Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War: Religious and Secular Concepts, 1200-1740 (Princeton Legacy Library, 1533) - Hardcover

Johnson, James Turner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691072094 ISBN 13: 9780691072098

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1975

Synopsis

The fundamental aims of this book are two: to explore the interaction between religion and secular society in the formation as well as the dissolution of just war doctrine; and to investigate just war doctrine as an ideological pattern of thought, expressive of a greater ideology.

The author reconstructs the development of classic just war doctrine, showing it to be a product of secular and religious forces. From it he traces the growth of the doctrines of holy war and of modern just war. He demonstrates that the blending of two distinct traditions in the late Middle Ages has its counterpart in the century following the Reformation. The secularized just war doctrine exemplified in the writings of Grotius, Locke, and Vattel are related to the problems of war in our time.

Originally published in 1975.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0691072094
• ISBN 13: 9780691072098
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304