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In Ethics of War: A Short Companion, Paul D. Miller provides an accessible primer on the just war tradition and ethical issues surrounding combat and warfare. Miller surveys the ethics of war and justice from a biblical perspective, then offers an overview of the just war tradition from a historical and ethical standpoints. He considers the contemporary challenges of the changing shape of modern warfare and offers insight on how to counsel soldiers, elected officials, and citizens in response. As a veteran, ethicist, and policy expert in international affairs, Paul Miller brings a lifetime of experience and firm Christian convictions to a difficult subject. Ethics of War: A Short Companion is a careful consideration of the ethical challenges facing believers in today's war-torn world. The Essentials in Christian Ethics series, edited by C. Ben Mitchell and Jason Thacker, is designed to illuminate the richness and centrality of ethics to all of the Christian life. Theseriesconsists of short, introductory volumes written by renowned scholars in the fields of ethics, theology, and philosophy. Each volume explores a crucial element of Christian ethical reflection, approaching the subject from within the broader Protestant moral tradition.
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: A Meditation on a Seashore | Waking Up to the Beauty around Us
- Chapter 2: The Echoes of Footsteps in Empty Rooms | Why Has Beauty Become a Theological Beast?
- Chapter 3: The World, the Word, and Wide-Eyed Wonder | Beauty and the Two Books of God
- Chapter 4: Behold, Our Beautiful God | Tasting and Seeing That the Lord Is Good
- Chapter 5: Prone to Wander, Pardoned to Wonder | From Bondage to Beholding His Beauty
- Chapter 6: Christians, the True Aesthetes | Imaging God in Our Being and Making
- Chapter 7: Further Up and Further In | Meadows, Museums, and Spiritual Formation
- Chapter 8: A Glimmer of Transcendence | On Artisans, Art, and Appreciation
- Appendix: Coming to Art with Your Senses | Aesthetic Awareness for Art Appreciation
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Scripture Index