Christian Political Ethics

Preface by John A. Coleman, S.J. ix

PART I: STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY

Chapter One: Christianity and Civil Society by Michael Banner 3

Chapter Two: A Limited State and a Vibrant Society: Christianity and Civil Society by John A. Coleman, S.J. 22

Chapter Three: Christianity, Civil Society, and the State: A Protestant Response by Max L. Stackhouse 54

PART II: BOUNDARIES AND JUSTICE

Chapter Four: Christian Attitudes toward Boundaries: Metaphysical and Geographical by Richard B. Miller 67

Chapter Five: The Value of Limited Loyalty: Christianity, the Nation, and Territorial Boundaries by Nigel Biggar 92

PART III: PLURALISM

Chapter Six: Conscientious Individualism: A Christian Perspective on Ethical Pluralism by David Little 113

Chapter Seven: Pluralism as a Matter of Principle by James W. Skillen 141

PART IV: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY

Chapter Eight: Christianity and the Prospects for a New Global Order by Max L. Stackhouse 155

Chapter Nine: Globalization and Catholic Social Thought: Mutual Challenges by John A. Coleman, S.J. 170

PART V: WAR AND PEACE

Chapter Ten: The Ethics of War and Peace in the Catholic Natural Law Tradition by John Finnis 191

Chapter Eleven: Just War Thinking in Catholic Natural Law by Joseph Boyle 217

Chapter Twelve: Christian Nonviolence: An Interpretation by Theodore J. Koontz 232

Chapter Thirteen: Conflicting Interpretations of Christian Pacifism by Michael G. Cartwright 261

Contributors 279

Index 281