Wynn Phillip Gerald - Augustine on war and military service

With a work as broadly conceived as this, even the strictest detractors must, according to their measure of the material that should be in it but isnt, occasionally make allowances for mortal ignorance, while conceding the merest possibility that any particular something they mastered with their mothers milk may be missing for lack of space, or relevance.

The best medicine Ive known for treating mortal ignorance in these matters is the University of Notre Dames Medieval Institute, its library, and especially the staff and my colleagues there. Call-outs to that scoundrel Roberta Baranowski, who, though she denies it, actually runs the place; colleagues Leslie Lockett, for providing me a place to live while much of this was written; David Mengel, for providing me with a job; and Jonathan Juilfs, for his help in keeping me sanealthough in the end he failed.

One who succeeded was mentor and friend Tom Noble, whose intelligence and learning permeate these pages; he was, simply, indispensable to it.

Thanks are also due the folks at Fortress Press, particularly Will Bergkamp, all of whom I thinkor at least hope!will forgive me for sometimes claiming authorial prerogative in ladling out a spicy sauce or two.

A certain Pam and Charles are mostly relieved that a certain windbag now no longer talks about just war.

In the realms this work traverses, I must acknowledge three true pioneers whose footsteps Ive encountered, and often followed: Herbert Deane, Peter Haggenmacher, and Bernard Verkamp.

Finally, the greatest thanks are due my critics who show me my errors and omissions.

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The early twenty-first century has witnessed a continued, heightened, and widespread interest in the idea of just war. This renewal of interest began early in the twentieth century prior to and especially after the First World War, after a centuries-long period when the idea was largely banished to the realm of moral theology.

As the idea of just war gained increased visibility in intellectual discourse, it also acquired a history. In this account it emerged that the idea of Western just war was ancient, its origins traceable to statements made by St. Augustine in the late fourth and early fifth centuries. As James Turner Johnson recently expressed it, the origins of a specifically Christian just war concept first appeared in the thought of Augustine. This Augustinian just war was first systematized in Gratians