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Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition Mark Douglas

Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition By Mark Douglas

Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition by Mark Douglas


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Explicates the way the Christian just war tradition shaped modernity and modernity's blindness to the interpenetration of nature and politics. This book sits uniquely at the intersection of just war thinking, environmental history, and theological ethics.

Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition Summary

Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition by Mark Douglas

In this volume, Mark Douglas presents an environmental history of the Christian just war tradition. Focusing on the transition from its late medieval into its early modern form, he explores the role the tradition has played in conditioning modernity and generating modernity's blindness to interactions between 'the natural' and 'the political.' Douglas criticizes problematic myths that have driven conventional narratives about the history of the tradition and suggests a revised approach that better accounts for the evolution of that tradition through time. Along the way, he provides new interpretations of works by Francisco de Vitoria and Hugo Grotius, and, provocatively, the Constitution of the United States of America. Sitting at the intersection of just war thinking, environmental history, and theological ethics, Douglas's book serves as a timely guide for responses to wars in a warming world as they increasingly revolve around the flashpoints of religion, resources, and refugees.

About Mark Douglas

Mark Douglas is Professor of Christian Ethics at Columbia Theological Seminary. The author of Christian Pacifism for an Environmental Age, his work has been supported by the Nohria Family Charitable Fund and the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton.

Table of Contents

1. Engaging the other: Francisco de Vitoria and the Age of Conquest; 2. Understanding the self: Hugo Grotius and the birth of the secular; 3. Shaping the state: the U.S. constitution as Christian just war document; 5. Christian just war thinking and modernity; 6. Historical roots and roads not taken: an environmental history of the Christian just war tradition; 7. Re-narrating the Christian just war tradition.

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NPB9781009098939
9781009098939
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Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition by Mark Douglas
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2022-05-26
350
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