Just War as Christian Discipleship: Recentering the Tradition in the Church Rather Than the State

This provocative and timely primer on the just war tradition connects just war to the concrete practices and challenges of the Christian life. Daniel Bell explains that the point is not simply to know the just war tradition but to live it even in the face of the tremendous difficulties associated with war. He shows how just war practice, if it is to be understood as a faithful form of Christian discipleship, must be rooted in and shaped by the fundamental convictions and confessions of the faith. The book includes a foreword by an Army chaplain who has served in Iraq and study questions for group use.

Author: Daniel M. Jr. Bell
Publisher: Brazos Press
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781587432255
ISBN10: 1587432250
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology | Ethics
- Religion | Christian Ministry | Discipleship

About the Author
Daniel M. Bell Jr. (PhD, Duke University) is professor of theological ethics at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina. He has worked extensively with both retired and active duty military personnel on the just war tradition. Bell is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and the author of Liberation Theology after the End of History.

This title is not returnable