Sentences with phrase «war tradition»

T. R. Hobbs, who sees the New Testament as «transforming» the holy war tradition of the Old, finds in the «helpless figure» of the slain Lamb, standing as the meaning of history, the completion of the transformation.8

Against this view, the just war tradition maintains that even wrong belief does not deprive humans of their rights, and even a religious rationale does not justify wrong means.

The just war tradition does serve, some of the time, as an agenda, a checklist of questions which it is fitting to ask in considering war.

The just war tradition makes theological sense as an expression of the character of communities concerned daily with justice and with loving our near and distant neighbors.

It would be a good thing if the pope would acknowledge the just war tradition while making his impassioned pleas for peace.

First Things editor R.R. Reno has consistently argued against intervening in Syria, but I believe a classical reading of the just war tradition renders robust intervention in Syria a morally desirable act of charity.

As distinguished from people holding to pacifism or the «holy war,» people holding to the just war tradition claim to make decisions on the empirically knowable facts of the case.

When held to honestly, the just war tradition agrees with pacifism in rejecting these three views.

A church that seeks to embody and not merely argue about the just war tradition faces two immediate challenges.

This change makes the availability of usable nonsectarian language like that of the just war tradition all the more necessary, because there must be debate.

What is either right or wrong is that punctual decision, based upon the facts of the case at just that instant, and the just war tradition delivers the criteria for adjudicating that decision.

Many people suggest that this new context renders the just war tradition obsolete: its restraints are unsuited for the demands of combat characterized by evasion and small - scale fighting in civilian terrain.

This question of «right authority» in the just war tradition seems to me especially important in considering the phenomenon of terrorism.

Though the just war tradition permits a limited resort to arms, it rejects an «anything goes» approach to violence.

The just war tradition continues to provide helpful set of serious moral issues concerning war and peace The misuse and abuse of that tradition, however, are among the most terrible facts of political, and religious, history.

It's also part of what advocates of the Just War tradition argue fulfills the obligation to love one's neighbor.

The just war tradition came into being during the Middle Ages as a way of thinking about the right use of force in the context of responsible government of the political community.

The Guild Wars tradition of Wintersday carries on in Guild Wars 2, which begins tomorrow and continues through January 3rd, 2013.

In his December 10, 2009, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, President Barack Obama offered a vigorous defense of the just war tradition in response to problems of evil and injustice in the world.

Isaiah 59 belongs squarely in the old holy war tradition.

At the national level, we get editorial or ecclesial statements of at best a few paragraphs which present the just war tradition as a tidy checklist of criteria for evaluating a conflict.

Against this, the just war tradition maintains that moral accountability and the possibility of restraint do not end when war looms.

She concluded that the just war tradition does not throw «insuperable barriers» to a war on Iraq.

Back in Rome, Vatican officials are urging caution and citing the «last resort» criterion of the just war tradition.

First, there has rarely been such a sustained (and in many respects impressive) public grappling with the moral criteria and political logic of the just war tradition.

Thus when Hauerwas asserts that «the sword of the state is outside the perfection of Christ,» the question we want to ask from the standpoint of the just war tradition is, how can Christians allow the sword to remain outside the perfection of Christ?

For example, since he thinks he's shown that mercy is higher than justice, he concludes that the entire just - war tradition has to be rethought.

In other words, embodying the just war tradition is not simply a matter of invoking a checklist of criteria on the eve of conflict.

The full amplitude of the just war tradition would be capable of considering such components of complicity and even entrapment as part of the definition of just cause, but our public discourse has consistently described the case as if the history of Mesopotamia began in August.

Most of the time, the just war tradition is used to test a particular war (or a strategy or a weapon) for its moral and legal acceptability.

The just war tradition was not originally intended to be used in democracies.

In this regard, when we lift up before the congregation the lives of the saints who gave themselves for others and when we encourage service to those in need around us (e.g., the works of mercy) we are contributing to the formation of the kind of people on whom the just war tradition as a form of discipleship depends.

The modern, secular version of the just war tradition has effectively reduced just cause to self - defense against an unjust aggressor.

What the just war tradition is really good for is that together with pacifism it can identify and denounce the less restrained views which in fact dominate public discourse and decision - making.

In spite of the frequency with which the just war tradition is invoked and its language echoed in ecclesial speech, few Christians know about the kinds of judgments and disciplines upon which the tradition is built.