28
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Book Chapter: not found
      The Laws of War in International Thought 

      Political Theology, Ius Gentium, and Just War in Spanish Scholasticism

      edited_book
      Oxford University Press

      Read this book at

      Buy book Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this book yet. Authors can add summaries to their books on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Chapter 1 focuses on the early modern theologians and jurists of Spanish scholasticism. It begins by discussing the theological and metaphysical premises on which they built their doctrine of just war, and then turns to examine how they used the vocabulary of the Roman ius gentium in their construction. The chapter underscores the theologians’ self-understanding as providers of guidance for priests administering the sacrament of confession. The law of nations was central to their solution to the questions of whether and how war could be fought without sinning. Rulers who waged war to enforce their rights were free of sin, as were also soldiers who followed the command of legitimate rulers. While this solution worked for confession, it created a juridical problem the scholastics recognized but did not solve: rulers are judge and party in disputes that lead to war.

          Related collections

          Author and book information

          Book Chapter
          September 14 2020
          October 22 2020
          : 17-44
          10.1093/oso/9780198790259.003.0002
          a4e29246-eb42-4de5-89b3-2d778d6868c1
          History

          Comments

          Comment on this book

          Book chapters

          Similar content159