How should we think about war? Four views (with Micah Hurst and Becca De Souza)

About this episode

The episode explores four historic Christian frameworks for thinking about war and the conditions under which violence may be justified.

Is violence ever justified? Are there wars Christians should support? If so, what would the conditions need to be? If not, why not? In this episode Will and Caro are joined by friend of the pod Becca De Souza and Micah Hurst, pastor at Ashfield Baptist Church, to explore four historic Christian frameworks for thinking about war: from crusades and preventative war through just war theory, biblical nonresistance, and Christian pacifism. Along the way they wrestle with the gap between personal c...

People in this episode

Hosts: Will, Caro

Guests: Becca De Souza, Micah Hurst

Topics covered

• war
• Christianity
• violence
• just war theory
• pacifism
• historical frameworks

Keywords

• war
• Christianity
• violence
• just war theory
• pacifism
• crusades
• preventative war

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ashfield Baptist Church

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