Includes bibliographical references.

The grace of doing nothing / H. Richard Niebuhr -- Must we do nothing? / Reinhold Niebuhr -- A communication : the only way into the kingdom of God / H. Richard Niebuhr -- Why the Christian Church is not pacifist / Reinhold Niebuhr -- War as the judgment of God / H. Richard Niebuhr -- Is God in the war? / Virgil C. Aldrich and H. Richard Niebuhr -- War as crucifixion / H. Richard Niebuhr -- The relation of the Church to the war in the light of the Christian faith / The Calhoun Commission (1944) -- The justice of the present war examinied / G.E.M. Anscombe -- The morality of obliteration bombing / John C. Ford -- Is Vietnam a just war? / Paul Ramsey -- The moral logic of war / Ralph B. Potter, Jr. -- A historical perspective on selective conscientious objection / LeRoy Walters -- Mr. Truman's decree [i.e. degree] / G.E.M. Anscomb -- Remarks on the moral problem of war / John Courtney Murray -- Freedom for life / Karl Barth -- A political ethics context for strategic thinking / Paul Ramsey -- Just-war doctrine in a nuclear context / William V. O'Brien.

Just-war criteria / James F. Childress -- The challenge of peace : God's promise and our response / U.S. Catholic Bishops -- Reflections on war and political discourse : realism, just war, and feminism in a nuclear age / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- In defense of creation : the nuclear crisis and a just peace / The United Methodist Council of Bishops (U.S.A.) -- Letter to President Bush : the Persian Gulf crisis / Daniel Pilarczyk, U.S. Catholic Bishops -- Just-war tradition and the war in the Gulf / James Turner Johnson -- An imperfectly just war / John Langan -- This war cannot be justified / Jim Wallis.