The Reformers on War, Peace, and Justice
Ebook
Overview
Conflict and war were common during the Reformation era. Throughout the sixteenth century, rising religious and political tensions led to frequent conflict and culminated in the Thirty Years’ War (1618-48) that devastated much of Germany and killed one-third of its population. Some of the warfare, as in central and southern Europe, was between Christians and Muslims. Other warfare, in central and northwestern Europe, was confessional warfare between Catholics and Protestants. Religion was not the only cause of war during the period. Revolts, territorial ambitions, and the beginnings of the contemporary nation-state system and international order that emerged after the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) also fueled the trauma and tragedy of war. In many ways, the world of the Reformers and Protestant Reformation was a violent world, and it was within such a sociopolitical framework that the Reformers and their followers lived, worked, and died. This book introduces the teachings of the Protestant Reformers on war and peace, in their context, before offering relevant primary source readings.
“The authors have performed an invaluable service in marshalling
a diverse array of well-contextualized primary sources on this
subject. This book clearly represents an ideal starting point for
the study of Reformed perspectives on questions of war and
peace.”
—Michael Snape, Durham University
“This is a superb volume! The ideas one encounters here are
articulated by a range of different Early Modern
reformers writing within their own particular settings;
they speak to their own problems, specific concerns,
idiosyncratic desires, and hopeful solutions. The
authors introduce each reformer in a readable and scholarly
manner, explaining who they are, what characterized their
lives, and what situations they sought to address. The
volume will make a brilliant addition to undergraduate or
graduate seminars, not to mention one’s personal library. The
authors’ selections are engaging, fresh, and illuminating.”
—Jon Balserak, University of Bristol
- Title: The Reformers on War, Peace, and Justice
- Authors: Timothy J. Demy, Mark J. Larson, Daryl J. Charles
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781498206983, 9781498206976, 9781498206990, 1498206980, 1498206972, 1498206999
- Resource ID: LLS:9781498206983
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-02-18T08:16:55Z
Timothy J. Demy is Professor of Military Ethics at the US
Naval War College. He has authored numerous academic books.
Mark J. Larson is the author of Abraham Kuyper,
Conservatism, and Church and State (2015) and Calvin's
Doctrine of the State (2009).
J. Daryl Charles is a 2018 Affiliate Scholar of the Acton
Institute, a contributing editor of the
journals Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American
Foreign Policy and Touchstone, and an affiliated
scholar of the John Jay Institute.