Add to ORKGThis essay falls into two parts. In the first I offer a panorama of my book, In Defence of War (Oxford University Press, 2013), highlighting its main features. These comprise: its rhetorical position; its opposition to the “the virus of wishful thinking”, pacifism, legal positivism, and liberal individualism; and its promotion of the early Christian tradition of just war reasoning and of three kinds of realism – moral-ontological, Augustinian-anthropological, and practical. Then in the second part, I consider four controversial issues that the book raises: love, proportionality, Britain's entry into the First World War, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq
This is the author's pdf version of the book chapter.This introduction discusses the debate over war...
This book is not available through ChesterRep.This book debates the ethics and morality of war withi...
Victory has historically been regarded as the ‘telos’ or ‘very object’ of war. As one well-placed co...
This article presents four controversial issues that are raised by the articulation of just war thin...
The author of In Defence of War responds to each commentator in turn, discussing the following issue...
Nigel Biggar is Regis Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and Director of the McDonald Centre f...
This book began in an argument between friends surprised to find themselves on opposite sides of the...
Book Review: In Defence of War. By Nigel Biggar. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013, 361 pp.;...
Just war theory has always been a matter of controversy in the Christian tradition. How could war po...
Some reject the very idea of the “morality of war”.[1] Of those, some deny that morality applies at ...
PublishedAuthor's post-print version of an article published in Studies in Christian Ethics, Volume ...
University of Hull, Centre for Nineteenth–Century Studies Objections to War: pacifism, anti-interven...
As indicated by the editors, the ten essays in this volume “arose from a conference on just war theo...
Although war is ubiquitous in Shakespeare, criticism on this topic has been sporadic and sparse. A s...
Although war is ubiquitous in Shakespeare, criticism on this topic has been sporadic and sparse. A s...
This is the author's pdf version of the book chapter.This introduction discusses the debate over war...
This book is not available through ChesterRep.This book debates the ethics and morality of war withi...
Victory has historically been regarded as the ‘telos’ or ‘very object’ of war. As one well-placed co...
This article presents four controversial issues that are raised by the articulation of just war thin...
The author of In Defence of War responds to each commentator in turn, discussing the following issue...
Nigel Biggar is Regis Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and Director of the McDonald Centre f...
This book began in an argument between friends surprised to find themselves on opposite sides of the...
Book Review: In Defence of War. By Nigel Biggar. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013, 361 pp.;...
Just war theory has always been a matter of controversy in the Christian tradition. How could war po...
Some reject the very idea of the “morality of war”.[1] Of those, some deny that morality applies at ...
PublishedAuthor's post-print version of an article published in Studies in Christian Ethics, Volume ...
University of Hull, Centre for Nineteenth–Century Studies Objections to War: pacifism, anti-interven...
As indicated by the editors, the ten essays in this volume “arose from a conference on just war theo...
Although war is ubiquitous in Shakespeare, criticism on this topic has been sporadic and sparse. A s...
Although war is ubiquitous in Shakespeare, criticism on this topic has been sporadic and sparse. A s...
This is the author's pdf version of the book chapter.This introduction discusses the debate over war...
This book is not available through ChesterRep.This book debates the ethics and morality of war withi...
Victory has historically been regarded as the ‘telos’ or ‘very object’ of war. As one well-placed co...