The American search for peace : moral reasoning, religious hope, and national security / essays by James F. Childress [and others] ; with conversations reported by Alberto R. Coll ; edited by George Weigel and John P. Langan.
Contributor(s): Childress, James F
| Coll, Alberto R | Weigel, George | Langan, John
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TextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: xii, 281 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0878405070 (alk. paper); 0878405194 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Peace -- Religious aspects -- Congresses | National security -- United States -- Congresses | Religious ethics -- Congresses | United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy -- Congresses | United States -- Military policy -- Religious aspects -- Congresses | Religion and international relations -- Congresses | Just war doctrine -- Congresses | Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- Congresses | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989 -- CongressesDDC classification: 172/.42 LOC classification: BL65.P4 | A44 1991Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Revised papers presented at a seminar held 1987-1988.
Includes bibliographical references.
The national interest and the national purpose : from policy debate to moral argument / George Weigel -- Moral reasoning and national security / John P. Langan -- The just war idea and the American search for peace / James Turner Johnson -- Contemporary pacifism : its major types and possible contributions to discourse about war / James F. Childress -- Intervention and international affairs : a normative and empirical assessment / J. Bryan Hehir -- Community, morality, and survival : religious dimensions of the ethics of war and peace / Robin W. Lovin -- Refocusing the ethical agenda : political settlement as an alternative to the use of force / John P. Langan, and Harold Saunders.
The role of the churches in the American search for peace / David Hollenbach -- Afterword / John P. Langan.