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The Horrors We Bless

Rethinking the Just-War Legacy
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Is war inevitable? Is it so woven into the fabric of our being that it always was and always will be? "Early Christians," says Maguire, "were unanimous in opposing this view." They didn't see war as normal but an outrage and even a sacrilege. Maguire argues that later Christians succumbed to the supposed "normalcy" of war and developed what later became known as the "just-war theory," which was actually devised as a deterrent to the rush to war.
Daniel C Maguire is Professor of Ethics at Marquette University in Wisconsin. Among his many books are A Moral Creed for All Christians, Sacred Energies and Sacred Choices.
1. What Is War? 2. The Strengths and Weaknesses of Just-War Theory 3. War: Is It Necessarily So? 4. Violence: Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?
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