Christian Attitudes Toward War and Peace

by BAINTON ROLAND H.

• ISBN13: 9780687070275
• ISBN10: 0687070279
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1979-06-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

CHRISTIAN ATTITUDES TOWARD WAR AND PEACE

Author Biography

Roland H. Bainton: Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale University Divinity School until 1962, was one of the country's foremost church historians. He had served on the Yale faculty since 1921, he received his Ph.D. from that school

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
Ideals of Peace in Antiquity	p. 17
The Classical Origins of the Just War	p. 33
The Origins of the Crusading Idea in the Old Testament	p. 44
War and Peace in the New Testament	p. 53
The Pacifism of the Early Church	p. 66
The Theory of the Just War in the Christian Roman Empire	p. 85
From the Just War to the Crusade and Sectarian Pacifism	p. 101
The Renaissance Utopia and the Revival of the Just War	p. 122
Wars of Religion	p. 136
The Historic Peace Churches and War with the Aborigines	p. 152
The Enlightenment	p. 173
From Waterloo to Armageddon: A Century of Comparative Peace	p. 190
From the Outlawry of War to the Atom Bomb	p. 211
Past and Present	p. 230
What Then?	p. 252
Notes	p. 269
Guide to Literature	p. 289
Index	p. 291
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