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This book collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913-1972), an historian and scholar of international relations.
List of contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1: Christian Pacifism and Correspondence
- 2: Christian Politics
- 3: John the Baptist and Redemption
- 4: History and the Harvest of Salvation
- 5: East and West over Five Centuries
- 6: How Christians Have Looked at History
- 7: Some Problems of History
- 8: Progress or Eschatology?
- 9: Christianity and the Philosophy of History
- 10: The Development of Christian Thought on Violence
- 11: Does Christianity Care for the World and How?
- 12: What difference should the fact of my being a Christian make to my understanding of history
- 13: Christianity and Suffering in History
- 14: The World Churches
- 15: God in History
- 16: God in the Nuclear Age
- 17: The Church, Russia, and the West
- 18: Christian Commentary
- 19: History and Judgement: Butterfield, Niebuhr, and the Technical Historian
- 20: History and the Social Sciences
- 21: The Nature of Man: The Traditional Doctrine of the Nature of Man and the Presuppositions of the Social Sciences
- 22: The Disunity of Mankind
- 23: The Crux for an Historian Brought Up in the Christian Tradition
- 24: Secular History
- 25: Some Reflections on the Historic Antichrist
- 26: Antichrist: Sources, Application, and Meaning
- 27: Antichrist in Secular History in Antiquity
- 28: The Tradition of Antichrist
- 29: Christian Interpretations of Antichrist
- 30: The Problem of the Historic Antichrist
- 31: Orwell and the Antichrist Myth
- 32: Antichrist and European Civilisation
- 33: Antichrist for the Newman Society
- 34: Antichrist Named in the Bible
- 35: Antichrist and Ambiguity
- 36: Reflection on Meaning and Eternity
- 37: The Function of a Philosophy of History
- Reviews by Martin Wight
About the author
Martin Wight was one of the most important twentieth century British scholars of International Relations. He taught at the London School of Economics (1949-1961) and the University of Sussex (1961-1972), where he served as the founding Dean of the School of European Studies. Wight is often associated with the British Committee on the Theory of International Politics and the so-called English School of International Relations.
Dr. David S. Yost is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. His books have been published by Harvard University Press, the United States Institute of Peace, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has held fellowships from Fulbright, NATO, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the United States Institute of Peace, and he was a senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2004-2007. He earned a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Southern California.
Summary
This book collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913-1972), an historian and scholar of international relations.
