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Christian Witness, Moral Anthropology, And The Death Penalty, Richard W. Garnett
Christian Witness, Moral Anthropology, And The Death Penalty, Richard W. Garnett
Richard W Garnett
In this essay, I consider - in the context of our ongoing debates about capital punishment - the question, what role ought religious beliefs play in a pluralistic democratic society that often presumes strict boundaries between matters of private faith and political life? I suggest, first, that we should resist the imposition of such strict boundaries between matters of private faith and political life and, second, that in the context of our public arguments about the death penalty, engaged Christians should not merely to baptize the policy analyses and preferences of abolitionist or other interest groups, but should instead propose …