This important volume debates an issue that mankind has always found troubling. Should religion -- any religion -- authorise the use of force by one people against another? If so, for what causes and in what ways? Scholars from the three Abrahamic traditions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism have contributed their views on a reality that is evident in conflicts endangering the world today. They have been joined by others asking to what extent the rule of law has superseded or modified religious tenets and imposed more stringent restrictions on the resort to arms and whether there is, in doctrine on the use of force, parallel thinking about self-imposed restraints.
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Dr. Joseph I. Coffey is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding.
Dr. Charles T. Mathewes is a Visiting Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. He is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.
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Charles Mathewes is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He spent much of his childhood in Saudi Arabia, and was educated at Georgetown University and the University of Chicago.
He works mostly in theology and ethics, with some attention to religion, politics, society, and culture as well. In 2003 at the age of 34 he was appointed Editor of The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the flagship journal in the field of religious studies, and is the youngest editor ever of that journal, where his tenure ended in 2010. He is also Associate Editor of the forthcoming third edition of the Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics, and currently serves on the House of Bishops Theology Committee of the Episcopal Church.
He lives with his family outside Charlottesville, Virginia, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
He works mostly in theology and ethics, with some attention to religion, politics, society, and culture as well. In 2003 at the age of 34 he was appointed Editor of The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the flagship journal in the field of religious studies, and is the youngest editor ever of that journal, where his tenure ended in 2010. He is also Associate Editor of the forthcoming third edition of the Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics, and currently serves on the House of Bishops Theology Committee of the Episcopal Church.
He lives with his family outside Charlottesville, Virginia, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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