Paul Ramsey
Paul Ramsey (born December 10, 1913 in Mendenhall , Mississippi , † February 29, 1988 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was an American Methodist theologian and bioethicist .
Ramsey initiated a renaissance of just war theory in the 1960s with the application of the criteria of discrimination and proportionality to the nuclear debate and the Vietnam War .
Ramsey was Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University and is one of the founders of bioethics with his book The Patient as Person .
Works
- War and the Christian Conscience: How Shall Modern War Be Conducted Justly? Durham, North Carolina 1961
- The Just War: Force and Political Responsibility , New York 1968
- The patient as person. explorations in medical ethics , (3) 1973 New Haven, Connecticut
- Speak Up for Just War or Pacifism. A Critique of the United Methodist Bishops' Pastoral Letter "In Defense of Creation". Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988
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| SURNAME | Ramsey, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Protestant theologian and bioethicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mendenhall , Mississippi |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 29, 1988 |
| Place of death | Princeton , New Jersey |