Theology for International Law

Esther D. Reed is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Network for Religion in Public Life at the University of Exeter, UK.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviations1 Introduction2 Towards a Restatement of Natural3 Jus Cogens Norms and the Impurity of Natural Law Reasoning4 Peacemaking through Law: Ambivalence,Violence and Answerability5 Responsibility to Protect and Militarized Humanitarian Intervention: Tests and Challenges6 Nation States and Love of Neighbour: Impartiality and the Ordo Amoris7 Human Rights and Ideological Confl ict: Threats to the Rule Law8 Concluding ThesesBibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects

This is a powerfully argued book that clears a lot of ideological ground and, one can only hope, generates new interest in the role of legal sources and norms in moral theology.