Rachel Esplin Odell

RACHEL ESPLIN ODELL is a research analyst in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she helps coordinate several projects on US-China military relations.

Not a Rigid Framework | Patrick Q. Mason, J. David Pulsipher, and Richard L. Bushman, eds., War and Peace in Our Time: Mormon Perspectives

Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 4

The authors of this volume’s concluding essay argue that “Latter-day Saint theology does not constitute a rigid framework which insists on either an idealist or realist approach to war in the scheme of human existence” (262). It is this room for ambiguity that makes War and Peace in Our Time such a valuable contribution, as it highlights the diversity of perspectives on war and peace that can be informed by LDS teachings and history.