Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Towards a Restatement of Natural 3 Jus Cogens Norms and the Impurity of Natural Law Reasoning 4 Peacemaking through Law: Ambivalence,Violence and Answerability 5 Responsibility to Protect and Militarized Humanitarian Intervention: Tests and Challenges 6 Nation States and Love of Neighbour: Impartiality and the Ordo Amoris 7 Human Rights and Ideological Confl ict: Threats to the Rule Law 8 Concluding Theses Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects
Thisbook discusses the connection between theological ethics and international law
Esther D. Reed is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Network for Religion in Public Life at the University of Exeter, UK.
This is a powerfully argued book that clears a lot of ideological
ground and, one can only hope, generates new interest in the role
of legal sources and norms in moral theology.
*Theological Book Review*
If public theology is a difficult task, it is even more daunting
when directly engaging some of the most intractable dilemmas in
international affairs such as torture, the 'war on terror,' human
rights and humanitarian intervention. Esther D. Reed has taken up
this challenge and written a tightly reasoned, theologically
sophisticated, and politically savvy volume that respectfully
acknowledges the ambiguous but neccessary realities of law,
national interest and the use of lethal force without sacrificing
central gospel commitments such as care for the poor and love of
the 'other'.
*Modern Believing 56:1*
Esther Reed's book, unusually lucid in a field where obscurity is
often used to stake a claim to authority, should be read by all
those who want a powerful, well-informed and essentially optimistic
Christian voice discussing such deeply perplexing challenges and
developments of human self-ordering in the twenty-first
century.
*The Tablet*
I heartily endorse this elegant, informative, and authoritative
Christian theological account of international law.
*David P. Gushee, Mercer University, USA*
Esther D. Reed's Theology for International Law spans the gap
between the fundamental principles that make international law
morally compelling and the contemporary issues that make it
politically important. In the search for starting points for global
ethics, international law is a neglected resource. It matters not
only to legal specialists, but to business leaders, activists, and
ordinary citizens. Esther D. Reed helps us to understand how law
that works between nations begins and why it makes a difference for
the future.
*Robin W. Lovin, Center of Theological Inquiry, NJ , USA*
Scholars are rediscovering natural law in their search to answer
the critics of international law. Esther D. Reed's book is a timely
and invaluable contribution to this endeavor. She is the rare
scholar who deeply understands both natural law and international
law and the promise of both in supporting humanity's striving for
peace and the common good.
*Mary Ellen O'Connell, University of Notre Dame, USA*
Reed’s book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on
religion and international law. Much of this literature is focused
on human rights, and Reed distinguishes her book by taking a
Christian theological approach to the higher order question of
public international law … it lays a solid foundation, and readers
not well versed in international law will find the attention to
context and background helpful.
*Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology*
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