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So we're going to talk about war today, and I'm going to do it in a manner of sort of walking us a little bit through our tradition.

I think it's always good to pay attention to traditional voices in the church and see the depth of the tradition that we draw on and the beauty associated with that tradition. We've really,

as a community, thought about almost every question in a manner that is illuminating and

probative, and you'll see some of that in what we do. I also have strong views about how to understand the just war account,

and I'm going to avoid the term theory and explain why in a minute,

that diverge from probably maybe some of the things you may think about it,

or if you've not thought about it before, certainly diverge from a lot of the professional opinion

in theology and moral philosophy. But I'll give my argument for it, and I think my argument

prevails. This is the typical understanding of the just war theory, and it is understood as a kind

of theory. Typically, people use it to make the case that

this or that war is unjust, that, you know, somehow it is departed from the moral analysis that you

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