Dr Joel Hodge, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University, has written an extremely important book on the threat to the stability of the global human city posed by terror, violence and militant jihadism. The book is a masterly dissection of this complex and disconcerting topic: a deeply traumatising topic when encountered in the flesh. Part of the deep puzzle arises from our incapacity to begin to understand the inversion of values that redescribes the death of innocents as not only a good thing, but mandated and required to bring about some further…