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    Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics.Christopher J. Eberle - 2002 - Cambridge University Press.
    What role should a citizen's religious convictions play in her political activities? Is she, for example, permitted to decide on the basis of her religious convictions to support laws that criminalize abortion or discourage homosexual relations? Christopher Eberle is deeply at odds with the dominant orthodoxy among political theorists about the relation of religion and politics. His argument is that a citizen may responsibly ground her political commitments on religious beliefs, even if her only reasons for her political commitments are (...)
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    Basic human worth and religious restraint.Christopher J. Eberle - 2009 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 35 (1-2):151-181.
    The Doctrine of Religious Restraint is the claim that citizens and officials in a liberal democracy should not support coercive laws that they know to require a religious rationale. The most prominent argument for the Doctine of Religious Restraint appeals to the claim that we ought to treat each person as having basic worth: citizens and officials ought to obey the Doctrine of Religious Restraint because doing so is required in order for them to respect their compatriots as persons who (...)
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    Just War and Cyberwar.Christopher J. Eberle - 2013 - Journal of Military Ethics 12 (1):54-67.
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    Religion and liberal democracy.Christopher J. Eberle - 2002 - In Robert L. Simon (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 292–318.
    The prelims comprise: Justificatory Liberalism Justificatory vs. Mere Liberalism Why Public Justification? The Argument from Respect Evaluation of Larmore's Argument from Respect A General Problem for the Argument from Respect The Argument from Religious Warfare The Argument from Divisiveness What Is Public Justification? Conclusion Notes Bibliography.
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    Irreconcilable Disagreement.Christopher J. Eberle - 2021 - Social Theory and Practice 47 (3):457-484.
    John Rawls’s articulation of what makes for justice in war includes one of his most interesting, yet least discussed, assessments of religion and state coercion. Rawls claims that “the duties of the statesman in political liberalism” are incompatible with adherence to “the Catholic doctrine of double effect” when that doctrine precludes the deliberate targeting of innocent and harmless human beings in a “supreme emergency.” I explicate Rawls’s argument in favor of that claim, articulate various theological objections, and assess some proposed (...)
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    Religion, pacifism, and the doctrine of restraint.Christopher J. Eberle - 2006 - Journal of Religious Ethics 34 (2):203-224.
    The doctrine of restraint is the claim that citizens and legislators ought to restrain themselves from making political decisions solely on religious grounds. That doctrine is normally construed as a general constraint on religious arguments: an exclusively religious rationale "as such" is an inappropriate basis for a political decision, particularly a coercive political decision. However, the most common arguments for the doctrine of restraint fail to show that citizens and legislators ought to obey the doctrine of restraint, as we can (...)
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    Justice and the Just War Tradition: Human Worth, Moral Formation, and Armed Conflict.Christopher J. Eberle - 2016 - Routledge.
    _Justice and the Just War Tradition_ articulates a distinctive understanding of the reasons that can justify war, of the reasons that cannot justify war, and of the role that those reasons should play in the motivational and attitudinal lives of the citizens, soldiers, and statesmen who participate in war. Eberle does so by relying on a robust conception of human worth, rights, and justice. He locates this theoretical account squarely in the Just War Tradition. But his account is not merely (...)
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    Ought the Mighty To Punish Blasphemers?Christopher J. Eberle - 2016 - Journal of Analytic Theology 4:390-394.
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    Rights, Goods, and Proportionate War.Christopher J. Eberle - 2016 - The Monist 99 (1):70-86.
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    Why restraint is religiously unacceptable.Christopher J. Eberle - 1999 - Religious Studies 35 (3):247-276.
    I begin this essay by articulating an argument in support of the claim that theistic citizens ought not to support coercive policies for which they lack an adequate secular rationale. That argument employs various claims regarding God's nature to show: (i) that theistic citizens should expect to discern secular corroboration for each religiously grounded moral truth to which they adhere; and (ii) theistic citizens should doubt any religiously grounded moral claim for which they cannot discern an adequate secular rationale. I (...)
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  11. Basic human worth : Religious and secular perspectives.Christopher J. Eberle - 2008 - In Yujin Nagasawa & Erik Wielenberg (eds.), New waves in philosophy of religion. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 167.
     
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    Comments on Carnahan, Anderson, and Wolterstorff.Christopher J. Eberle - 2013 - Philosophia 41 (2):437-445.
    In this paper, I reflect on a number of issues raised in Kevin Carnahan’s “Religion, and not just Religious Reasons, in the Public Square: A Consideration of Robert Audi’s and Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Religion in the Public Square” and Eric A. Anderson’s “Religiously Conservative Citizens and the Ideal of Conscientious Engagement: A Comment on Wolterstorff and Eberle.” In response to Carnahan, I argue that recent discussions of the proper public role of religious reason do not depend on an objectionable conception of (...)
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    God, War, and Conscience.Christopher J. Eberle - 2007 - Journal of Religious Ethics 35 (3):479-507.
    Many military officers believe that they morally ought to obey legal orders to fight even in unjust wars: they have a moral obligation to exercise indiscriminate obedience to legal orders to fight. I argue that officers should not be required to exercise indiscriminate obedience: certain theistic commitments to which many citizens and officers adhere prohibit indiscriminate obedience to legal orders to fight. This theistic argument constitutes adequate reason not to require officers to exercise indiscriminate obedience. However, this raises a further (...)
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    Religious conviction in the profession of arms.Christopher J. Eberle & Rick Rubel - 2012 - Journal of Military Ethics 11 (3):171-185.
    Abstract Many political theorists have argued that religious reasons should play a rather limited role in public or political settings. So, for example, according to the Doctrine of Religious Restraint, citizens and legislators ought not allow religious reasons to play a decisive role in justifying public policies. Many military professionals seem to believe that some version of that doctrine applies in military settings, that is, that military professionals should not allow their religious convictions to determine how they exercise command authority. (...)
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    Shari’a Reasoning and the Justice of Religious War.Christopher J. Eberle - 2012 - Philosophia 40 (2):195-211.
    Most contemporary advocates of the Just War Tradition (JWT) condemn religious war. If they are correct, waging war should be a secular affair, fully justifiable on non-religious grounds. This secularized understanding of the JWT draws on normative commitments that lead many political theorists to advocate in favor of a secularized politics in western liberal polities. As a matter of historical fact and contemporary commitment, many Muslims have rejected the secularized conception of the morality of war found in contemporary conceptions of (...)
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    Audi, Robert. Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 192. $39.95. [REVIEW]Christopher J. Eberle - 2013 - Ethics 123 (4):745-750.
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    A. C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan:Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan. [REVIEW]Christopher J. Eberle - 2007 - Ethics 117 (2):356-363.
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    Book ReviewsLucas Swaine,. The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism.New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Pp. xix+215. $35.00. [REVIEW]Christopher J. Eberle - 2006 - Ethics 116 (4):813-819.
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    Book ReviewsPaul Weithman,. Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xi+227. $65.00. [REVIEW]Christopher J. Eberle - 2006 - Ethics 116 (3):611-614.