The Christian Ethic of War

In The Christian Ethic of War, P. T. Forsyth looks to Christ’s atonement for the justification of war by Christians. “I do not aim here at expounding that Atonement, but at working out some of its moral implicates and results on the public and national side—a side on which a Christianity based only on Christ’s teaching has been criticized as defective.” He explores these results in the following chapters: • Killing No Murder • The Judgment of Crime by Crime • War and Love • Judgment By the Saints • Passive Resistance • The Moral Sanction of Force • Christian Love as Public Righteousness • Christian Ethic Lay and Historic • Christian Ethic Historic and National • Justification and Judgment • The Judgment on the Cross and in the Field