| Collation |
x, 240 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Note |
"This collection of essays is the outgrowth of a two-year workshop seminar, the Colloquium on Religion and World Affairs, held at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago"--Pref |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibiliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ethics and strategy : the views of selected strategists / J. Bryan Hehir -- The morality of nuclear deterrence : obstacles on the road to coherence / Richard B. Miller -- Ethics in distress : can there be just wars in the nuclear age? / David Hollenbach -- Bluff or revenge : the watershed in democratic deterrence awareness / John Howard Yoder -- Deterrence, defense, or war-fighting? : a just-war analysis of some recent strategic developments / James Turner Johnson -- Problems of method and moral theory in the U.S. and German Catholic pastoral letters on peace : a comparative explanation / John Langan -- Nuclear weapons and peace : political challenge and theological controversy in West German Protestantism / Trutz Rendtorff |
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Peacemaking as an ethical category : the convergence of pacifism and just war / Duane K. Friesen -- Reason and authority in church social documents : the case for plausibility and coherence / Todd Whitmore |
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Nuclear warfare -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Nuclear warfare -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Deterrence (Strategy) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Deterrence (Strategy) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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| Alt Author |
Whitmore, Todd, 1957-
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| ISBN |
0870742833 : |
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