Ronald H. Stone

Christian REALISM &PEACE-MAKING

ISSUES IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

RONALD H. STONE

In Christian Realism and Peacemaking, Ronald H. Stone demonstrates that Christian peacemaking efforts must be tinged with a healthy dose of realism-a la Reinhold Niebuhr-or they will degenerate into ineffectual sentimentalism. Clarifying the peacemaking tendencies of Christian realism, and how these tendencies might positively influence U.S. foreign policy, Stone focuses on:

The ethics of peacemaking

Human rights

The just-war tradition (including a discussion of the Methodist

bishops 1986 statement)

Revolution in Central America

Relations with Gorbachev's Soviet Union

Christian Realism and Peacemaking concludes with a state ment about the essential elements in any relevant church policy of peacemaking.

RONALD H. STONE is professor of social ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books, including Reinhold Niebuhr: Prophet to Politicians, published by Abingdon Press.