Links and Resources
Find religious responses to Sept. 11 and the full transcript of a just-war symposium including Jean Bethke Elshtain, Stanley Hauerwas, and James Turner Johnson.
A national Catholic weekly magazine, includes editorials on the nation's response to Sept. 11 from leading Catholic just-war thinkers.
Christianity Today online has followed the faith dimension of the American response to Sept. 11, including just-war arguments as well as reports from and about Pacifist Christian traditions.
OnBeing asks how and whether Christian principles really make a difference in the context of America's War on Terror.
Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University: Read analytical papers on Sept. 11, including an essay by John Paul Lederach, "The Challenge of Terror: A Travelling Essay."
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Elshtain is Laura Spelman Rockefeller professor of social and political ethics at the University of Chicago. She is a renowned political theorist, with a special interest in the morality of war, whose counsel is sought by seminaries, military academies, and national political leaders. Her publications include Women and War; Augustine and the Limits of Politics; The Just War Theory; and Who are We? Critical Reflections and Hopeful Possibilities.
Lederach is a leading Mennonite theologian/activist who pioneered the adaptation of his tradition's pacifist "theology of involvement" into regions of deep and intractable violence across the world. He is professor of peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies at Notre Dame University and a distinguished scholar at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Orange is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and author of Fire in the Hole. Raised Catholic and patriotic, he left his studies at Kent State University to fight in Vietnam. His book is the culmination of long reflection on the reality and the morality of war, with relevance both to the war he entered in 1968 and the conflict we have entered now.
