Thomas A. Shannon is professor of religion and social ethics at Worcester Polytechnical Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, and the author of more than twenty books in the field of ethics, particularly medical ethics. He is the editor of a series of readers in bioethics for Sheed & Ward. Thomas Massaro, S.J., is assistant professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology. He is the author of Catholic Social Teaching and United States Welfare Reform and Living Justice: Catholic Social Teaching in Action.

Recommended. General readers; undergraduate and graduate students.

• Chapter 1 The Development of the Just War TraditionChapter 2 Survey of Roman Catholic Teachings on War and PeaceChapter 3 American Theological Reflections on War and PeaceChapter 4 Contemporary Developments: The State of the QuestionChapter 5 The End of the Cold War and Beyond: Political and Ethical IssuesChapter 6 Recent Christian Approaches to PeaceChapter 7 Peace and War: The State of the Question

Thomas A. Shannon is professor of religion and social ethics at Worcester Polytechnical Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, and the author of more than twenty books in the field of ethics, particularly medical ethics. He is the editor of a series of readers in bioethics for Sheed & Ward. Thomas Massaro, S.J., is assistant professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology. He is the author of Catholic Social Teaching and United States Welfare Reform and Living Justice: Catholic Social Teaching in Action.

Recommended. General readers; undergraduate and graduate students.

• Chapter 1 The Development of the Just War TraditionChapter 2 Survey of Roman Catholic Teachings on War and PeaceChapter 3 American Theological Reflections on War and PeaceChapter 4 Contemporary Developments: The State of the QuestionChapter 5 The End of the Cold War and Beyond: Political and Ethical IssuesChapter 6 Recent Christian Approaches to PeaceChapter 7 Peace and War: The State of the Question

Thomas A. Shannon is professor of religion and social ethics at Worcester Polytechnical Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, and the author of more than twenty books in the field of ethics, particularly medical ethics. He is the editor of a series of readers in bioethics for Sheed & Ward. Thomas Massaro, S.J., is assistant professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology. He is the author of Catholic Social Teaching and United States Welfare Reform and Living Justice: Catholic Social Teaching in Action.

Recommended. General readers; undergraduate and graduate students.

• Chapter 1 The Development of the Just War TraditionChapter 2 Survey of Roman Catholic Teachings on War and PeaceChapter 3 American Theological Reflections on War and PeaceChapter 4 Contemporary Developments: The State of the QuestionChapter 5 The End of the Cold War and Beyond: Political and Ethical IssuesChapter 6 Recent Christian Approaches to PeaceChapter 7 Peace and War: The State of the Question