Noli usque ad mortem: Augustine and the Death Penalty
Scholars do not agree on where Augustine exactly stands regarding capital punishment and whether his position is still relevant for debates today. This paper establishes Augustine's starting point for his considerations on the death penalty, identifies the scriptural input into his views, both...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2023
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Augustinian studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 54, Issue: 2, Pages: 177-202 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBE Anthropology NCA Ethics |
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| Summary: | Scholars do not agree on where Augustine exactly stands regarding capital punishment and whether his position is still relevant for debates today. This paper establishes Augustine's starting point for his considerations on the death penalty, identifies the scriptural input into his views, both critical and supportive of capital punishment, and, finally, examines how he approaches concrete cases of people facing the death penalty. On this basis, it makes a somewhat new proposal for understanding how Augustine sees capital punishment as legitimate in principle but problematic in concrete cases, in particular, cases involving the church. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-7917 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Augustinian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/augstudies202312581 |