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Deliberating Just War
Author(s) -
Norris Kristopher
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of religious ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1467-9795
pISSN - 0384-9694
DOI - 10.1111/jore.12091
Subject(s) - just war theory , meaning (existential) , argument (complex analysis) , epistemology , philosophy , democracy , law , sociology , spanish civil war , political science , politics , biochemistry , chemistry
This essay responds to J ames T urner J ohnson's critiques of my argument in “‘Never Again War’: Recent Shifts in the Roman Catholic Just War Tradition and the Question of ‘Functional Pacifism.’” (2014). It attends specifically to three of J ohnson's objections and offers accounts of the meaning and use of the term “functional pacifism,” an understanding of classic just war thought as a tradition, and the concepts of peace and authority within just war and pacifist thought. It argues that my analysis of the C atholic C hurch's movement toward pacifism but ultimate theological inability to embrace a functional pacifism still stands in spite of J ohnson's critiques. In addition, it suggests that J ohnson offers a thin pacifistic conception of peace and promotes a restricted notion of ecclesial authority and democratic government.