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Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War: Religious and Secular Concepts, 1200-1740
By (Author) James Turner Johnson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
History
241.6242
Hardback
304
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
595g
The fundamental aims of this book are two: to explore the interaction between religion and secular society in the formation as well as the dissolution of just war doctrine; and to investigate just war doctrine as an ideological pattern of thought, expressive of a greater ideology. The author reconstructs the development of classic just war doctrine