Is There a Christian Just War Theory?

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The idea that war has not been a part of Christian projects and projects of the church is just factually wrong. The term civilian is widely used not with reference to a noncombatant in a war zone, but rather to describe an American who has never experienced war. How did this pifurcated construction of the civilian citizen versus the soldier super citizen arise? And what are its implications for any sort of possibility of contesting American empire from within domestic politics?

Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. How the civil-military divide makes troops into super citizens and what it means that agents of state violence are turning to the grammar of identity politics—and more. The second in a two-part interview. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Subscribe to New Left Review newleftreview.org/subscriptions/new Buy My Country is the World: Staughton Lynd’s Writings, Speeches, and Statements Against the Vietnam War haymarketbooks.org/books/1956-my-country-is-the-world