Religion and the Death Penalty : A Call for Reckoning

, by Owens, Erik C.; Carlson, John D.; Elshtain, Eric P.; Budziszewski, Mario Cuomo (CON); Dionne, E. J. (CON)

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ISBN: 9780802821720 | 0802821723
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Copyright: 8/1/2004

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Supplemental Materials

Series Foreword

viii

Foreword

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Preface

xiii

Contributors

xvi

Religion and Capital Punishment: An Introduction

(22)

Erik C. Owens

Eric P. Elshtain

I: Faith Traditions and the Death Penalty

Catholic Teaching on the Death Penalty: Has It Changed?

(8)

Avery Cardinal Dulles

Can Capital Punishment Ever Be Justified in the Jewish Tradition?

(17)

David Novak

The Death Penalty: A Protestant Perspective

(9)

Gilbert Meilaender

Punishing Christians: A Pacifist Approach to the Issue of Capital Punishment

(16)

Stanley Hauerwas

The Death Penalty, Mercy, and Islam: A Call for Retrospection

(36)

Khaled Abou El Fadl

II: Theological Reflections on the Death Penalty

Categorical Pardon: On the Argument for Abolishing Capital Punishment

109

(14)

J. Budziszewski

Biblical Perspectives on the Death Penalty

123

(16)

Michael L. Westmoreland-White

Glen H. Stassen

Christian Witness, Moral Anthropology, and the Death Penalty

139

(19)

Richard W. Garnett

Human Nature, Limited Justice, and the Irony of Capital Punishment

158

(37)

John D. Carlson

Responsibility, Vengeance, and the Death Penalty

195

(18)

Victor Anderson

III: Personal Commitments and Public Responsibilities

The Death Penalty: What's All the Debate About?

213

(8)

Frank Keating

Reflections on the Death Penalty and the Moratorium

221

(10)

George H. Ryan

God's Justice and Ours: The Morality of Judicial Participation in the Death Penalty

231

(9)

Antonin Scalia

Why I Oppose Capital Punishment

240

(8)

Mario M. Cuomo

Capital Punishment: Is It Wise?

248

(6)

Paul Simon

Facing the Jury: The Moral Trials of a Prosecutor in a Capital Case

254

(10)

Beth Wilkinson

The Problem of Forgiveness: Reflections of a Public Defender and a Murder Victim's Family Member

264

(13)

Jeanne Bishop

Afterword: Lifting New Voices against the Death Penalty: Religious Americans and the Debate on Capital Punishment

277

(6)

E. J. Dionne Jr.

Index

283

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