Keith Pavlischek Lecture: “Christianity & Pacifism”

By Keith Pavlischek on October 19, 2017

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

Keith Pavlischek discusses the history of pacifism and argues that it is not an appropriate Christian approach to world engagement.

Keith Pavlischek, contributing editor, is a military affairs expert with a focus on just war theory and the ethics of war. He retired as a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps in 2007 after thirty years of active and reserve service having served in Desert Storm, Bosnia, Iraq, with the U.S. Central Command, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He is the author of John Courtney Murray and the Dilemma of Religious Toleration (1994) and numerous articles, including a chapter on the ethics of asymmetric warfare in the Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics (2015).