Civil disobedience and political obligation;: A study in Christian social ethics

Dustjacket “Too often it has been assumed that civil disobedience requires no justification or that it is insignificant in the wake of revolutionary violence. This vigorous investigation, while acknowledging that the situations in which such resistance arises are frequently so emotion-packed that objectivity is almost impossible, nevertheless insists that the intellectual procedures and principles for justifying it cannot be discarded. Supporting its analysis with specific examples which range from Thoreau to Gandhi to the Catonsville 9, it is an exploratory examination of a living phenomenon in the light of theological-ethical reasoning.”