Jonathan Gorry
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Gorry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Gorry |
| SIGNATURE | GORRY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Northampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8258-1862 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cold War Christians and the Spectre of Nuclear Deterrence, 1945–1959
Offering a new interpretation of early Cold War history, this book demonstrates how Christian agency played a pivotal role in the creating of space for the logic of nuclear deterrence and nuclear war
Cultures of learning and learning culture
A wide variety of British universities are expanding efforts to attract international students. This article argues that higher education's implicit claim to all-inclusive 'universality' may hereby be challenged by subsequent issues of cultural particularity. Here I set to conceptualise possible differences in the learning culture of Asian international students through a Confucian-Socratic framework. The Socratic method, our archetypal Occidenta…
Swords into Ploughshares? Ante-Nicene Christianity and the Ethics of Political Violence
Christian attitudes to power, politics, and violence have been complex and multifaceted for over two thousand years. On the one hand, the idea that all warfare is unjust might well originate with Christianity and its teachings; on the other hand, it is true that the Church's policies have been sufficiently flexible for Christianity to become the great crusader religion. In this context there is a contrast in thinking between what Christianity was…
Ploughshares into Swords? St. Augustine's Ethics of Political Violence
St. Augustine's efforts to reconcile Christ's teaching with the requirements of statecraft led him to became the founder of a theory of comparative justice we now call just war. Just war was designed to limit the nature and scope of imperial Roman warfare. Post-Constantine Christian attitudes to the use of organised political violence have largely been interpreted and guided by this tradition. Over time the term just war has been expanded beyond …
Shining Path or Prince of Darkness? Political Terror in Peru
Swords into Ploughshares? Ante-Nicene Christianity and the Ethics of Political Violence
Christian attitudes to power, politics, and violence have been complex and multifaceted for over two thousand years. On the one hand, the idea that all warfare is unjust might well originate with Christianity and its teachings; on the other hand, it is true that the Church's policies have been sufficiently flexible for Christianity to become the great crusader religion. In this context there is a contrast in thinking between what Christianity was…
Ploughshares into Swords? St. Augustine's Ethics of Political Violence
St. Augustine's efforts to reconcile Christ's teaching with the requirements of statecraft led him to became the founder of a theory of comparative justice we now call just war. Just war was designed to limit the nature and scope of imperial Roman warfare. Post-Constantine Christian attitudes to the use of organised political violence have largely been interpreted and guided by this tradition. Over time the term just war has been expanded beyond …
Shining Path or Prince of Darkness? Political Terror in Peru
Cultures of learning and learning culture
A wide variety of British universities are expanding efforts to attract international students. This article argues that higher education's implicit claim to all-inclusive 'universality' may hereby be challenged by subsequent issues of cultural particularity. Here I set to conceptualise possible differences in the learning culture of Asian international students through a Confucian-Socratic framework. The Socratic method, our archetypal Occidenta…
Swords into Ploughshares? Ante-Nicene Christianity and the Ethics of Political Violence
Christian attitudes to power, politics, and violence have been complex and multifaceted for over two thousand years. On the one hand, the idea that all warfare is unjust might well originate with Christianity and its teachings; on the other hand, it is true that the Church's policies have been sufficiently flexible for Christianity to become the great crusader religion. In this context there is a contrast in thinking between what Christianity was…
Ploughshares into Swords? St. Augustine's Ethics of Political Violence
St. Augustine's efforts to reconcile Christ's teaching with the requirements of statecraft led him to became the founder of a theory of comparative justice we now call just war. Just war was designed to limit the nature and scope of imperial Roman warfare. Post-Constantine Christian attitudes to the use of organised political violence have largely been interpreted and guided by this tradition. Over time the term just war has been expanded beyond …
Cold War Christians and the Spectre of Nuclear Deterrence, 1945–1959
Offering a new interpretation of early Cold War history, this book demonstrates how Christian agency played a pivotal role in the creating of space for the logic of nuclear deterrence and nuclear war
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · History (2 works) · War, Ethics, and Justification (2 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 works) · Antinuclear movement (1 works)