Sentences with phrase «against pacifism»

This objection brings us near the heart of the theological argument against pacifism.

At the beginning of World War II he developed the fullest argument in the American church against pacifism.

Not exact matches

Joining the continuing debate over whether pacifism and just war doctrine share a prima facie «presumption against war» are Helmut David Baer of the University of Texas and Joseph Capizzi of the Catholic University of America.

Back in the 1940's, when Reinhold Niebuhr started Christianity in Crisis to support the war against Nazism, he abandoned his earlier pacifism, and his earlier too - simply pious way of wishing evil away, and called for a new tough - minded Christian realism.

No high - minded just war theory juxtaposed against the simple pieties of pacifism.

Such an interpretation magnifies the evils to be expected from a resort to force, regardless of any arguments for the justice of the cause, and thus transforms the presumption against war into a functional pacifism.

I am disappointed that no one has significantly challenged the case I made for the moral significance of war in Against the Nations — except for Paul Ramsey in his wonderful book Speak Up for Just War or Pacifism.

And there's the beautifully pure Pacifism, in which players must simply survive against an onslaught of enemies without firing a shot.

It was the soft left that got most bothered by nuclear power, for reasons that had more to do with pacifism and the thought that the USSR might one day use nuclear weapons against the US, or someone else might get involved in an exchange like India and Pakistan or S Africa.