Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition

by Mark Douglas

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009098934
• ISBN13: 9781009098939
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"