles will be realised in the conduct of disputes between the nations of the world. And as an immediate task, as the essential means of establishing intrnational law, he will work for a truly international court and an effective international police-army.' (p. 173 f.) Fair boards (Peace Book Club), backstrip torn away.…

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