Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: New Books in Medieval History
Episode: Gregory Reichberg, “Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Description: When is war justified? What makes a just war?These are difficult questions to answer, but particularly so for Christians, followers of Jesus, who suffered violence without responding in kind. One philosopher-theologian who wrestled with these issues was Thomas Aquinas. Dr. Gregory Reichberg, research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, explores this subject in his new book Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2017).Not only does this work do an excellent job in probing in an accessible yet deep way Aquinas understanding of just war, Reichberg both reveals aspects of Aquinas...