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Justice and the Just War Tradition
Human worth, moral formation, and armed conflict.
Scholarship at the intersection of religion, politics, and war
Christopher J. Eberle is Distinguished Professor of Ethics at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the United States Naval Academy, where he has taught since 2001. His work explores the moral challenges posed by war, democratic citizenship, religious conviction, Christian moral judgment, and the formation of military leaders.
His books include Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics and Justice and the Just War Tradition: Human Worth, Moral Formation, and Armed Conflict. Recent and current work includes Love and Faith at War: Reflections on a Platoon Commander in Fallujah, "Love on the Ground: Reflections on Christian Faith and the Profession of Arms," and essays on C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien's engagement with the morality of war.
Featured work
Recent article
Love on the Ground
Christian faith and the profession of arms, published in the Journal of Religious Ethics.
Current manuscript
Love and Faith at War
Reflections on a platoon commander in Fallujah.
Unpublished papers
Working Papers Archive
Completed papers and lecture manuscripts on just war, obedience, military ethics, religion and liberal democracy, and Lewis and Tolkien.
Major areas of work
Religion and Liberal Democracy
Religious conviction, public reason, restraint, respect, liberal democracy, and the ethics of citizenship.
Ethics of War
Just war theory, human worth, proportionality, cyber war, supreme emergency, moral formation, and the profession of arms.
Lewis, Tolkien, and Moral Imagination
C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien on war, courage, proper emotion, love, hate, evil, and Christian moral judgment.