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The experience of Wollom Jensen's distinguished career in military service and James Childs's long and productive career in the fields of theology and ethics combine to bring Christian...

The Moral Injury Handbook: Theory, Care, and Repair in Public and Faith Contexts brings together current scholarship, clinical insight, theological reflection, and decades of experience in ministry and...

Moral Injury is now recognized as a growing major problem for military men and women. Operant conditioning can overwhelm moral convictions and yet the question of whether “to...

A war is always a moral event. However, the most destructive war in human history has not received much moral scrutiny. The Good War That Wasn't--and Why It...

"This book is a study of the Holocaust as problem in ethical theory. How could a whole society participate in an ethic of mass torture and genocide for...

While most studies of just war focus on the rationale for going to war and the conduct of the war, this important book examines the period after the...

Veterans who experience the overwhelming trauma of war are often still stuck in the far country. In the aftermath, many feel abandoned by God. Adam D. Tietje suggests...

Fredric Muir explores a period of American history that is “difficult knowledge”: the country’s determination to be a member of the imperial era’s club of colonizing nations. While...

Living After: Stories of Moral Injury Among Disaster Survivors names and explores the often-unspoken reality that surviving disaster is not the end of the story. Long after the...

In this well-researched and ethical study, Vee Chandler combines insight gathered from the writings of scholars and Christian philosophers with personal observations and biblical perspectives to examine the...

Disaster work changes people. Emergency managers, responders, chaplains, volunteers, and community leaders step into moments when the normal moral order of life has broken apart. Homes are gone....

No catastrophe challenges treasured beliefs and cherished hopes more than the Holocaust, Nazi Germany's genocide against the European Jews during World War II. Fueled by virulent, racist anti-Semitism,...

This book looks at Poland at the time of the war in Ukraine with an emphasis on the pertinent political philosophical reflection of its public scholars regarding the...

The Beatitudes After Betrayal reclaims Jesus’ most familiar words for those who have been wounded by the very places where they expected goodness, justice, or faithfulness. In a...

Ethics of Wars of Insurgency is my fifth study on the ethics of war and peace. It spans a twenty-year period of perplexing war and peace history focusing...

Theological Injury explores the hidden spiritual wounds that occur when suffering, betrayal, unanswered prayer, moral conflict, disaster, or profound disappointment disrupt a person’s understanding of God, faith, and...

Integrity Under Pressure explores the moral injuries experienced by people who seek to act faithfully within institutions shaped by competing loyalties, political pressures, and ethical compromise. It examines...

2014 recipient of 'The Chief of the Defense Staff Commendation' by the Canadian Armed Forces. Although the moral and ethical dimensions of NATO presence in Afghanistan has been...

“What ought we to do?” In this third edition of Conscience and Conflict: How to Make Moral Choices, Jesuit theologian Kenneth Overberg discusses the sex abuse scandal in...

After the Gulf War and amidst the ongoing “peace process,” this timely book speaks to the need to address the deeper issues of Israel and Palestine—issues that concerned...

The Morality of Terrorism argues that terrorism violates certain human rights, just war, and consequentialist moral principles, and so is always wrong. In distinguishing freedom fighting from terrorism,...

Recent work by Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Robert Bellah has brought considerable attention to bear on the ethics of virtue. Little clarity has, however, emerged from that...

Kenneth Vaux elucidates the great just war traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, evaluating the key events of the Gulf War in light of the religious rhetoric used...