Theological Responses to the War against Ukraine

A Reply to Joshua Searle

Abstract

This article seeks to place the war against Ukraine in its wider global, political, and theological contexts. The paper demonstrates how Russia’s war against Ukraine is a theological problem, considers Joshua Searle's questions about ethics in this light, and places these questions in the wider pacifist versus just war debate.  It argues that the notion of a just war, in this or any context, lacks both utility in political terms and faithfulness in theological terms.