Death Penalty and Discipleship - McCarthy, David Matzko
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David Matzko McCarthy s "Death Penalty and Discipleship" is a faith formation resource to help communities and individuals reflect more deeply on capital punishment. It incorporates Scripture, Catholic social teaching, and contemporary issues that focus on the meaning of God s self-giving in Jesus Christ and the implications of God s redemptive work in our lives. McCarthy shows how the church s stance against the death penalty fits with Scripture, even passages such as an eye for an eye... (Lev 24:19-20); he attends to the teachings of Jesus and draws out themes of restorative justice; and he…mehr

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David Matzko McCarthy s "Death Penalty and Discipleship" is a faith formation resource to help communities and individuals reflect more deeply on capital punishment. It incorporates Scripture, Catholic social teaching, and contemporary issues that focus on the meaning of God s self-giving in Jesus Christ and the implications of God s redemptive work in our lives. McCarthy shows how the church s stance against the death penalty fits with Scripture, even passages such as an eye for an eye... (Lev 24:19-20); he attends to the teachings of Jesus and draws out themes of restorative justice; and he concludes by locating work to end the death penalty within St. John Paul II s call for a new evangelization.
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David Matzko McCarthy is the Father Forker Professor of Catholic Social Teaching in the theology department at Mount St. Mary's University. His five books and numerous articles and presentations are in the areas of moral theology and Catholic social teaching. He is also the founding editor of the Journal of Moral Theology. His most recent book is Sharing God's Good Company: A Theology of the Communion of Saints (Eerdmans, 2012).