The Ethics of War: A Zondervan Digital Short
By Scott Rae
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Derived from Scott B. Rae’s widely adopted textbook, Moral Choices, this digital short looks carefully at war in the Bible and at major Christian views on war, including pacifism, nonviolence and nonparticipation, and Just War theory. Not afraid to tackle hot-button issues like nuclear weapons and waterboarding, Rae also includes cases and questions for further discussion. The Ethics of Business thus provides a wise and well-grounded introduction to a key ethical question for Christians, namely, “Can I support or participate in war?”
Scott Rae
Scott B. Rae (PhD, University of Southern California) is professor of Christian ethics at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, La Mirada, California.
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The Ethics of War - Scott Rae
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The Ethics of War
Previously published in Moral Choices
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The Ethics of War
The Ethics of War
In 2003 the United States launched an invasion of Iraq, with the initial intention of ousting Saddam Hussein and generating a stable democracy in the Arab Middle East. Many people saw it as a part of the response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, a response that also included the war in Afghanistan, which was aimed at destroying terrorist bases of operations there. In the days leading up to the commencement of the invasion, there was a good deal of debate, both in Congress and in the media, over whether this was a war that should be undertaken. To be sure, there was a strategic component to the debate—that is, whether it was feasible to take on an invasion such as this. But a substantial degree of the discussion was about the morality of such a war—whether the Iraq war was a morally justified operation.
Interestingly, much of the debate centered on an idea that was at least a thousand years old—the idea of just war. Although this concept was clarified and codified in the Middle Ages, its criteria for determining the justice of a war were still