Holy War, Just War

Exploring the Moral Meaning of Religious Violence

By (author) Lloyd Steffen

Hardback - £105.00

Publication date:

29 March 2007

Length of book:

330 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742558472

Holy War, Just War explores the 'dark side' in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism by examining how the concept of ultimate value contributes to religious violence. The book states that religion has within its own conceptual tools the resources to understand its own dark side and that religious people must subject their religion to a moral vision of goodness and constrain those parts that make for violence and hatred.
This is urgently relevant, present-tense theology on the power of religion to inspire either slaughter or peace. Lloyd Steffen candidly subjects religion—and even God—to deft exploratory surgery.