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- Source: NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, Volume 57, Issue 2, Apr 2003, p. 89 - 107
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- 01 Apr 2003
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Abstract
Abstract
Few concepts in the history of Christian theology have had such a lasting impact on contemporary political thinking as the doctrine of the just (or justifiable) war. In this contribution, I try to identify the meaning of the just war tradition as opposed to its two foremost competitors: a political pacifism and a crusader approach. After describing each of these theories, I draw upon the British-Indian philosopher Chandran Kukathas to explain the nature of pluralism. In the last section, I use the pacifism of John Howard Yoder in an attempt to retrace the proper meaning and explanation of just war thinking as being a strategic elaboration of the pacifism of Jesus and the early church in the context of a complex and fallen world.
© Theo Boer