The Historical Foundations of World Order
The Tower and the Arena
A detailed and insightful account of the history of international law.By Douglas M. Johnston
(Hotei Publishing, 2008)
Category: Books by the Fellows
The Tower and the Arena
A detailed and insightful account of the history of international law.By Douglas M. Johnston
(Hotei Publishing, 2008)
Category: Books by the Fellows
When there is no truth that deserves assent from everybody, the only arbiter in our competing desires is power. Where truth doesn’t define what’s right, might makes right. And where might makes right, weak people pay with their lives. When the universal claim of truth disappears, what you get is not peaceful pluralism or loving relationships; what you get is concentration camps and gulags.
John Piper, November 2006
Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945–1960: The Soul of Containment by William Inboden.
Trinity Forum Board of Advisors member William Inboden argues that the poor response of churches to the Cold War led Truman and Eisenhower to construct a new civil religion.
Life’s Living Toward Dying: A Theological and Medical-Ethical Study by Vigen Guroian.
Guroian evokes a classical Christian understanding of "living toward dying" as antidote both to denial of death and to its too-eager embrace of purely technical truth.
