Eric Patterson Lecture: “Just War Teaching & Christian Higher Education”

By Eric Patterson on October 19, 2017

The following lecture was recorded during Providence’s 2017 Christianity and National Security Conference.

Eric Patterson uses Harry Potter to discuss the just war tradition. He argues that as the Harry Potter series is about love and war, so is just war about love. Love is a motivator for protecting others and is the foundation of the just war tradition.

Christianity and National Security Conference 2017 | Just War Tradition

Eric Patterson, Ph.D., is President & CEO of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, DC and scholar-at-large and past dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University. His expertise, informed by time at the US Department of State and in the military, is on just war thinking, the nexus of religion and national security, and Christian Realism. He is the author or editor of 22 books, including Just American Wars, Politics in a Religious World, and Ending Wars Well.

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