Catholic Perspectives on Peace and War

Chapter 1 The Development of the Just War Tradition Chapter 2 Survey of Roman Catholic Teachings on War and Peace Chapter 3 American Theological Reflections on War and Peace Chapter 4 Contemporary Developments: The State of the Question Chapter 5 The End of the Cold War and Beyond: Political and Ethical Issues Chapter 6 Recent Christian Approaches to Peace Chapter 7 Peace and War: The State of the Question

Thomas A. Shannon is professor of religion and social ethics at Worcester Polytechnical Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, and the author of more than twenty books in the field of ethics, particularly medical ethics. He is the editor of a series of readers in bioethics for Sheed & Ward. Thomas Massaro, S.J., is assistant professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology. He is the author of Catholic Social Teaching and United States Welfare Reform and Living Justice: Catholic Social Teaching in Action.

Recommended. General readers; undergraduate and graduate students. CHOICE If you want to know what the Catholic Church and its theologians have been saying about war and peace... you need look no further than this fine survey by Massaro and Shannon. Cistercian Studies Quarterly A clear, concise treatment of Catholic teaching on violence and nonviolence...an excellent short course on the subject. U.S. Catholic Catholic teaching on war and peace is changing as dramatically as the experience of war and violence across the globe. This book will give students, teachers, and anyone interested in the moral questions exploding with each day's news a clear, concise, and readable introduction to the issues and the options. For serious citizens, Christian or not, this summary is indispensable. -- David J. O'Brien, Loyola Professor of Roman Catholic Studies, College of the Holy Cross