This book carefully argues for Wyclif's conceptual repudiation of major tenets of just war theory, practical skepticism about application of these tenets in the real world, and spiritual application of principles of martyrdom even in the realm of politics.
SPECULUM
Cox has made a compelling case for Wyclif's role in returning a principled Christological pacifism to the theological ... Read moreconversation in the later Middle Ages.
FIDES ET HISTORIA
Rory Cox has done an important service in producing the first book-length study of Wyclif's views on perennial themes: violence, war, and the prospect of peace. His generally limpid writing opens up Wyclif's dense and scattered arguments to a broad audience of readers, and his case for Wyclif as the first medieval pacifist is credible and well argued.
CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW
Clear and comprehensive in the way it brings together and sets out complex ideas and arguments gleaned from a wide variety of Wyclif's work...this study should be of the greatest interest to a wide readership, students of the history of war ... philosophers, politicians, soldiers and others as they debate whether war can ever be 'just'...or not.
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