The Impact of the Military

by Stephen Pickard (Editor), Michael Welker (Editor), John Witte Jr (Editor)

Overview

In an often violent and dangerous world military defense systems exercise a major role in the ways societies and nations function, develop their aspirations, protect themselves, promote their identities and shape their destinies. As we are only too aware at this time in global history, conflict, war and peace are deeply entangled and often morally ambiguous. This timely volume of essays offers contributions from Europe, Africa and Australia. It raises fundamental issues about the indispensability of the virtues in the military; the relationship between military and the public good; the nature of combatants and a soldier's responsibilities for humanity and peace; moral and spiritual injury; and new challenges for pastoral care in the armed forces.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666780758
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	05/31/2023
Series:	Impact
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Michael Welker, (born in 1947) was a professor of theology at the German universities of Tübingen, Münster, and Heidelberg and frequently a guest professor in the Anglo-American world (McMaster, Princeton, Harvard, Emory, and Cambridge). He is an honorary professor at Seoul Theological University, senior professor at the University of Heidelberg, and director of its Research Center International and Interdisciplinary Theology (FIIT). He has organized many international and interdisciplinary research projects that related theology and science, theology and law, theology and economy.



John Witte Jr., JD (Harvard), is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory Law School.