Admirably and readably clarifies the connections 
and contrasts that have fueled much recent moral debate.
--James Turner Johnson


Joseph Allen’s War: A Primer for Christians is 
just that: a succinct, fair-minded, wonderfully reasoned, 
and accessible account of the major Christian traditions 
on war-Just War, Holy War, and the Pacifist renunciation 
of violence.  His book is also a primer in the further 
sense, that it will prime the pump for further discussion 
and debate as to when wars are just and how a nation might 
keep the means employed under restraints. The book is a 
treasure for use in the college classroom and with lay 
groups in the churches.--William F. May

    First published by Abingdon Press in 1991.


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JOSEPH L. ALLEN is professor emeritus of Christian 
ethics at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist 
University, and is a past president of the Society of 
Christian Ethics in the United States and Canada.