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Series Foreword p. viii Foreword Jean Bethke Elshtain p. x Preface p. xiii Contributors p. xvi Religion and Capital Punishment: An Introduction Erik C. Owens and Eric P. Elshtain p. 1 I Faith Traditions and the Death Penalty 1. Catholic Teaching on the Death Penalty: Has It Changed? Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. p. 23 2. Can Capital Punishment Ever Be Justified in the Jewish Tradition? David Novak p. 31 3. The Death Penalty: A Protestant Perspective Gilbert Meilaender p. 48 4. Punishing Christians: A Pacifist Approach to the Issue of Capital Punishment Stanley Hauerwas p. 57 5. The Death Penalty, Mercy, and Islam: A Call for Retrospection Khaled Abou El Fadl p. 73 II Theological Reflections on...
A lavishly-illustrated social history of the manufacture that did most to transform the character of New England and of America.
In the late 1970s, idealistic college grad Charlotte met Amish bad boy Uri Stoltzfus while visiting relatives in small-town Pennsylvania. Her encounters with Uri changed her life. Seven years have now passed. Char, who joined the Navy, is a bored press officer serving on a remote island base. She hears rumors that a Special Operations sniper nicknamed the Amish Assassin is coming there to hide from his pursuers. Could this be Uri? Char’s career has stalled, she is having an affair, and her life seems to have reached a dead end. So, who better to keep company with than another lost soul? Forced to face her regrets and disappointments, Char wonders if life ever offers second chances, even to a misfit like her. Surprises await...
American Mass Murderers collects nearly 700 pages of information about the most notorious killers in America, as well as some of the lesser-known murderers.
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