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Title Religion and the death penalty : a call for reckoning / edited by Erik C. Owens, John D. Carlson, and Eric P. Elshtain.

Publication Info. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 2004.

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 Moore Stacks  HV8694 .C229 2004    Available  ---
Description xxiii, 294 pages ; 24 cm.
Series The Eerdmans religion, ethics, and public life series
Eerdmans religion, ethics, and public life series.
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.
Capital punishment -- Religious aspects.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Owens, Erik C.
Carlson, John D. (John David)
Elshtain, Eric P.
ISBN 0802821723 paperback alkaline paper
9780802821720 paperback alkaline paper