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A Special Issue of Studies in Christian Ethics (28, no. 3) gathers together contributions to the 2014 McDonald Centre conference on Nigel’s Biggar’s In Defence of War. It also features a set of responses from the author.
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Published at The Scottish Review, May 2015 IThe war against Hitler cost somewhere between 60 and 80 million lives, most of them civilian. This exceeded the human cost of the first world war by at least three times. It also reduced so much of Germany to rubble that some observers thought that she would never…
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See Nigel’s response to the question in The Times.
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And just war reasoning is as sound as ever “In a recent column here at The Week, Damon Linker responded to my book In Defence of War by concluding that ‘just war thinking, even at its very best, is an intellectual, moral, and theological fraud.’” Read Nigel Biggar’s response to Damon Linker’s critique in The Week.
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Last week Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education, published a controversial article in The Daily Mail, decrying left-wing denigration of Britain’s involvement in the First World War. In it he praised Nigel Biggar’s “superb essay” in the September issue of Standpoint magazine. You may find Mr. Gove’s article here. And Nigel Biggar’s essay below.
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Prof Nigel Biggar and The Rt Hon Clare Short (Former Secretary of State for International Development) spoke at The Veritas Forum in the Garden Auditorium at St John’s College on the ethics of war and the Iraq War in particular. The debate can be viewed here.
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The Financial Times Magazine has recently been exploring the morality, and the alleged effectiveness, of torture in cases where it would seem to save lives. John Lloyd, an news editor at Financial Times who has worked with the McDonald Centre on ethics and the media, wrote the initial article. Nigel Biggar’s response is now generating comments in the magazine’s letters column.
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On 30 October 2008, Richard B. Hays of Duke University and Nigel Biggar debated non-violence in the New Testament. The event was co-sponsored by the Hursley Theological Society and chaired by Markus Bockmuehl of Keble College. Hays is the author of the the bestselling The Moral Vision of the New Testament. A printed version of their…