Wrestling With God Ethical Precarity In Christianity And International Relations 1st Edition by Cecelia Lynch ISBN 1108483372 978-1108483377

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ISBN 10: 1108483372
ISBN 13: 978-1108483377
Author: Cecelia Lynch

Contrary to charges of religious “dogma,” Christian actors in international politics often wrestle with the lack of a clear path in determining what to do and how to act, especially in situations of violence and when encountering otherness. Lynch argues that it is crucial to recognise the ethical precarity of decision-making and acting. This book contextualizes and examines ethical struggles and justifications that key figures and movements gave during the early modern period of missionary activity in the Americas; in the interwar debates about how to act vis-à-vis fascism, economic oppression and colonialism in a “secular” world; in liberation theology’s debates about the use of violence against oppression and bloodshed; and in contemporary Christian humanitarian negotiations of religious pluralism and challenges to the assumptions of western Christianity. Lynch explores how the wrestling with God that took place in each of these periods reveals ethical tensions that continue to impact both Christianity and international relations.

Wrestling With God Ethical Precarity In Christianity And International Relations 1st Table of contents:

1 Wrestling with God in the Modern West

Christianity’s Place in Debates about Religion

Architecture of the Book

2 Understanding Christian Wrestling about Ethics

A Neo-Weberian Approach to Christian/Religious Ethics

Theodicy, Ethical Tensions, and Casuistry

Revealing Ethics through Genealogy

The Urgency of Critique and Action

3 Wrestling with the Violence of Conquest

The Conquest and Christian Ethical Debates

Bartolomé de Las Casas

European Interlude: Law and Theology in the Transition to Modernity

Jesuits, Protestants, and Eighteenth-Century Popular Casuistry

Conclusion

4 Wrestling with War in a Modern World

The March toward War: Militarism, Poverty, Class, Imperialism, and Economic Dislocation

Theological Context

Just War versus Pacifism: The Niebuhr Brothers and Beyond

Moving beyond the Pacifism/Just War Debate

Emergence from War: Reinscribing Liberal and Realist Christianity

Conclusion

5 Wrestling with the Violence of Oppression

Liberationism, Vatican II, and the Preferential Option for the Poor

Latin America and the United States in the Context of the Cold War

The Theology of Liberation: The Common Good versus Evil and Sin

Liberationists’ Ethical Struggles about Violence

Conclusion: Liberationism’s “Second Wave”?

6 Wrestling with Violence and Injustice Abroad and at Home

Christian Humanitarianism in the Post–Cold War World

The Common Good, Sin and Evil, and Popular Casuistry

Neoliberal Christian Humanitarianism?

Christian Ethical Struggles in a Multireligious World

Coming Full Circle? Reflexivity, Mission and the Fluid Boundaries of “Church” and “Christianity”

Conclusion

7 Has Anyone Prevailed?

Bibliography

Websites and Online Communications

Archival Documents and Interviews

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