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Sharing his understanding of the dictates of Just War Theory for Christians who found themselves in the midst of one of our previous “War(s) on Terror,” the prominent evangelical apologist for “a generous orthodoxy,” Tony Campolo, considered John Calvin’s elaborations of the classic understanding established by Augustine in organizing the theory into six points or elements: 1) the justness of the cause of the conflict (reason for going to war); 2) the lawfulness (the enlisting of international allies in accord with international law) of the declaration of war; 3) the exhaustion of diplomacy before the declaration of war; 4) an expectation of universal blessings from success; 5) the practice of force proportionate to the desired outcome and 6) the outweighing of the damage/harm caused by the mere waging of war by the good accomplished through conflict (Red Letter Christians, Campolo, p. 58).
