Demy / Larson / Charles The Reformers on War, Peace, and Justice

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4982-0698-3
Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten

Conflict and war were common during the Reformation era. Throughout the sixteenth century, rising religious and political tensions led to frequent conflict and culminated in the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) that devastated much of Germany and killed one-third of its population. Some of the warfare, as in central and southern Europe, was between Christians and Muslims. Other warfare, in central and northwestern Europe, was confessional warfare between Catholics and Protestants.
Religion was not the only cause of war during the period. Revolts, territorial ambitions, and the beginnings of the contemporary nation-state system and international order that emerged after the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) also fueled the trauma and tragedy of war. In many ways, the world of the Reformers and Protestant Reformation was a violent world, and it was within such a sociopolitical framework that the Reformers and their followers lived, worked, and died. This book introduces the teachings of the Protestant Reformers on war and peace, in their context, before offering relevant primary source readings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Demy, Timothy J.

Larson, Mark J.

Charles, J. Daryl

Über Autor(innen)

Charles, J. Daryl
J. Daryl Charles is Director and Senior Fellow of the Bryan Institute for Critical Thought & Practice at Bryan College. Among the number of books he has authored are Retrieving the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things (2008) and The Unformed Conscience of Evangelicalism: Recovering the Church's Moral Vision (2002).

Larson, Mark J.
Mark J. Larson holds a BA in Bible from Cedarville University, a ThM in systematic theology from Westminster Theological Seminary, and a PhD in historical theology from Calvin Theological Seminary.

Demy, Timothy J.
Timothy J. Demy is a Professor of Military Ethics at the Naval War College. He also serves as the American managing editor of the Journal of Military Ethics.

Timothy J. Demy is Professor of Military Ethics at the US Naval War College. He has authored numerous academic books.




Mark J. Larson is the author of
Abraham Kuyper, Conservatism, and Church and State (2015) and
Calvin's Doctrine of the State (2009).




J. Daryl Charles is a 2018 Affiliate Scholar of the Acton Institute, a contributing editor of the journals 
Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy and
Touchstone, and an affiliated scholar of the John Jay Institute.