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Augustine on War and Military Service

  • ISBN-13: 9781451464733
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • Foreword by Phillip Wynn
  • Price: AUD $106.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 31/12/2013
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 350 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of religion [HRAX]Christianity [HRC]
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Did our modern understanding of just war originate with Augustine? In this sweeping reevaluation of the evidence, Phillip Wynn uncovers a nuanced story of Augustine's thoughts on war and military service, and gives us a more complete and complex picture of this important topic. Deeply rooted in the development of Christian thought this reengagement with Augustine is essential reading.
Phillip Wynn completed his Ph.D. at Notre Dame under the direction of Thomas F. X. Noble and has been awarded a fellowship as Fulbright scholar in residence at Ben Gurion University in Beersheva, Israel. He has published articles on historiography and the history of ideas in the late antique and early medieval periods.
"This worthwhile and ambitious study insists that we look beyond legal and theological traditions of just war theory to the historical context of the later Roman Empire for an understanding of its origins. Picking up on other scholars' discomfort with the notion of Augustine as the originator of a coherent, more or less complete doctrine of just war, Wynn ranges widely across late antiquity for earlier as well as alternative voices. In so doing, he stakes out a number of areas for future debate, debate which this important topic well deserves." Kevin Uhalde Ohio University "Beginning in the Middle Ages writers selectively combed Augustine's writings for comments on war and military service, turning him into the founder of ideas about just war. Phillip Wynn painstakingly puts Augustine's words back into their original contexts and draws very different and surprising conclusions." Thomas F. X. Noble University of Notre Dame
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