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Theology for international law /
Whilst Christian theology is familiar with questions about the relation of church and state, divine and human law, little attention has been devoted to questions of international law. Esther Reed offers a systematic engagement with contemporary issues of international law and its relevance for moder...
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2013.
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- Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; A perceived crisis in international law; Theoretical contexts; John Paul II's call for the renewal of the international legal order; Post-1945 political realism; Post-2001 new cosmopolitanism; International law in Christian (Protestant Thomist) perspective; Answerability before God and the international community; Answerability and the international common good; What is asked of Christian ethics and political theology?; 2 Towards a Restatement of Natural Law Reasoning; Avoiding old caricatures.
- Three moments in the task: Confession, critique, constructionThe telos of law in God; The injustice of human law; Reasoning about human law; Natural law reasoning as critique; Peacemaking; Good order; Common good; 3 Jus Cogens Norms and the Impurity of Natural Law Reasoning; On the reasonability of law; Legal prohibitions against torture; The problem of democratic deficit; The problem of vagueness; What if the consensus supports torture?; The problem of legitimacy; The problem of prioritizing democratic will over reason; On the telos of law; Reading Aquinas in context.
- Telos, custom and consentCan international common good be known and advanced?; 4 Peacemaking through Law: Ambivalence, Violence and Answerability; Non-international and international armed conflict; Just war criteria stretched to breaking point?; On the changing definition of war; A brief historical survey; 'Ordinary' and 'Extraordinary' judgement; The right of self-defence; Membership or non-membership of the foedus amphictyonum; Security and imminent threat; Perceptions of the enemy; Who is my enemy?; Enemies of the state?; Desiring the enemy's good.
- 5 Responsibility to Protect and Militarized Humanitarian Intervention: Tests and ChallengesVatican and WCC statements on RtoP; On the identity of the authority that can approve intervention; RtoP and the protection of human rights; RtoP and limiting the use of force; On the restraint of others from sin; Realism and mixed motives; Five tests; Seriousness of risk; Right intention; Last resort; Proportional means; Balance of consequences; Conclusions; 6 Nation-States, Borders and Love of Neighbour: Impartiality and the Ordo Amoris; A world without borders?; Reasons for caution.
- Theoretical contextsNations and divine wrath; Aquinas on the 'Order in Charity'; Nation as family?; Proximity and constitutional patriotism; Answerability within and beyond territorial borders: Matthew 25.31-35; How borders function; Particular loves and Catholic benevolence; 7 Human Rights and Ideological Conflict: Threats to the Rule of Law; Universality in international law; Enriching human rights?; Human rights in Christian perspective(s); Islamic views on the meaning of 'Universality'; Freedom of religion; Neo-Kantian theory and the meaning of universality; The problem of hegemony.