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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820486103321

Autore

Potholm Christian P.

Titolo

Understanding war : an annotated bibliography / / Christian P. Potholm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-7618-6774-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (720 p.)

Collana

The War Trilogy ; ; Volume 3

Disciplina

016.35502

Soggetti

War

War - History

Military art and science - History

Military art and science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; I: Analyzing Warfare; 1 Why Study Military Matters?; 2 Eros and Mars: The Nature of Humankind;  or, Making Love and War; 3 The Search for Fundamental Truths about War; 4 Geopolitics and the Long Shadow of Geography; 5 The Template of Mars; Superior Weapons and Technological Entrepreneurship; Superior Discipline; Sustained but Controlled Ruthlessness; Receptivity to Military and Integrative Innovation; The Ability and Willingness to Protect Capital from People and Rulers; The Centrality of Superior Will; The Belief That There Will Always Be Another War

6 The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb or, Hiroshima as Seen through the Lens of Mars; 7 Mars Is a Jealous God, Part 1; 8 Is the Template Obsolete in the Face of Insurgencies?; Theoreticians and Practitioners; Overviews of Insurgency; Some Illustrative Case Studies: Showing the Experience of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency across Cross-Cultural Lines; 9 The American "Empire" and the Dangers That Lie Ahead; The Empire as Empire (or Hegemon); The Nuclear Dimension; China; Failed and Fragile States; Islamic Radical Salafists and Local and Global Insurgencies

Afghanistan: Watch on the Danube ReduxII: Topics in War; 10 Early Warfare; 11 Classical Infantry; 12 Classical Infantry; 13 The Horsemen



Cometh; Part I: The Mounted Horsemen of the Steppes; Part II: European Heavy Horse: Feudalism and Knighthood, Power Diffusion and Its Consequences, and Later Power Centralization; Part III: Byzantium; Part IV: African Heavy Horse: Power Centralization and Power Diffusion; Part V: Arab Light(er) Horse: Flow and Ebb, Ebb and Flow; Part VI: Japanese and Chinese Horsemen; Part VII: Parthian and Sassanian Horsemen

Part VIII: Mongol and Later Turkic Asian HorsemenPart IX: Indian and South Asian Horsemen; 14 The Vikings; 15 The Gunpowder and Discipline Revolution and the Expansion of the Gunpowder Empires; 16 Era of the European Great Captains; Maurice of Nassau (1567-1625); Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632); The Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722); Charles XII (1682-1718); Louis XIV (1638-1715); Frederick the Great (1712-1786); 17 Warfare on the Periphery and the Expansion of the European Gunpowder Empires; 18 Revolution and Civil War; 19 The Real United States Is Born; American Military History (General)

War of 1812The Mexican War; 20 Further Democratization of War; 21 The American Civil War; 22 Civil Wars in Perspective; Some Illustrative Examples; 23 Precursors to 20th-Century War; 24 World War I; 25 Transition within the Continuum; 26 The Battle of Nomonhan/Khalkin Gol; 27 The Triumph of the Offense; ; 28 World War II; 29 The Cold War and Nuclear Weapons, 1946-1992; 30 The Korean War; or, The Forgotten War of Great Irony; 31 Vietnam; 32 Mars Is a Jealous God, Part II; Afghanistan I and II; Iraq Wars II and III; 33 Weapons in War; 34 Logistics in War; 35 The Daughters of Mars

36 Homosexuality and Warfare

Sommario/riassunto

Understanding War divides war material into eighteen overarching themes of analysis and fifty seminal topics. In the process, it gives the reader access to the broadest possible array of material across both time and space, beginning with the earliest forms of warfare and concluding with the contemporary situation.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973130803321

Autore

Gibson David <1975->

Titolo

Reading the decree : exegesis, election and Christology in Calvin and Barth / David Gibson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : T & T Clark, 2009

ISBN

9786612466625

9780567381224

0567381226

9781472549983

1472549988

9781282466623

1282466623

9780567552365

0567552365

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

T & T Clark studies in systematic theology

Disciplina

230.01

Soggetti

Election (Theology)

Salvation - Christianity - History of doctrines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Calvin, Barth, and Christocentrism -- Introduction -- 1. Christ and election -- 1.1 A theological distinction -- 2. Exegesis and election -- 2.2 A hermeneutical distinction -- 3. On comparing Calvin and Barth -- 4. Plan of the present study -- Chapter 2: Christology and Election -- Introduction -- 1. Jesus Christ as the Subject of Election -- 1.1. Christ as author -- 1.2. The trinitarian basis of election in Calvin -- 1.3. Christ as electing God -- 1.4. The trinitarian basis of election in Barth -- 2. Jesus Christ as the Object of Election -- 2.1. Christ as the Mediator of election itself -- 2.2. Christ as the Mediator of salvation flowing from election -- 2.3. Christ as elected man -- Conclusion: Trinity and Election -- Chapter 3: Community and Election -- Introduction -- 1. Calvin on Israel and the church -- 2. Barth on the



community -- 3. Romans 9:1-23 -- 4. Romans 9:24-11:36 -- Conclusion: Covenant and Election -- Chapter 4: Hermeneutics and Election -- Introduction -- 1. The hermeneutics of election in Calvin -- 1.1. The location of Christology -- 1.2. The location of election -- 1.3. Christology and election -- 1.4. Christology and revelation -- 2. The hermeneutics of election in Barth -- 2.1. Election and Epistemology -- 2.2. Scripture as witness to revelation -- 2.3. Jesus Christ: Scripture's object and content -- 2.4. Mediatio: Scripture's parts and Scripture's whole -- Conclusion: Revelation and Election -- Conclusions -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

What role does the interpretation of Scripture play in theological construction? In Reading the Decree David Gibson examines the exegesis of election in John Calvin and Karl Barth, and considers the relationship between election and Christology in their thought. He argues that for both Calvin and Barth their doctrine of election and its exegetical moorings are christologically shaped, but in significantly different ways. Building on Richard A. Muller's conceptual distinction between Calvin's soteriological christocentrism and Barth's principial christocentrism, Gibson carefully explores their exegesis of the topics of Christ and election, and the election of Israel and the church. This distinction is then further developed by showing how it has a corresponding hermeneutical form: extensive christocentrism (Calvin) and intensive christocentrism (Barth). By focussing on the reception of biblical texts Reading the Decree draws attention to the neglected exegetical foundations of Calvin's doctrine of election, and makes a fresh contribution to current debates over election in Barth's thought. The result is a study which will be of interest to biblical scholars, as well as historical and systematic theologians alike.