Theology of American Statecraft: Just War

Dr. Jared Longshore, the Undergraduate Dean and Fellow of Theology at New Saint Andrews College lectured at an event titled, "Theology of American Statecraft: Just War." The event was presented by American Moment with co-sponsorship by New Saint Andrews College on May 15, 2024. The event was held at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Jon Askonas and U.S. Senator Ron Johnson also delivered lectures at the event, which concluded with a Q&A session open to the audience.
This dinner was part of American Moment's Theology of American Statecraft event series, which brings together like-minded Christians, both Protestants and Catholics, to discuss American statecraft. To learn more about American Moment, visit: www.americanmoment.org/
To learn more about New Saint Andrews College, visit: nsa.edu
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This was incredible as an intro to Just War theory, categories, principles, and a call to not be hypocrites. We need to start with our own sins, work to our marriages and our toddlers fighting in the backseat, to our churces and communities. Work on our logs, then neighbors's specks. Thanks.
The one question I have is how the theology of participation in the ideas of God relates to our own sin in perceiving the natural law patterns we should apply, and the degree of indirect godwardness necessary to bind consciences.
That is, the old VanTillian v Thomist debate. Can "by what standard" work if the tradition of the natural law in Protestantism is varied in when it solves for how precisely the divine law structure should be applied to ambiguities in our perception of natural law/Tao patterns? If it's not varied, take a test case and run it through various political thinkers and see if there's any diversity of applicaitons due to procedure, not just prudence.
Anyone who's looked at Voetius v Bahnsen v Burnside, and differences in procedure v. prudence in application of the frameworks to ethics? Amen to moving the Overton to trusting its possible to govern by God's standards and that we have a tradition of assuming it was possible, but the question of particularities is the understandably tricky next step when we're trying to replace the existing strange common law modernist apostasy with a new magisterial common law frame.
Got to know what time it is, and parent the toddlers. But at the level of NATO, it does seem that the advantage of the Bahnsen-style theocratic folks is a more regulated structure for establishing applications of justice in light of an apostasy in natural law perception that wasn't the case for Aquinas' context in writing the Summa, or much of the Overton of permissible natural law perceptions for Christendom among the Magisterials.