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War Doesn't Exist
I was recently listening to a talk given by Stanley Hauerwas (who is an awful speaker, despite being such an eloquent writer... which is kind of how I feel about myself--not EVEN to put my writing on his level, though), … -
The Challenge of the Non-Pacifist Christian, Part III: Training for War/Training for Peace
The following is a passage from “When War is Unjust” by John Howard Yoder: “Those who conclude, either deliberately or rapidly, that in a given situation of injustice there are no nonviolent options available, often do… -
The Challenge of the Non-Pacifist Christian, Part II: Selective Objection
Now that I’ve laid out a basic overview of the just war tradition, we can look more closely at the real meat of the matter for me: just war tradition is only useful insofar as it may end in a negative response (i.e. whe… -
The Challenge of the Non-Pacifist Christian, Part I: Alternate Positions
As I have recently been reading the book “When War Is Unjust” by John Howard Yoder, a Mennonite theologian and pacifist, I’ve learned a good deal about the just war tradition (aka just war theory). Much of the following…
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