Sentences with phrase «war theory»

The tradition of just war theory has attempted to formulate such constraints in one how and when states can go to war.

Whereas «The Challenge of Peace» offered an extensive discussion of conscientious citizen objection to unjust uses of government power, Pavlischek instead emphasized the role of just war theory in statecraft and military planning.

Pavlischek and others view their version of just war theory as the classic tradition and treat a soft just war position as an unfortunate corruption.

Our realization that the just war theory provides no justification for nuclear weapons or nuclear warfare has involved painful reappraisal, a «shaking of the foundations.»

We wrap our brains around some of the numerous Star Wars theories...

Pavlischek's hard just war theory reflects no yearning for the establishment of an international governing authority.

Far from relegating war to the twilight of our moral and political imagination (where war would necessarily assume a logic of its own) just war theory seeks to domesticate war by relating it to politics.»

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

A struggle against groups that fly jetliners into buildings requires the steely resolve that hard just war theory contributes.

Oakes appears to think that the American Catholic populace - at - large (including, presumably, him and me) is relieved from having opinions or making judgments about the justness of a particular act of war contemplated by our country because the classical just war theory permits those judgments only to statesmen and generals.

As provisions of the just - war theory passed into the developing corpus of international law in the 17th century, they retained their categorical or absolutist character.

Pacifism and just - war theory reach different conclusions only in a narrow range of cases: both positions insist that Christians must strive always for healing and reconciliation and must act out of love for all, and both traditions unequivocally condemn the reasons — whether nationalism, territorial or economic gain, revenge or glory — for which nearly all wars have been fought.

The fans have a heck of an imagination when it comes to the MCU, but some of their crazy Infinity War theories just might come true!

Designed to coincide with the study of Just war Theory at GCSE, but not exclusive.

This is a lesson on the Just War theory which was judged as OUTSTANDING by Ofsted and the students really enjoyed it.

The next one will be more powerful after the next, hence my new Pony car war theory.

In his letter Bryce Sibley suggests that this requires me to reject not just the death penalty but just - war theory as well.

Just war theory provides us with several principles that limit what is morally permissible in war.

Therefore, as is the case in Christian just - war theory, in which the power to declare war is carefully limited to governments, in Islamic law only legitimate Islamic governments can declare a jihad, not individuals or nonstate actors.

This is the version of just - war theory that policy makers employ to justify resorting to force when considerations other than equal regard have already decided matters.

Contending that the empire option dramatically compromises the gospel vision of peace, Nelson - Pallmeyer jettisons just - war theory and advocates reclaiming Jesus» radical model of nonviolence, He challenges Christians to reject militarism and those aspects of their religious tradition that encourage or endorse violence, and he presents nonviolent alternatives that refuse to sanction violence as part of Cod's providential care of the world.

If just - war theory is in poor repute today it is because it has been pressed into service to justify war rather than to prevent or restrain it; rather than being used to advance the cause of peace or justice, the theory has often provided a quickly accessible patina of moral justifiability to disguise aggression and expansionist policy.

«Just war theory, precisely by bringing moral considerations to bear, seeks to politicize war, and to politicize war is to civilize it.

I appreciate Joseph Bottum's noble sentiments, but I wonder how his principle that «Jesus turned all our stories inside out,... especially the old, old ones about blood and blood's repayment,» which he applies to capital punishment, would apply to the story of war and just - war theory.

Writing in the Journal of Religious Ethics, they make clear enough, as it used to be said, where they are coming from: «Just war theory is properly understood as an expression of a tradition in Christian political thought that can broadly be described as Augustinian.

No modern democracy can march to war for «high cosmic justice,» but other reasons may exist and identifying those is the task of just - war theory.

Most churches, while supporting those individuals as individuals, have opted for just war theory.

This position is not to be confused with statements of just - war theory.

The just war theory and the American churches» endorsement of the military represent a faithless capitulation.

If the just war theory is to mean anything at all, the church must not abdicate its just war decisions to the state.

Is «Just War Theory» Christian in thought, word, and deed?

This was probably the smallest group, and not only because most Christians adhere to «Just War Theory»;