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"Jesus said, 'Love your enemy.' Jesus didn't say, 'Execute the hell out of the enemy,'" the Catholic nun and anti–death penalty activist tells Reason.
In his 1995 encyclical titled Evangelium vitae (The Gospel of Life), Pope John Paul II suggested that capital punishment should be avoided unless it is the only way to defend society from the offender in question, opining that punishment "ought not go to the extreme of executing the offender except in cases of absolute necessity: in other words ...
Douglas W. Kennard, a Professor of Theology and Philosophy at the Houston Graduate School of Theology, wrote with regard to Christian reconstructionism, that Christians of non-Calvinist traditions, such as some "Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, [and] Orthodox", would be "under threat of capital punishment as fostered by the extreme Theonomist."
Christian tradition from the New Testament have come to a range of conclusions about the permissibility and social value of capital punishment. [14] While some Christians hold the view that a strict reading of certain texts [ 15 ] forbids executions, other Christians point to various verses in the New Testament which seem to endorse the ...
Capital punishment in the Bible refers to instances in the Bible where death is called for as a punishment and also instances where it is proscribed or prohibited. A case against capital punishment can be made from John 8, where Jesus speaks words that can be construed as condemning the practice. [ 1 ]
The Scottish Churches and the Political Process Today, Alison Elliot and Duncan B. Forrester (eds.), 1987. (Google Books) Discerning Images: The Media and Theological Education, Derek Weber, 1991. (Google Books) The End of Punishment: Christian Perspectives on the Crisis in Criminal Justice, Chris Wood, 1991. ISBN 978-0-86153-145-5
Throughout the Early Middle Ages, the Catholic Church generally opposed the use of torture during criminal proceedings. This is evident from a letter sent by Pope Nicholas I to Khan Boris of the Bulgars in AD 866, delivered in response to a series of questions from the former and concerned with the ongoing Christianisation of Bulgaria.
Capital Christian, wrecked reputationally and financially by self-serving, egotistic leaders, will soon be taken over by Destiny’s own self-serving, egotistic leadership team.