The Sword, the Cross, and the Eagle: The American Christian Just War Tradition
by Davis Brown

Published by: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008
ISBN: 978-0742562592

Abstract
The Sword, the Cross, and the Eagle explores how Christian principles and the natural law tradition consider the use of military force and how they support the just war tradition over other moral traditions of war. By promoting the use of offensive war as justifiable under a just war rationale, the book challenges the Christian community’s basic assumptions regarding the use of force.