Faith and Force is being used successfully as a student textbook for both undergraduate and postgraduate classes.
Glen Stassen, Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics, Fuller Theological Seminary, comments: "I used Faith and Force as a required text in my peacemaking course and it works nicely. It's clear, well-written, mutually respectful, and helps students see both pacifism and just war fairly, as well as relating both paradigms to numerous concrete issues and wars. They read Yoder, The Politics of Jesus and US Catholic Bishops, The Challenge of Peace beforehand, and Faith and Force brought it together well. Then we went on to my Just Peacemaking: The New Paradigm for the Ethics of Peace and War."
In a Commonweal podcast on the book, Paul Lauritzen comments: "One of the things I think about this book is that it would be a really marvellous book to use the in classroom or to introduce anyone to issues of Christian debates about the use of force and war. So I'm just thrilled to have this resource available and I'm likely to be using it in class." (Listen to the full podcast).
In a review in Reviews in Religion and Theology 15:3 (2008), 321Ð4, Craig Hovey writes: "An innovative and eminently effective way of presenting the ethics of war and peace...Clough and Stiltner have produced what must be one of the most pedagogically useful texts on the Christian deliberation over war."
To help with using the book in a classroom context, you can download questions on each chapter for reflection and discussion, either in PDF format or as a Microsoft Word document.
If you have feedback about using the book to teach with that we could use to improve future editions, we'd love to hear from you. Contact details are linked from the authors page.