Ploughshares into Swords? St. Augustine’s Ethics of Political Violence

St. Augustine’s efforts to reconcile Christ’s teaching with the requirements of statecraft led him to became the founder of a theory of comparative justice we now call just war. Just war was designed to limit the nature and scope of imperial Roman warfare. Post-Constantine Christian attitudes to the...

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Main Author: Gorry, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2011
In: Religion compass
Year: 2011, Volume: 5, Issue: 12, Pages: 753-762
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