Religion and the death penalty : a call for reckoning

Owens, Erik C. (Added Author). Carlson, John D. (John David) (Added Author). Elshtain, Eric P. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0802821723 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxiii, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, c2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Religion and capital punishment : an introduction / Erik C. Owens and Eric P. Elshtain -- 1. Cathloic teaching on the death penalty : has it changed? / Avery Cardinal Dulles -- 2. Can capital punishment ever be justified in the Jewish tradition? / David Novak -- 3. The death penalty : a Protestant perspective / Gilbert Meilaender -- 4. Punishing Christians : a pacifist approach to the issue of capital punishment / Stanley Hauerwas -- 5. The death penalty, mercy, and Islam : a call for retrospection / Khaled Abou El Fadl -- 6. Categorical pardon : on the argument for abolishing capital punishment / J. Budziszewski -- 7. Biblical perspectives on the death penalty / Michael L. Westmoreland-White and Glen H. Stassen -- 8. Christian witness, moral anthropology, and the death penalty / Richard W. Garnett --