The Horrors We Bless
Rethinking the Just-War Legacy
- Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
- Publisher: Fortress Press (Augsburg Fortress)
- Published: 2007
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Publisher's Description
Is war inevitable? Is it so woven into the fabric of our being that it always was and always will be? "Early Christians," says Maguire, "were unanimous in opposing this view." They didn't see war as normal but an outrage and even a sacrilege. Maguire argues that later Christians succumbed to the supposed "normalcy" of war and developed what later became known as the "just-war theory," which was actually devised as a deterrent to the rush to war.
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“This slim book is a work that every American should read, whether blue state or red state. Democrat or Republican, Christian or non, Catholic or Protestant, conservative or progressive – the only requirement being that the reader be rational enough to recognize stupidity.”
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