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1 online resource (265 pages) |
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T & T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics Ser.
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T & T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics Ser.
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Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I.A Modern Investiture: National Sovereignty versus International Law -- Chapter 1. Sovereign Demonology: The State of Exception(alism) -- Chapter 2. Challenge or Twin? The Global Rule of Law Part II. Heresies: Liberal( -Marxist) and Christian Ethics of War -- Chapter 3. Machiavelli for Everyone! Human Rights Reconsidered -- Chapter 4. Christian Ethics: Paul Ramsey's Theo-Logics of War Haunted by Hegel and Nietzsche Part III. Theo-Logics of Mediation -- Chapter 5. An Eschatological Fusion -- Oliver O'Donovan's Evangelical Ethics of War -- Chapter 6. Mediations: History, Grace and Combat -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
"The modern ethics of war is a field of disparate, competing voices based on often unexplored theological and metaphysical assumptions. Therese Feiler approaches them from the borderline area between systematics, philosophical theology and religious studies. With reference to G.W.F. Hegel's and like-minded thinkers' 'theo?logic' that negotiates Christ?s mediation and immanent dialectics, Feiler identifies the logic and problem of mediation as the core concern of political ethics. Feiler unites five representative authors from now disparate strands of contemporary just war ethics, testing whether they offer a meaningful possibility of mediation and subsequent reconciliation: a sovereign realist and a cosmopolitan idealist; a rationalist individualist, an idealist Christian ethicist, and finally, an evangelical theologian. Opening the just war debate for comparative critical engagement, Feiler creates a fascinating study that locates a "dynamic point" at which faithful, free political action can be wrestled from irony, tragedy, and melancholic inertia in the face of totalitarian suffocation."-- Provided by publisher. |
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War -- Religious aspects.
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War -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Just war doctrine.
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Theology. |
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Just war doctrine |
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War -- Moral and ethical aspects |
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War -- Religious aspects |
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Print version: Feiler, Therese. Logics of War : The Use of Force and the Problem of Mediation. London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, ©2019 9780567678287 |
| ISBN |
0567678296 |
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9780567678294 (electronic bk.) |
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