Joseph E. Capizzi Lecture: “Catholic Teaching & Just War”

By Joseph E. Capizzi on October 23, 2017

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

Joseph E. Capizzi discusses the nature of teaching, the essential commitments of the just war account, and how they relate.

Christianity and National Security Conference 2017 | Just War Tradition

Joseph E. Capizzi is a professor of moral theology and ethics and the executive director of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. He teaches in the areas of social and political theology, with special interests in issues in peace and war, citizenship, political authority, and Augustinian theology. He is the author of Politics, Justice, and War: Christian Governance and the Ethics of Warfare (Oxford University Press, 2015).

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