Consistently pro-life
Subtitle: the ethics of bloodshed in ancient Christianity
By: Rob Arner ; with a foreword by J. Jayakiran Sebastian
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781606086124
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-136) and index.
Table of contents: title: Tragedy at Pentecost; title: Justifications for the violence of abortion; title: Justifications for state-sanctioned violence; title: The need for consistency; title: Recovering an ancient church teaching; title: Killing our children: abortion and infanticide; title: Killing for fun: Roman bloodsport and the spectacles; title: Killing ourselves: suicide; title: Killing our enemies: war and military service; title: Faithful Christians do not kill: categorical statements on the immorality of taking human life and the avoidance of blood; title: The virtue of patience: the positive Christian ethic; title: Realized eschatology: the early church as the fullment of Isaiah 2:1-5; title: Martyrdom and the way of the cross.