Nuclear war called for new ethical insights and traditional just-war doctrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale of Two Cardinals] Reference

And the Vatican suspected that Bernardin was watering down just-war principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale of Two Cardinals] Reference

I'm not quite able to label myself a pacifist; I'm a reluctant adherant of just-war theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

Here the film becomes muddled, and does justice neither to Quakerism nor to just-war principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friendly Persuasion (1956)] Reference

His actions don't obey what just-war theorists refer to as "proportionality and discrimination.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

Such a claim has no part in traditional just-war theory—or, indeed, in any coherent moral theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continuing to wrestle with violence] Reference

Even if we adopt a very strict just-war theory, that is pacifism if it is effective in preventing war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Imagine all the Statements of Conscience...] Reference

But after a while you begin to see this pattern emerge that more than makes the man a political sock puppet with a veneer of “just-war” Christianity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama’s Torture Coverup « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference

Yet it has not altered just-war theory or the rule of law---which in the absence of personal humility, or any doubts about right action, seem particularly useful guideposts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hullabaloo] Reference

You can oppose Bush's war as dangerous, inadequately justified, contrary to international law, or — from pacifist or just-war perspectives — incompatible with the gospel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: January 2003 Archives] Reference

Yet it has not altered just-war theory or the rule of law --- which in the absence of personal humility, or any doubts about right action, seem particularly useful guideposts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Varia: Was Iraq A Just War?] Reference

It may well be true though I doubt it that it has no part in traditional just-war theory, but to engage in the discussion on those grounds would rapidly become academic and abstract.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continuing to wrestle with violence] Reference

The problem with the president's interpretation of just-war theory is that the conflict in Afghanistan - the issue that most threatens to undercut the legitimacy of his prize - doesn't fit the bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Feffer: Nobel Speech: Exceptional or Exceptionalism?] Reference

In the early '80s, he chaired a committee of bishops that produced a knowing and nuanced updating of the just-war theory for the nuclear age that put the Roman Catholic hierarchy in conflict with the Reagan administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art Of Dying Well] Reference

The president spoke in Oslo, when he accepted the Nobel Prize, of "just war" theory, although the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan do not meet the criteria laid down by Thomas Aquinas or traditional Catholic just-war doctrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravel's Lament: Fighting Another Dumb War] Reference

Dula takes papal biographer and just-war theologian George Weigel, smarty-pants theology editor Richard John Neuhaus, and their influential neoconservative theological journal First Things to task for theological error on the war in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: 'Commonweal' blasts 'First Things' on the war.] Reference

He has uncovered a flaw in standard just-war theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

The CIA interrogation program met the just-war standards.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

To this, however, just-war theory does have something relevant to add.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New American] Reference

In terms of the old just-war theory, we used to call that "disproportionate.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The French Cardinal ably shows the drastic limits on initiating war imposed by the traditional just-war criteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

A true Catholic political movement in the United States would indeed place far more emphasis on just-war theory and the Catholic Church's social teaching than many Catholics do today.    From Wordnik.com.  [About.com Catholicism] Reference

All they had going for them was the conflict’s spotless just-war reputation.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Shot]

In sum, military action in order to disarm Iraq can be morally justified in terms of just-war doctrine. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lew Rockwell: Warmongers Who Change Their Minds] Reference

"seamless garment" approach, but only if those who apply it elevate other elements of Catholic moral and social teaching (just-war theory, for instance) to the level of abortion, rather than using it as an excuse to vote for politicians who support abortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [About.com Catholicism] Reference

As it didn't meet the "just-war" doctrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Must we keep calling Nancy Pelosi a grandmother?] Reference