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On Earth as it is in Heaven?
The ongoing ‘Christian nationalism’ debates among the American talking class may be hyper-Twitterized and therefore increasingly wearisome, but
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Navigating the Scylla and Charybdis: Paul Ramsey and Contemporary Political Theology
Paul Ramsey was once the leading voice in Christian ethics in our country. Now, largely forgotten beyond the academy, his insights are needed more
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Natural Law and International Justice: A Moral Case for Coercive Intervention
What are the prerogatives of the sovereign state? This is a question with which international law has wrestled in recent generations. Generally,
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A Niebuhrian Companion: Over 20 Years of Mark R. Amstutz’s International Ethics
About two decades ago, I was browsing in my Dutch university’s library for a book to use in a new IR graduate course on “ethics and
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A Niebuhrian Companion: Over 20 Years of Mark R. Amstutz’s International Ethics
About two decades ago, I was browsing in my Dutch university’s library for a book to use in a new IR graduate course on “ethics and
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Whittaker Chambers’ Lenten Faith
For Christians, Lent is a forty-day period of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving – a purgatorial preparation for the joy of Easter. Lent begins on
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Christian Realism & the Iraq War
How should Christian Realism reflect on the twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War’s start? The answer is exasperatingly complex. Conventional
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Christian Realism as a Remedy for Polarization
Though nations are never completely inwardly harmonious, tensions over COVID-19, religious liberty, abortion, racism, climate change and refugees
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Law and Just War Tradition: Passing HR 1009
Though soldiers and military leaders are bound by Just War Tradition (JWT), members of Congress and civilian leaders are not. The passage of HR
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Two Cheers for McNerney’s Just War Resolution
American thinking on war has often (not always) been shaped by just war thinking, even if implicitly. Americans instinctively understand that war
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Ukraine after One Year: A Sober Assessment
Present conventional wisdom has it that the war in Ukraine has unified Western nations in unprecedented (and unanticipated) ways. After years of
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Ukraine after One Year: A Sober Assessment
Present conventional wisdom has it that the war in Ukraine has unified Western nations in unprecedented (and unanticipated) ways. After years of
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Just War 101 – E4: Spurs and Restraints: Overview of the JAB and the JIB
As should already be clear from this series’ first three essays (here, here, and here), the Christian realist just war tradition—a moral
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Just War 101 – E4: Spurs and Restraints: Overview of the JAB and the JIB
As should already be clear from this series’ first three essays (here, here, and here), the Christian realist just war tradition—a moral
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Can Ukraine Win the War?
Since the early days of Russia’s war against Ukraine, some have called for the Ukrainians to sue for peace. The initial verdict of these