Christian Pacifism for an Environmental Age / Blessed are the Peacemakers

Christian Pacifism for an Environmental Age
Mark Douglas
Cambridge University Press, 2019, 269pp, hbk
Blessed are the Peacemakers: Pacifism, Just War, and Peacebuilding
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Fortress Press, 2019, 380pp, pbk
What joins these two excellent books is a sustained and serious effort to reinterpret two approaches to social ethics in Christian tradition: pacifism and ‘peacebuilding’. Both volumes are strongly marked by present concerns: environmental issues and violence and war in a global context. They come to slightly different judgements on pacifism but both are broadly based, carefully argued, and—above all and emphatically to be welcomed—constructive.
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