The Ethics of War: A Short Companion

In Ethics of War: A Short Companion, Paul D. Miller provides an accessible primer on the just war tradition and ethical issues surrounding combat and warfare.

Miller surveys the ethics of war and justice from a biblical perspective, then offers an overview of the just war tradition from a historical and ethical standpoints. He considers the contemporary challenges of the changing shape of modern warfare and offers insight on how to counsel soldiers, elected officials, and citizens in response.

As a veteran, ethicist, and policy expert in international affairs, Paul Miller brings a lifetime of experience and firm Christian convictions to a difficult subject. Ethics of War: A Short Companion is a careful consideration of the ethical challenges facing believers in today’s war-torn world.

The Essentials in Christian Ethics series, edited by C. Ben Mitchell and Jason Thacker, is designed to illuminate the richness and centrality of ethics to all of the Christian life. The series consists of short, introductory volumes written by renowned scholars in the fields of ethics, theology, and philosophy. Each volume explores a crucial element of Christian ethical reflection, approaching the subject from within the broader Protestant moral tradition.

Paul D. Miller is professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, co-chair of the Global Politics and Security concentration in the MSFS program, and a non-resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

Series Editors:

C. Ben Mitchell (PhD, University of Tennessee) is a research fellow of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.

Jason Thacker (PhD candidate, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is assistant professor of philosophy and ethics at Boyce College and a research fellow in Christian ethics and director of the Research Institute at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.