ETHICS OF GOVERNMENT: CONTEMPORARY

Acton, H. B. (ed.) The Philosophy of Punishment

Arendt, H. On Violence

Barth, Karl Church Dogmatics III/4 §55.2 pp. 450-70.

Baum, Gregory Theology & Society

Best, G. War and Law Since 1945

Cahill, L. S. Love Your Enemies

Camara, H. The Church and Colonialism

Challenge of Peace, The U.S. Bishops' Pastoral Letter

Clark, S. R. L. Civil Peace & Sacred Order

Cullmann, O. The State in the New Testament

Demant, V. A. Religion and the Decline of Capitalism

Ellul, J Violence

Feinberg, J. Doing & Deserving

Fergusson, David (1998) Community, Liberalism & Christian Ethics

Finn, D. (1996) Just Trading: on the ethics and economics of international trade

Finnis J., Boyle J., Grisez G. Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and Realism

Forrester, D. Christianity and the Future of Welfare

Forrester, D. Christian Justice and Public Policy

Freedman, Lawrence The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy

George, R. (1993) Making Men Moral

Goodwin, G. (ed.) Ethics and Nuclear Deterrence

Gorringe, T. Capital & the Kingdom

Goudzwaard, R. Capitalism and Progress

Goudzwaard, R. & de Lange, H. Beyond Poverty & Affluence

Grant, G. In Defence of North America in Technology and Empire.

Grant, G. Thinking about Technology in Technology and Justice.

Hay, Donald Economics Today

Houck J. M. & Williams O. F Co-creation and Capitalism

Häring, B. The Healing Power of Peace and Non-Violence

Johnson, James T. Ideology, Reason and the Limitation of War

Johnson, James T. Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War

Johnson, James T. Can Modern War be Just?

Johnson, James T. The Quest for Peace

Kelsay, J., Johnson, J. Just War and Jihad

Kenny, A. The Logic of Deterrence

Laborem Exercens (Papal Encyclical, John Paul II)

Longford, Lord (F. Packenham) The Idea of Punishment

Lovin, R. Reinhold Niebuhr & Christian Realism

Lucas, J. R. Responsibility ch. 6

Maritain, J. Man and the State

Miller, R. (ed.) War in the Twentieth Century

Mitchell, Basil Law Morality and Religion in a Secular Society

Moore, Michael (1997) Placing Blame (chs. 2-4)

Niebuhr, Reinhold Moral Man and Immoral Society

Northcott, Michael (1999) Life After Debt

Novak, M. The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism

Novak, M. (1999) On Cultivating Liberty

O'Donovan, Oliver Measure for Measure

O'Donovan, Oliver Peace and Certainty

O'Donovan, Oliver (1996) The Desire of the Nations

O'Donovan, Oliver (1998) "The Death Penalty in Evangelium Vitae" in Hütter, R., Dieter, T. (eds.), Ecumenical Ventures in Ethics

Pacem in Terris (Papal Encyclical, John XXIII)

Paskins, B., Dockrill, M. The Ethics of War

Plant, Raymond (2001) Politics, Theology and History

Preston, R. H. Religion and the Persistence of Capitalism

Preston, R. H. Religion and the Ambiguities of Capitalism

Punishment (Board for Social Responsibility)

Rahner, K. On the theology of revolution(in Theological Investigations, vol. 14)

Ramsey, Paul The Just War

Ramsey, Paul War and the Christian Conscience

Rasmusson, L Earth Community, Earth Ethics

Regan, Richard J. Just War: principles and cases

Sider, R. Exploring the Limits of Nonviolence

Simon, Yves Work, Society and Culture

Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (John Paul II)

Song, R. Christianity and Liberal Society

Swartley, W. (ed.) The Love of Enemy & Non-retaliation in the New Testament

Thielicke, H. Theological Ethics II, pp. 419-533.

Viner, J. Religious Thought and Economic Society

Walker, Nigel Why Punish?

Walzer, Michael L. Just and Unjust Wars

Yoder, J. H. The Christian and Capital Punishment

Yoder, J. H. Nevertheless

Yoder, J. H. The Christian Witness to the State

Yoder, J. H. The Original Revolution

Yoder, J. H. For the Nations

Yoder, J. H. (1972) The Politics of Jesus

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