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  • The New Dark Age

    Why Liberals Must Win the Culture Wars

    by Nigel Biggar ...
    In an increasingly polarised age, culture wars are everywhere. They are often criticised as superficial or confected disagreements designed to distract us from more important issues. Is this true, or are they rather more fundamental than that?In this thoughtful and passionate intervention, renowned theologian and moral philosopher Nigel Biggar argues that 'culture wars' are in fact political and ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Colonialism

    A Moral Reckoning

    by Nigel Biggar ...
    The Sunday Times BestsellerA new assessment of the West’s colonial recordIn the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and China rising to challenge the post-1945 world order, the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Reparations

    Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt

    by Nigel Biggar ...
    A Telegraph Book of the Year 2025'Compelling and timely' Tirthankar Roy'Essential reading' David EltisMany now claim that Western countries should pay reparations to former colonies for the lasting damage they caused, especially through slavery. Why is this claim being made now? How far does it make sense? And, more generally, how can historic wrongs be righted?Reparations removes the sloga... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Just War

    Authority, Tradition, and Practice

    by Anthony F. Lang Jr., Cian O'Driscoll, John Williams, James Turner Johnson, Chris Brown, Nigel Biggar, Laura Sjoberg, Nahed Artoul Zehr0, Tarik Kochi1, Gregory M. Reichberg2, Joseph Boyle3, Brent J. Steele4, Michael Gross5, Neta C. Crawford6, Martin L. Cook7, John Kelsay8, Nicholas Rengger9 ...
    The just war tradition is central to the practice of international relations, in questions of war, peace, and the conduct of war in the contemporary world, but surprisingly few scholars have questioned the authority of the tradition as a source of moral guidance for modern statecraft. Just War: Authority, Tradition, and Practice brings together many of the most important contemporary writers on ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Islands' Story

    by Nigel Biggar, Robert Tombs ...
    What story should Britain tell about itself?In recent years it has become fashionable to tell a certain kind of story about Britain. At its least offensive, this story emphasises the worst aspects of our nation's past while neglecting the best. At its most damaging, it denies or distorts the very fabric of Britain's collective inheritance.Our Islands' Story tells an altogether more honest, complex ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Between Kin and Cosmopolis

    An Ethic of the Nation

    by Nigel Biggar ...
    Series series The Didsbury Lectures Series
    The nation-state is here to stay. Thirty years ago it was fashionable to predict its imminent demise, but the sudden break-up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s unshackled long-repressed nationalisms and generated a host of new states. The closer integration of the European Union has given intra-national nationalisms a new lease of life, confirming the viability of small nation-states under a supra ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited

    Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty

    by Daniel R. Brunstetter, Jean-Vincent Holeindre, Aidan Hehir, Thomas Lindemann, Alex Giacomelli, Nigel Biggar, Kerstin Fisk, Jennifer M. Ramos, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer0, Deborah Avant1, John Kelsay2, John R. Emery3, Shannon E. French4, Victoria Sisk5, Caroline Bass6, Frédéric Ramel7, Brian Orend8, Cian O'Driscoll9 ...
    How do we frame decisions to use or abstain from military force? Who should do the killing? Do we need new paradigms to guide the use of force? And what does “victory” mean in contemporary conflict?In many ways, these are timeless questions. But they should be revisited in light of changing circumstances in the twenty-first century. The post–Cold War, post-9/11 world is one of contested and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What's Wrong with Rights?

    by Nigel Biggar ...
    Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Must the very notion of a right be individualistic, subverting the common good? Should the right against torture be absolute, even though the heavens fall? Are human rights universal or merely expressions of Western neo-imperial arrogance? Are rights ethically fundamental, proudly impervious to changing circumstances? ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • In Defence of War

    by Nigel Biggar ...
    Pacifism is popular. Many hold that war is unnecessary, since peaceful means of resolving conflict are always available, if only we had the will to look for them. Or they believe that war is wicked, essentially involving hatred of the enemy and carelessness of human life. Or they posit the absolute right of innocent individuals not to be deliberately killed, making it impossible to justify war in ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Future of Christian Realism

    International Conflict, Political Decay, and the Crisis of Democracy

    by Dallas Gingles, Joshua Mauldin, Rebekah L. Miles, Nigel Biggar, John P. Burgess, William P. George, Luping Huang, Elisabeth R. Kincaid0, Nathan McLellan1, Douglas F. Ottati2, Frederick Simmons3, Yoshibumi Takahashi4, Todd Whitmore5, Robin W. Lovin6, Gary Dorrien7, Kevin Carnahan8, Eric Gregory9, Simeon O. Ilesanmi0, Gerald McKenny1, Peter J. Paris2, William Schweiker3 ...
    Series series Faith and Politics: Political Theology in a New Key
    In the world’s most developed democracies, anxiety about the future of democracy is palpable. The tension between moral aspiration and moral despair has reached a point of crisis. Christian realism arose during a similar time of crisis, when Reinhold Niebuhr used the insights of the Christian tradition to interpret the clash between democracy and totalitarianism.Beginning with Robin Lovin’s ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Christian Citizenship in the Middle East

    Divided Allegiance or Dual Belonging?

    by Nigel Biggar, Issa Diab, Najib Awad, Ben Ryan, Casey Strine ...
    For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one. This collection of essays aims to reconcile this conflict of allegiance by looking at the biblical vision of citizenship and showing that Christians can live and work as citizens of the state ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Revival of Natural Law

    Philosophical, Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School

    by Nigel Biggar, Rufus Black ...
    Natural law theory has been enjoying a significant revival in recent times. Led by Germain Grisez in the USA and John Finnis in the UK, one school of thinkers has been articulating a highly developed system of natural law built upon a sophisticated account of practical reasoning and a rich and flexible understanding of the human good. However, long-standing prejudices against old-style natural law ... Read more

    $79.99 USD