War

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Subsection

Resistance to Tyranny

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Order of Contents

Articles  4
Historical Theology  2


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Articles

Bahnsen, Greg – A Christian View of War  (1991)  18 pp.  with a supplemental reading list  These are study notes to his three audio lectures that can be purchased from Cmfnow.com.

While Bahnsen is a Theonomist, much of what he has to say is simply general equity derived from scripture.

Bullinger, Henry – ‘On Biblical Principles for War’  in The Decades of Henry Bullinger: The First & Second Decades, ed. Thomas Harding  (The University Press, 1849), 380-81

Bullinger gives four principles.

Einwechter, William – ‘A Christian Perspective on Just War’  (2003)  57 paragraphs

Einwechter gives 7 Biblical Principles for Just War.

 Zwingli, Ulrich – ‘On Mercenary Soldiers’  (1530)  12 paragraphs  in The World’s Famous Orations. Continental Europe (380–1906)  (1906)

Zwingli (1484–1531) distinguishes the “Holy Warrior” from the mercenary.


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Historical Theology

On the Early Church

Mattox, John – St. Augustine & the Theory of Just War  (Continuum, 2009)  208 pp.  ToC

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On the Reformation

Larson, Mark J. – John Calvin, the Geneva Reformation & Godly Warfare: Church & State in the Calvinian Tradition  Abstract  PhD thesis  (Calvin Theological Seminary, 2005)

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