The Just War Tradition

Life and Books and Everything

Clearly Reformed

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered if King Arthur was justified in cutting off all four limbs of Monty Python’s Black Knight when he refused the king passage? If so, then you’ll want to listen to this episode of LBE with Eric Patterson. Eric is an author, an important leader in Washington, D.C. and an expert in the theology and history of the Just War Tradition. What are the right reasons for going to war? How should a just war be fought? Was the American Revolution a just war (or even a revolution)? What about the firebombing of Dresden in World War II? Join Kevin and Eric and they try to apply the insights of the Just War Tradition to military conflicts past and present.

Chapters:

0:00 Introductions

7:45 A Basic Guide to the Just War Tradition

15:45 What Makes a War Just?

29:45 Sponsor Break | Crossway

30:28 “It’s Only a Flesh Wound.”

35:25 A Just American Revolution?

46:39 MLK’s Just Cause

51:15 Sponsor Break | Desiring God

52:00 Current Events

Books & Everything:

Basic Guide to the Just War Tradition: Christian Foundations and Practices

Just War and Christian Traditions

Humility: The Joy of Self-Forgetfulnes

Ask Pastor John: 750 Bible Answers to Life's Most Important Questions

Transcript

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0:00.0	Greetings and salutations.
0:09.8	Welcome back to Life and Books and Everything.
0:12.4	I'm Kevin DeYoung, senior pastor at Christ's Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina.
0:17.6	Today I am joined by my special guest, Eric Patterson. Eric, you have such a long
0:24.7	bio here on Wikipedia, so somebody's doing a good job that I won't be able to get to all of it.
0:30.8	But Eric is an American political scientist. Work focuses on international relations. Just War
0:36.5	Theory. That's what we're going to be talking about
0:38.1	today, Just War Theory and his book on that topic. He has advanced degrees from University of
0:44.8	California, Santa Barbara, University of Wales. And as of very recently, you now serve as the
0:52.0	president and CEO of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
0:56.9	in Washington, D.C., worked at the Religious Freedom Institute in D.C. and taught and has written
1:03.9	in a number of academic journals and other places. So, Eric, thank you for being on Life and Books and Everything.
1:12.2	Kevin, you're welcome.
1:13.0	It's a pleasure to be here with you today.
1:15.5	So just tell us a little bit more.
1:17.4	That's the important stuff, but tell us the other important stuff.
1:21.6	Tell us about your family.
1:23.3	Tell us about how you became a Christian.
1:24.7	Just give us a little more of introduction and then work your way into this new job, the victim of communism Memorial Foundation. What is that all
1:33.7	about? Well, I had the pleasure, I mean, really the blessing, I should say, of growing up in a
1:39.2	Christian home. And so a lot of credit goes to my parents for modeling, literally to this day what a godly marriage
1:46.3	looks like, the importance of being grounded in the Bible and being grounded in church,
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