Military Chaplaincy in Contention

Revd Canon Dr Andrew Todd is the Director of the Cardiff Centre for Chaplaincy Studies, employed jointly by St. Michael's College and Cardiff University. He leads research into public sector chaplaincy (including in the armed services). He directs the MTh in Chaplaincy Studies, delivered to Army Chaplains under contract to the MoD, which Cardiff has just won for the third time. He is also involved in lecturing on ethics to all British Army Chaplains. He has wide experience of theological education and is a past President of the Cambridge Theological Federation. He has published a number of articles on military chaplaincy and a number of articles and book chapters on other areas of practical theology. He wrote, with Michael West and Graham Noble, Living Theology (DLT, 1999), for which he did much of the editing.

’The presence of Christian chaplains on the battlefield focuses in a very sharp way the wider tension between a gospel of peace and the need for armed force in a brutal world. I welcome this book as a much needed and valuable contribution from those with first-hand experience of the role and the willingness to think theologically about that tension and the dilemmas it poses.’ Professor The Rt Revd Lord Richard Harries '... well-researched and written and [...] an important contribution to the debate which should be taking place.' The Pastoral Review

• Part I Chaplaincy in Contention; Chapter 1 Chaplaincy in Contention, AndrewTodd; Chapter 2 Moral Soldiering and Soldiers’ Morale, AndrewTotten; Chapter 3 ‘You’ve Been Silent, Padre’, PhilipMcCormack; Part II The Wider Context of Chaplaincy in Contention; Chapter 4 Terrorism and Interrogation, as an Issue for Chaplains on Operations, PeterSedgwick; Chapter 5 The Robotisation of War, DavidFisher; Part III Chaplains and their Churches; Chapter 6 The British Churches and their Chaplains, PeterHowson; Chapter 7 ‘O Hear Us When We Cry to Thee’, JonathanBall; Chapter 8 Just War, JamesColeman; Chapter 9 Moral Engagements, AndrewTodd, ColinButler;