Both of these developments in the actual
face of
war need to be taken seriously and integrated into a contemporary moral assessment of
war based on a recovery of the classic meaning of the just
war tradition.
Most recently, they have sought to wrestle — together with people of other faiths — with the awful issues everyone must confront today - nuclear
war, hunger, disease, the despoiling of the ecosphere — and to reach into the various
traditions as possible sources of values and visions for
facing such horrors.