The Horrors We Bless: Rethinking the Just-war Legacy Facets Series Horror Book Review

Is war inevitable? Is it so woven into the fabric of our being   that it always was and always will be? “Early Christians,” says Maguire,  “were unanimous in opposing this view.” They didn’t see war as normal but   an outrage and even a sacrilege. Maguire argues that later Christians   succumbed to the supposed “normalcy” of war and developed what later became   known as the “just-war theory,” which was actually devised as a deterrent   to the rush to war.