TY - BOOK ID - 101341412 TI - Modernity, the environment, and the Christian just war tradition PY - 2022 SN - 1009106619 1009116762 1009098934 1009116568 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Just war doctrine. KW - War KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Christianity and war KW - War (Philosophy) KW - Jus ad bellum KW - War and morals KW - Moral and ethical aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101341412 AB - In this volume, Mark Douglas presents an environmental history of the Christian just war tradition. Focusing on the transition from its late medieval into its early modern form, he explores the role the tradition has played in conditioning modernity and generating modernity's blindness to interactions between 'the natural' and 'the political.' Douglas criticizes problematic myths that have driven conventional narratives about the history of the tradition and suggests a revised approach that better accounts for the evolution of that tradition through time. Along the way, he provides new interpretations of works by Francisco de Vitoria and Hugo Grotius, and, provocatively, the Constitution of the United States of America. Sitting at the intersection of just war thinking, environmental history, and theological ethics, Douglas's book serves as a timely guide for responses to wars in a warming world as they increasingly revolve around the flashpoints of religion, resources, and refugees. ER -