Daniel Strand is a professor who teaches courses on the just war tradition, ethics and leadership, and contemporary political ethics. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Arizona State University (2015-19) in the History Department and the Program in Political History and Leadership. Strand’s research interests include the political and moral theology of Augustine of Hippo and the Augustinian tradition, ethics and foreign policy, the just war tradition, bioethics, and moral theory. He is the author of the forthcoming Gods of the Nations (Cambridge University Press), a historical study of Augustine’s political theology in The City of God. He has published articles and book chapters on Augustine of Hippo, Hannah Arendt, and the ethics of euthanasia. He is a contributing editor at Providence. He received his BA from the University of Minnesota, MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and PhD in religion and ethics from the University of Chicago.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has won the Noble Prize for Peace. For a fiction.
Daniel StrandOctober 16, 2017
The American strategy in fighting Islamic State (ISIS) in Northern Iraq and Syria seems to be working. President Obama deserves some credit for this success, along with the US military and President Trump.
Daniel StrandAugust 23, 2017
Does the American president possess divine sanction to use war to stop regimes bent on harming and threatening Americans?
Daniel StrandAugust 16, 2017
We ought to denounce the alignment of America with God’s salvific work even while appreciating the many blessings that America and its ideals have brought to us and the world.
Daniel StrandJuly 24, 2017
Mark Lilla’s new book, The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction, examines the power of nostalgia in its political manifestation.
Daniel StrandJuly 18, 2017
Christian pacifism became untenable for me because the God who punished, killed, and destroyed in the Old Testament remains the God of the New Testament.
Daniel StrandJuly 6, 2017
Nigel Hamilton’s Commander in Chief reveals Franklin Roosevelt formulated at a very early phase a clear vision for how a liberal international order should look post-World War II.
Daniel StrandMay 23, 2017
A necessary punitive act watched by China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia.
Daniel StrandApril 7, 2017
The most glaring weakness in the Declaration, by my lights, is the failure to reckon with and address the kingship of Jesus Christ.
Daniel StrandNovember 2, 2016
During the Iraq War, there was no shortage of outrage. But why is the political left so quiet on the humanitarian nightmare that is Syria?
Daniel StrandOctober 18, 2016
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