| Description |
xxiii, 294 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Eerdmans religion, ethics, and public life series |
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Eerdmans religion, ethics, and public life series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Religion and capital punishment : an introduction / Erik C. Owens, Eric P. Elshtain -- Catholic teaching on the death penalty : has it changed? / Avery Cardinal Dulles -- Can capital punishment ever be justified in the Jewish tradition? / David Novak -- The death penalty : a Protestant perspective / Gilbert Meilaender -- Punishing Christians : a pacifist approach to the issue of capital punishment / Stanley Hauerwas -- The death penalty, mercy, and Islam : a call for retrospection / Khaled Abou el Fadl -- Categorical pardon : on the argument for abolishing capital punishment / J. Budziszewski -- Biblical perspectives on the death penalty / Michael L. Westmoreland-White, Glen H. Stassen -- Christian witness, moral anthropology, and the death penalty / Richard W. Garnett -- Human nature, limited justice, and the irony of capital punishment / John D. Carlson -- Responsibility, vengeance, and the death penalty / Victor Anderson -- The death penalty : what's all the debate about? / Frank Keating -- Reflections on the death penalty and the moratorium / George H. Ryan -- God's justice and ours : the morality of judicial participation in the death penalty / Antonin Scalia -- Why I oppose capital punishment / Mario M. Cuomo -- Capital punishment : is it wise? / Paul Simon -- Facing the jury : the moral trials of a prosecutor in a capital case / Beth Wilkinson -- The problem of forgiveness : reflections of a public defender and a murder victim's family member / Jeanne Bishop -- Afterword : lifting new voices against the death penalty : religious Americans and the debate on capital punishment / E. J. Dionne Jr. |
| Subject |
Capital punishment -- Religious aspects -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Owens, Erik C.
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Carlson, John D. (John David)
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Elshtain, Eric P.
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| ISBN |
0802821723 paperback alkaline paper |
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