The Function of the Church in a Time of War: The Resolute Voices of Donald MacKinnon and Elizabeth Anscombe

Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):619-642 (2024)
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It has been argued that Elizabeth Anscombe's writings on killing and just war in the 1950s and early 1960s were highly influential, not only on just war theorists (such as Michael Walzer and Thomas Nagel), but also on the recovery of just war thinking among the US and British military. In researching the sources for Anscombe's thought, it became clear that Donald MacKinnon's unknown early writings on social ethics and war inspired and influenced Anscombe's earliest thought on justice in war. In this article, I focus on MacKinnon's and Anscombe's prophetic analysis of the role of the Church and the lay faithful under the spectre of war.

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John Berkman
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I.—What is a Metaphysical Statement?D. M. Mackinnon - 1941 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 41 (1):1-26.

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