Douglas Kries (Philosophy, Gonzaga University), “Faith, Reason, and Just War," March 1, 2023, Gonzaga Faith & Reason Institute
Does Christian commitment, and respect for the teachings of the Bible, require rejection of violence in the spirit of God’s self-sacrificing love? Or is it reasonable and justifiable for a Christian to be involved in violent war-making, if it is focused on defending the innocent against violence? How can reading the scriptures “with the Church” inform our understanding of the Christian view of war and violence?
Douglas Kries has degrees from Seattle University and Boston College, and is currently professor of philosophy at Gonzaga University. He teaches and has published on political philosophy and theology, including work on Augustine, Tocqueville, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
This talk is part of a set of presentations sponsored by the Gonzaga Faith & Reason Institute under the title “Reading the Bible with the Church.” These talks are in turn a special commemoration of a project organized and carried out by the Institute, a set of lectures from 2016-19 on the general topic The Church and Her Scriptures. That older lecture series was inspired by and organized around a lecture given by Gonzaga Religious Studies professor Fr. Patrick J. Hartin on Vatican II’s statement on biblical interpretation, Verbum Dei (1965) and culminated in the publication of the collected lectures in a volume titled The Church and Her Scriptures: Essays in Honor of Patrick J. Hartin (Pickwick, 2022).
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