The Impact of the Military

on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies

edited by Stephen Pickard, Michael Welker and John Witte

Book cover: The Impact of the Military

Extent: 188 pages

Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

Subjects: Religious Studies, Social Sciences 

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 2022)

ISBN: 9783374071876

Price: $39.00

In stock

In an often violent and dangerous world military defense systems exercise a major role in the ways societies and nations function, develop their aspirations, protect themselves, promote their identities and shape their destinies. As we are only too aware at this time in global history, conflict, war and peace are deeply entangled and often morally ambiguous. This timely volume of essays offers contributions from Europe, Africa and Australia. It raises fundamental issues about the indispensability of the virtues in the military; the relationship between military and the public good; the nature of combatants and a soldier’s responsibilities for humanity and peace; moral and spiritual injury; and new challenges for pastoral care in the armed forces.

  • Edited by Stephen Pickard
  • Edited by Michael Welker
  • Edited by John Witte