From Just War to Modern Peace Ethics

Published by De Gruyter 2012

From Just War to Modern Peace Ethics

Edited by: Heinz-Gerhard Justenhoven and William A. Barbieri, Jr.

Volume 120 in the series Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110291926

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About this book

This book rewrites the history of Christian peace ethics. Christian reflection on reducing violence or overcoming war has roots in ancient Roman philosophy and eventually grew to influence modern international law. This historical overview begins with Cicero, the source of Christian authors like Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. It is highly debatable whether Augustine had a systematic interest in just war or whether his writings were used to develop a systematic just war teaching only by the later tradition. May Christians justifiably use force to overcome disorder and achieve peace? The book traces the classical debate from Thomas Aquinas to early modern-age thinkers like Vitoria, Suarez, Martin Luther, Hugo Grotius and Immanuel Kant. It highlights the diversity of the approaches of theologians, philosophers and lawyers. Modern cosmopolitianism and international law-thinking, it shows, are rooted in the Spanish Scholastics, where Grotius and Kant each found the inspiration to inaugurate a modern peace ethic. In the 20th century the tradition has taken aim not only at reducing violence and overcoming war but at developing a constructive ethic of peace building, as is reflected in Pope John Paul II’s teaching.

Author / Editor information

Heinz-Gerhard Justenhoven, Institute for Theology and Peace, Hamburg, Germany; William A. Barbieri, Jr., The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA.

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From Just War to Modern Peace Ethics: An Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Cicero: Just War in Classical Antiquity Andrea Keller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Augustine’s Theology of Peace and the Beginning of Christian Just War Theory Roland Kany Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Augustine: Peace Ethics and Peace Policy Johannes Brachtendorf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Thomas Aquinas and Humanitarian Intervention Gerhard Beestermöller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Forerunners of Humanitarian Intervention? From Canon Law to Francisco de Vitoria James Muldoon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Francisco de Vitoria: Just War as Defense of International Law Heinz-Gerhard Justenhoven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Martin Luther on Peace and War: A Systematic Approach Volker Stümke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Morality and Just War According to Francisco Suárez Markus Kremer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Suárez, Aquinas, and the Just War: Self Defense or Punishment? James Bernard Murphy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Hugo Grotius: Just War Thinking Between Theology and International Law Christoph Stumpf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Kant’s Cosmopolitanism: Resource for Shaping a “Just Peace” Philip J. Rossi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Kant and the Just War Tradition Thomas Mertens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
The Holy See as International Person and Sovereign and Participant in International Law Robert Araujo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
From an Ethics of War to an Ethics of Peacebuilding Gerard F. Powers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
The Peace Ethics of Pope John Paul II Heinz-Gerhard Justenhoven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
List of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 353
Keywords: Just War Tradition; Peace Ethics; Peace Building; International Law; Moral Theology

eBook

Published: October 1, 2012
ISBN: 9783110291926

Hardcover

Published: September 14, 2012
ISBN: 9783110291773

Paperback

Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9783110488487