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The Sword and the Cross: Reflections on Command and Conscience

The Sword and the Cross: Reflections on Command and Conscience

The Sword and the Cross: Reflections on Command and Conscience
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The Sword and the Cross: Reflections on Command and Conscience Hardback - 1992

by TONER, James H

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Praeger, 1992. Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. No ownership marks. Binding sound, text unmarked.. No ownership marks. Binding sound, text unmarked. Near Fine/No dustwrapper. xiv,186pp.
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  • Title The Sword and the Cross: Reflections on Command and Conscience
  • Author TONER, James H
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Praeger, New York
  • Publication date 1992
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # XX4085
  • ISBN 9780275942120 / 0275942120
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.48 x 6.3 x 0.77 in (24.08 x 16.00 x 1.96 cm)
  • Size xiv,186pp
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Christianity and politics, Conscience
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 91-32209
  • Dewey Decimal Code 172.42

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From the publisher

The Sword and the Cross is a study of the relationships that exist between politics and ethics. Its intention is to point out that moral convictions conceived and implemented without political wisdom can be bankrupt and that geopolitical strategy formulated and effected without ethical character can be disastrous. Toner contends that politics and ethics are different sides of the same coin. Therefore commanders (that is, leaders in politics and government, in diplomacy, and in the military) must develop both strategic sense and ethical intuition. A study of the relationship between the sacred and the profane, this book promotes an understanding of the ways in which power and purpose can--and must--be complementary.

This study concludes that violence and conflict are part of human existence and that full and final redemption from our struggles is the gift of grace--and not of human artifice. At the same time, we have the burden (and the glory) of doing all we can to achieve our own safety and happiness, which requires political and military prudence. The reconciliation of faith or conscience with power or command is the task of leaders who are informed by civic virtue. In turn, civic virtue is the product of wise education rooted in serious study of what ought to be as well as of what is; but ethically impoverished modern education too rarely asks questions about visions of the Good. Because these conclusions are rooted in a controversial religious and philosophical tradition, they will generally challenge the accepted views in the field.

About the author

JAMES H. TONER is Associate Professor of Political Science at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, where he teaches international politics and political philosophy. A graduate of the Infantry Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, he served on active duty as an Army officer from 1968-1972. He is the author of The American Military Ethic: A Meditation (Praeger, 1992) and has contributed articles and reviews to a number of scholarly and defense-related journals. Known as a superior classroom teacher, Toner has also served as Visiting Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the United States Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama.

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