The Impact of the Military

Coeditor, The Impact of the Military on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2022) (with Michael Welker and Stephen Pickard)
 
Volume 7 of a 10 volume series on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies.
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Project Series Description (Canopy Forum article)
 
List of Series Volumes Reprinted
Description

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.
Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface to the Series – Michael Welker, John Witte Jr., and Stephen Pickard
  • Introduction – Stephen Pickard
 
Part One: Combatants, Ethics, and Society
 
Jochen Cornelius-Bundschuh
The Military Defense System and the Public Soul in Germany: A Protestant Perspective
 
Angelika Dörfler-Dierken
Inner Leadership, or The Soldier’s Responsibility for Humanity and Peace
 
Gerd Theißen and Sylvie Thonak
The Complementary Path to Peace: On Peace Ethics in German Protestantism
 
Part Two: Virtues: Re-Evaluating the Military Context
 
Hartwig von Schubert
Which Morals Society Should Learn from the Military, and Which Decidedly Not
 
Marco Hofheinz
The Indispensability of Virtues in the Military: Virtue Ethical Considerations Following the Guiding Concept of the Miles Protector
 
Keith Joseph
Different Missions, Different Virtues? 
 
Martin Elbe
From the Playing Field to the Battlefield: Does Sport in the Military Promote the Formation of a Specific Character?
 
Torsten Meireis
After Chivalry
 
Part Three: Moral Injury and Character
 
Seumas Miller
Moral Injury, Moral Character, and Military Combatants 
 
Isolde Karle and Niklas Peuckmann
In the Shadow of the Operation: Moral and Spiritual Injuries as New Challenges for Pastoral Care in the German Armed Forces
 
Justin Bronson Barringer
Communal Responses to the Business of War

  • Contributors