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Second edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (317 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Preface to the Second Edition (2014); Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: SORTING OUT THE ISSUES; Chapter 1: The Present Teaching of the Magisterium; Chapter 2: The Justification of Punishment; Part II: THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH'S TEACHING; Chapter 3: The Death Penalty and Scripture; Chapter 4: The Patristic Consensus; Chapter 5: The Medieval Testimony; Chapter 6: Sixteenth Century to the Present; Part III: RETHINKING THE CHURCH'S TRADITIONAL NOTION OF JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE; Chapter 7: Capital Punishment and the Development of Doctrine. |
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Chapter 8: Toward an Ethical Judgment that Capital Punishment Is Intrinsically WrongNotes; Bibliography; Index of Authors; Index of Subjects. |
| Summary |
"Why is the Catholic Church against the death penalty? This second edition of E. Christian Brugger's classic work Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition, available now in paperback for the first time, traces the doctrinal path the Church has taken over the centuries to its present position as the world's largest and most outspoken opponent of capital punishment. The pontificate of John Paul II marked a watershed in Catholic thinking. The pope taught that the death penalty is and can only be rightly assessed as a form of self-defense. But what does this mean? What are its implications for the Church's traditional retribution-based model of lethal punishment? How does it square with what the Church has historically taught? Brugger argues that the implications of this historic turn have yet to be fully understood. In his new preface, Brugger examines the contribution of the great Polish pope's closest collaborator and successor in the Chair of Peter, Pope Benedict XVI, to Catholic thinking on the death penalty. He argues that Pope Benedict maintained the doctrinal status quo of his predecessor's teaching on capital punishment as self-defense, with detectable point of reluctance to draw attention to nontraditional implications of that teaching."--Back cover |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
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Catholic Church. |
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Église catholique -- Doctrines. |
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Capital punishment -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Capital punishment -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. |
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Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Capital punishment. |
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Theology, Doctrinal. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Brugger, E. Christian (Eugene Christian), 1964- Capital punishment and Roman Catholic moral tradition. Second edition. Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame, ©2014 xxxi, 281 pages 9780268022419 |
| ISBN |
9780268075972 (e-book) |
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0268075972 (e-book) |
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9780268022419 |
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0268022410 |
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