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John Kelsay

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PhD Philosophy University of Notre Dame
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According to Wikipedia, John Kelsay is an author and a Research Professor and Richard L. Rubenstein Professor of Religion at Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. in 1985 in Ethics from University of Virginia. He mainly focuses on religious ethics, particularly in relation to the Islamic and Christian traditions. His research interests include comparative religious ethics, political ethics, and religion and war.

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John Kelsay's Published Works

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Arguing the Just War in Islam (2007) (115)
Just War and Jihad: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on War and Peace in Western and Islamic Traditions (1991) (83)
Islam and War: A Study in Comparative Ethics (1993) (57)
Cross, Crescent, and Sword: The Justification and Limitation of War in Western and Islamic Tradition (1990) (53)
Human Rights and the Conflict of Cultures: Western and Islamic Perspectives on Religious Liberty (1988) (36)
Al-Shaybani and the Islamic Law of War (2003) (31)
THE PRESENT STATE OF THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS ETHICS: An Update (2012) (22)
RESPONSE TO PAPERS FOR “ETHNOGRAPHY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND COMPARATIVE RELIGIOUS ETHICS” FOCUS (2010) (17)
Martin Luther: Confessor of the Faith (2009) (13)
DEMOCRATIC VIRTUE, COMPARATIVE ETHICS, AND CONTEMPORARY ISLAM (2005) (12)
Responsibility and moral reasoning: A study in Business Ethics (1986) (11)
James Turner Johnson, Just War Tradition, and Forms of Practical Reasoning (2009) (10)
One. Civil Society and Government in Islam (2009) (9)
Just War, Jihad, and the Study of Comparative Ethics (2010) (7)
Islamic tradition and the justice of war (2006) (6)
Prayer and Ethics: Reflections on Calvin and Barth (1989) (6)
Politics and Religion in France and the United States (2007) (5)
Response to Bucar and Stalnaker (2014) (5)
Just War Thinking as a Social Practice (2013) (5)
COMPARISON AND HISTORY IN THE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS ETHICS: An Essay on Michael Cook's Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought1 (2007) (4)
Muslim Discourse on Rebellion (2013) (3)
Religion and morality in Islam : a proposal concerning ethics in the formative period (1985) (3)
Civil Society and Government in Islam (3)
Nigel Biggar’s In Defence of War: A Review Essay (2014) (2)
Violence in Early Islam: Religious Narratives, the Arab Conquests, and the Canonization of Jihad By Marco Demichelis (2022) (2)
Al-Qaida as a Muslim (Religio-Political) Movement Remarks on James L. Gelvin's “Al-Qaeda and Anarchism: A Historian's Reply to Terrorology” (2008) (2)
Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide: Identity and Moral Choice (review) (2012) (2)
Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide: Identity and Moral Choice, Kristen Renwick Monroe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), xiii + 437 pp., hardcover $75.00/£52.00, paperback $35.00/£24.95, e-book available. (2012) (2)
Islam and the Study of Ethics (2012) (2)
War and Religion (2013) (2)
Political Practice: The Nexus Between Realisms and Just War Thinking (2015) (1)
Ethics in the Islamic Tradition on War (2015) (1)
The Just War Argument in Islam (Who’s Up? Who’s Down?) (2014) (1)
Islam and Medical Ethics (1994) (1)
On Fighting as An Individual Duty in Islam (2016) (1)
Editor's Comments on the Comparative Study of Religious Ethics Essays (2008) (1)
Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century . Edited by D. R. SarDesai and Raju G. C. Thomas. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xvii, 316 pp. $59.95 (cloth). (2003) (1)
Editors' Note: Editors' Note (2011) (1)
2012: History of Christian Thought; History of Jewish Thought; Theory and Method in the Study of Religion; Religious Epistemology in the 16 th Century (2014) (1)
Islamist Movements and Shari‘a Reasoning (2009) (1)
Religion and Religious War (2007) (1)
Islam, Sharia and Alternative Dispute Resolution: Mechanisms for Legal Redress in the Muslim Community By Mohamed M. Keshavjee (2015) (0)
Book Review:Love Your Enemies: Discipleship, Pacifism, and Just War Theory Lisa Sowle Cahill (1996) (0)
Islam and Christianity in the Works of Gentili, Grotius, and Pufendorf (2012) (0)
THE NEW JIHAD AND ISLAMIC TRADITION (2009) (0)
Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction: “Do Not Violate the Limit”: Three Issues in Islamic Thinking on Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004) (0)
The First Crusade: A New History . By Thomas Asbridge. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvi + 408 pp. $35.00 cloth. (2006) (0)
DAVID COOK Understanding Jihad (Berkeley, Calif./Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005). Pp. 269. $19.95 paper (2007) (0)
Book Review: Creation and the God of Abraham (2011) (0)
Arguments Concerning Resistance in Contemporary Islam (2020) (0)
Contributors (2015) (0)
Book Review: A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of Ethics (1992) (0)
Biggar’s Critique of Christian Pacifism, Extended (2015) (0)
Comparative Studies of Religion and Violence: Perspectives on the Current State of Scholarly Conversation (2015) (0)
Book Review: The Moral Theology of Roger Williams: Christian Convictions and Public Ethics (2006) (0)
RESPONSE TO: "Cultivating a Liberal Islamic Ethos, Building an Islamic Civil Society" (2007) (0)
War (Just War, Holy War) (2020) (0)
Implications for Democracy and Tradition for Comparative Religious Ethics (2004) (0)
Piety, Politics, and the Limits Set by God: Implications of Islamic Political Thought for Christian Theology (2018) (0)
Muslim Discourse about Jihad and the Counter-narratives Project (2015) (0)
Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics . By Stephen J. Grabill. Emory University Studies in Law and Religion. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2006. x + 275 pp. $38.00 paper. (2008) (0)
From Judaism to Calvinism: The Life and Writings of Immanuel Tremillius (c. 1510–1580). By Kenneth Austin. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate, 2007. xxiv + 223 pp. $99.95 cloth. (2010) (0)
God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition. By John WitteJr. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2006. xiv + 498 pp. $30.00 paper. (2007) (0)
The Comparative Study of Ethics and the Project of the Justpeace (2015) (0)
Just War and Legal Restraints (2013) (0)
War and Peace in Islam: A Critique of Islamic/ist Political Discourses by S.M Farid Mirbagheri (review) (2014) (0)
John Calvin as Teacher, Pastor, and Theologian: The Shape of His Writings and Thought. By Randall C. Zachman. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2006. 283 pp. $24.99 cloth. (2007) (0)
Universalism Vs. Relativism: Making Moral Judgments in a Changing, Pluralistic, and Threatening World (2006) (0)
Principles of Protection in Warfare under Islamic Law of War (2019) (0)
Review: International Human Rights and Islamic Law (2005) (0)
The Muslim Law of War and Peace (2016) (0)
Divine Commands and Social Order: The Case of Classical Islam (1990) (0)
Introduction to Little/Sachedina Conversation (2015) (0)
Book Review:The Quest for Peace: Three Moral Traditions in Western Cultural History James Turner Johnson (1989) (0)
The Islamic Law of War: Justifications and Regulations By Ahmed Al-Dawoody (2015) (0)
Contributors (2012) (0)

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