Destructive Obedience: U.S. Military Training and Culture as a Parody of Christian Discipleship
My essay "Destructive Obedience: U.S. Military Training and Culture as a Parody of Christian Discipleship," has (finally!) appeared in the latest issue of The Conrad Grebel Review 29.2 (Spring 2011): 4–30. A PDF of the essay is here. And here is an abstract:
Using the theme of “discipleship” found in the witness of the peace churches but neglected in Roman Catholic theology, this paper interrogates concrete practices of military training and culture in the contemporary United States. Viewed through the lens of discipleship, military training is described as a process of discipleship in its own right, including practices of conversion and deliberate conscience (de-) formation that are fundamentally at odds with Christian discipleship and ultimately destructive to both the soldier and the victims of the US military. American Catholics can learn much from the peace churches in terms of ecclesial praxis for resisting the "destructive obedience" that is central to military discipleship.
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