Theology for International Law

by Esther D. Reed

Overview

Whilst Christian theology is familiar with questions about the relation of church and state, divine and human law, little attention has been devoted to questions of international law. Esther D. Reed offers a systematic engagement with contemporary issues of international law and its relevance for modern theology. Reed discusses numerous issue driven topics, including: challenges to classic just-war thinking from so-called fourth generation warfare, peoples and nationhood within divine providence, the ethics of territorial borders and the militarization of human intervention. By discussing selected biblical texts Reed helps to move the issues of international law higher up the agenda of Christian theology, ethics and moral reasoning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567001399
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/12/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Esther D. Reed is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Network for Religion in Public Life at the University of Exeter, UK.
Esther D. Reed is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Network for Religion in Public Life at the University of Exeter, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 Towards a Restatement of Natural
3 Jus Cogens Norms and the Impurity of Natural Law Reasoning
4 Peacemaking through Law: Ambivalence,Violence and Answerability
5 Responsibility to Protect and Militarized Humanitarian Intervention: Tests and Challenges
6 Nation States and Love of Neighbour: Impartiality and the Ordo Amoris
7 Human Rights and Ideological Confl ict: Threats to the Rule Law
8 Concluding Theses
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects