Blessed are the peacemakers: pacifism, just war, and peacebuilding

This work is a contribution to the Christian ethics of war and peace.

It offers critical interpretations of landmark positions from the Bible and early church through the twentieth century, and advances peacebuilding as a needed challenge to and expansion of the traditional framework of just-war theory and pacifism.

The focus of Christian theology, ethics, and practice should not be on justifying war but on practical and hopeful interreligious peacebuilding.