Wrestling with God

Cecelia Lynch is a professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine. Her book Beyond Appeasement (1999) won the Myrna Bernath Book Prize and the Edgar Furniss Book Prize. She is the recipient of the J. Ann Tickner Award (2014) and was recognised as the International Political Sociology Distinguished Scholar (2019), both awarded by ISA.

• 1. Wrestling with God in the Modern West; 2. Understanding Christian Wrestling About Ethics; 3. Wrestling with the Violence of Conquest; 4. Wrestling with War; 5. Wrestling with the Violence of Oppression; 6. Wrestling with Violence and Injustice Abroad and at Home; 7. Has Anyone Prevailed?; Bibliography; Index.

'Cecelia Lynch offers a brilliant rejoinder to those too quick to cast aside Christian ethics. The book offers an unflinching look at the promises and problems of the international order … structured around profound queries of modern political events from war to humanitarianism. It is necessary reading for anyone wrestling with questions of public morality [and] the place of spirituality in the exercise of liberty, freedom, and the responsibility to self and others.' Siba N. Grovogui, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Cornell University