Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War: Religious and Secular Concepts, 1200-1740

by James Turner Johnson

Book Overview

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 reconstructs the development of classic just war doctrine, showing it to be a product of secular and religious forces. From it he traces the growth of the doctrines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691072094
• ISBN13: 9780691072098
• Release Date: July 1975
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.