Are the rights of non-combatants being respected? Photo: DVIDSHUB/flickr CC
What is a just war?
Leslie Stevenson explores the criteria and applies them to Afghanistan
by Leslie Stevenson
18th March 2011
There have been two broad traditions about war within Christianity. Pacifism was dominant in the first three centuries, but the theory of a ‘just war’, developed by Augustine and refined by others, has since been the majority Christian view.
