Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition. By E. Christian Brugger. Pp. xii + 281. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. isbn 0 268 02359 X. 50
Given Roman Catholicism's increased emphasis on pro-life issues at the close of the twentieth century it was hardly surprising that, amid calls for a consistent ethic of life, the Catholic Church would have to tone down its traditional teaching on capital punishment. For centuries the Catholic...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 813-815 |
| Review of: | Capital punishment and Roman Catholic moral tradition (Notre Dame, Ind. : Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2003) (Clague, Julie)
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| Summary: | Given Roman Catholicism's increased emphasis on pro-life issues at the close of the twentieth century it was hardly surprising that, amid calls for a consistent ethic of life, the Catholic Church would have to tone down its traditional teaching on capital punishment. For centuries the Catholic Church not only tolerated the death penalty, it was a strong advocate of its use by the state. But traditional arguments based on retribution and legitimate authority had begun to look morally threadbare when compared with Catholicism's identification of the dignity of the human person as the criterion of morality. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fll063 |