
Consistently Pro-Life
The Ethics of Bloodshed in Ancient Christianity
Rob Arner(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 1. July 2010
152 pages
978-1-62189-995-2 (ISBN)
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Consistently Pro-Life is a book about killing. Specifically, it takes up the question of when and under what circumstances is it morally justifiable for a Christian to take human life. The murder of abortionist Dr. George Tiller on Pentecost Sunday 2009 reignited the national debate over abortion by focusing attention on the seeming hypocrisy of those who would kill to defend life. But many times, those who would condemn the killing of Dr. Tiller would readily justify the killing of human beings in other circumstances. This leads to the question: What basis do we have to judge a specific act of violence as morally good or ethically justifiable in light of the gospel of Jesus Christ?
Rob Arner explores these issues and argues that the deliberate killing of any human being is incompatible with the moral life of a follower of Jesus. Readers will discover in the witness of the ancient Christian church an example of how modern Christians might consistently apply gospel precepts toward questions of the taking of human life. Through a new taxonomy that categorizes the ancient Christian witnesses according to individual issues such as abortion/infanticide, killing in war, and the bloody Roman "games," Consistently Pro-Life demonstrates that the early church consistently opposed the killing of human persons, and suggests that the discipline and moral clarity of the ancient Christians on issues of violence can show us a new way forward in a time of polarizing culture wars.
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Eugene
United States
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978-1-62189-995-2 (9781621899952)
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Rob Arner is a PhD candidate in Theology and Christian Ethics at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, and an adjunct professor at Chestnut Hill College.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part 1: Consistently Pro-Life?
- Chapter 1: Tragedy at Pentecost
- Chapter 2: Justifications for the Violence of Abortion
- Chapter 3: Justifications for Anti-Abortion Violence
- Chapter 4: Justifications for State-Sanctioned Violence
- Chapter 5: The Need for Consistency
- Part 2: The Ethics of Bloodshed in Ancient Christianity
- Chapter 6: Recovering an Ancient Church Teaching
- Chapter 7: Killing Our Children: Abortion and Infanticide
- Chapter 8: Killing for Fun: Roman Bloodsport and the "Spectacles"
- Chapter 9: Killing Ourselves: Suicide
- Chapter 10: Killing Our Enemies: War and Military Service
- Chapter 11: Faithful Christians Do Not Kill
- Chapter 12: The Virtue of Patience
- Chapter 13: Realized Eschatology
- Chapter 14: Martyrdom and the Way of the Cross
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: Reading List of Primary Source Documents
- Appendix B: A Lexicon of Esteem
- Appendix C: The Semantics of Oppression
- Modern Sources Cited
- Works Cited by or about Ancient Christians
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