The Just War: An American Reflection on the Morality of War in Our TimeWar, Peter Temes writes, is always wrong but sometimes necessary. With that principle at its center, this book offers a critical history of just war thinking, beginning with ancient epics and extending through American responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. |
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... Hebrew Bible ) , or a man who stands over his son in a public place , a knife to the boy's throat because he believes that God's voice is commanding , " Kill him , " as Abraham believed . The Hebrew Bible , particularly in Deuteronomy ...
... Hebrew Bible ) , or a man who stands over his son in a public place , a knife to the boy's throat because he believes that God's voice is commanding , " Kill him , " as Abraham believed . The Hebrew Bible , particularly in Deuteronomy ...
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... Hebrew Bible , the Quran is not shy about bloodshed . Muhammad himself is portrayed as the leader of a massacre of the Jews of Khaybar in 628 A.D. Here the Jews are placed in a situation similar to that of the Amalekites in the Hebrew ...
... Hebrew Bible , the Quran is not shy about bloodshed . Muhammad himself is portrayed as the leader of a massacre of the Jews of Khaybar in 628 A.D. Here the Jews are placed in a situation similar to that of the Amalekites in the Hebrew ...
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... Jewish faith is the understanding of Ju- daism that allows Jews to change their religion to roughly the same degree that it changes within the Hebrew Bible . The inner dynamism of the religion is recorded in the Hebrew Bible in the form ...
... Jewish faith is the understanding of Ju- daism that allows Jews to change their religion to roughly the same degree that it changes within the Hebrew Bible . The inner dynamism of the religion is recorded in the Hebrew Bible in the form ...
Contents
We Go to War That We May Have Peace | 9 |
The Fundamental Ideas of Just War | 41 |
The Center and | 76 |
Copyright | |
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