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Thinking Fellows

Just War Theology and the Christian Conscience

Thinking Fellows

1517 Podcasts

Society & Culture, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Adam Francisco, Bruce Hilman, and Caleb Keith discuss just war theology. Just war attempts to give Christians a framework within which their conscience can find comfort as rulers, soldiers, and citizens carrying out their vocations. Just war theology can be a useful tool, but it also has limits. Most importantly, participation in a just war does not justify the sinner. Justification happens apart from any just fulfillment of our vocations.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb Keith. Today I am joined by

0:24.9

Adam Francisco and Bruce Hillman. We are talking about just war. This was a Adam idea. So down

0:33.0

the line here, I'm going to let him introduce it, but very briefly, I could let people know how

0:39.2

Adam and I's funny conversation went about this, which was he said, we should do an episode on

0:42.7

Just War. And I said something like, yeah, I think, you know, we did that before, but the last

0:47.9

when we did that, we had Caleb Cargis on the show. And Adam said, oh, yeah, that was probably

0:52.5

seven or eight years ago um which is this happens

0:58.6

to us a lot where we'll sit down somebody will suggest a topic and you'll go not i mean we did that

1:04.9

before and uh it was like nearly a decade ago so So this is definitely one of those.

1:11.0

I'm sure we have lots of listeners who have not heard that episode or heard us talk about that topic before.

1:17.5

And obviously, war is in the news.

1:20.3

So it's time to talk about just war, an appropriate time to talk about just war.

1:28.8

But before we do that, the thinking fellows is part of the 1517 podcast network of shows and part of the 1517 family of

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And they're just kind of helpful ways to get you thinking about the text or read the text alongside of you, pick up some themes.

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They're written by some great guys, including some college professors and seminary professors and then just pastors with a lot of experience over at craft of preaching.

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