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When and How Should We Respond to Unjust Laws? A Thomistic Analysis of Civil Disobedience

Keith D. Wyma argues that a coherent, well-grounded Christian perspective on civil dis- obedience is possible, and can be found in the work of Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas gives crisp guidelines regarding when civil disobedience could be morally allowable—or even obligatory—and supplies a “test” to determine whether a given method of disobedience is morally appropriate. The…
Keith D. Wyma
January 15, 2014