Title The American search for peace : moral reasoning, religious hope, and national security / essays by James F. Childress .. [and others] ; with conversations reported by Alberto R. Coll ; edited by George Weigel and John P. Langan..

Publication Info.	Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [1991]
	©1991

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	172.42 A512A	Check Shelf

Description	xii, 281 pages ; 24 cm
Note	Revised papers presented at a seminar held 1987-1988.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	The national interest and the national purpose : from policy debate to moral argument / George Weigel -- Moral reasoning and national security / John P. Langan -- The just war idea and the American search for peace / James Turner Johnson -- Contemporary pacifism : its major types and possible contributions to discourse about war / James F. Childress -- Intervention and international affairs : a normative and empirical assessment / J. Bryan Hehir -- Community, morality, and survival : religious dimensions of the ethics of war and peace / Robin W. Lovin -- Refocusing the ethical agenda : political settlement as an alternative to the use of force / John P. Langan, and Harold Saunders.
	The role of the churches in the American search for peace / David Hollenbach -- Afterword / John P. Langan.
Subject	Peace -- Religious aspects -- Congresses.
	National security -- United States -- Congresses.
	Religious ethics -- Congresses.
	United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
	United States -- Military policy -- Religious aspects -- Congresses.
	Religion and international relations -- Congresses.
	Just war doctrine -- Congresses.
	Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- Congresses.
	United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989 -- Congresses.
Added Author	Childress, James F.
	Coll, Alberto R.
	Weigel, George, 1951-
	Langan, John, 1940-
ISBN	0878405070 alkaline paper
	0878405194 paperback alkaline paper

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