Forbidden : Receiving Pope Francis's Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons
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| Title: | Forbidden : Receiving Pope Francis's Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons |
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| Description: | Moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict scholars, and nuclear experts imagine a world free from nuclear weaponsAt a 2017 Vatican conference, Pope Francis condemned nuclear weapons. This volume, issued after the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, presents essays from moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict transformation scholars, and nuclear arms control experts, with testimonies from witnesses. It is a companion volume to A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (Georgetown University Press, 2020). Chapters from the perspectives of missile personnel and the military chain of command, industrialists and legislators, and citizen activists show how we might achieve a nuclear-free world. Key to this transition is the important role of public education and the mobilization of lay movements to raise awareness and effect change. This essential collection prepares military professionals, policymakers, everyday citizens, and the pastoral workers who guide them, to make decisions that will lead us to disarmament. |
| Authors: | Drew Christiansen, Carole Sargent |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Just war doctrine, Nuclear disarmament--Moral and ethical aspects, Nuclear weapons--Religious aspects--Catholic Church, Nuclear weapons--Moral and ethical aspects, Peace--Religious aspects--Catholic Church, Deterrence (Strategy)--Religious aspects--Catholic Church, Nuclear disarmament--Religious aspects--Catholic Church |
| Categories: | RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, RELIGION / Ethics |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict scholars, and nuclear experts imagine a world free from nuclear weaponsAt a 2017 Vatican conference, Pope Francis condemned nuclear weapons. This volume, issued after the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, presents essays from moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict transformation scholars, and nuclear arms control experts, with testimonies from witnesses. It is a companion volume to A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (Georgetown University Press, 2020). Chapters from the perspectives of missile personnel and the military chain of command, industrialists and legislators, and citizen activists show how we might achieve a nuclear-free world. Key to this transition is the important role of public education and the mobilization of lay movements to raise awareness and effect change. This essential collection prepares military professionals, policymakers, everyday citizens, and the pastoral workers who guide them, to make decisions that will lead us to disarmament. |
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| ISBN: | 9781647122898 9781647122904 |
