Ideology, reason, and the limitation of war : religious and secular concepts, 1200-1740 / James Turner Johnson.

The fundamental aims of this book are two: to explore the interaction between religion and secular society in the formation as well as the dissolution of just war doctrine; and to investigate just war doctrine as an ideological pattern of thought, expressive of a greater ideology. The author reconst...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Johnson, James Turner (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1975.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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Table of Contents:
  • War for Church and for Prince in Late Medieval Just War Theory
  • From Just War to Holy War Rationale in English Thought
  • The Beginnings of a Secular Just War Doctrine
  • Secularized Just War Doctrine: Grotius, Locke, and Vattel
  • Epilogue. Ideological and Non-ideological Restraints on War.