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Consistently pro-life : the ethics of bloodshed in ancient Christianity / Rob Arner ; with a foreword by J. Jayakiran Sebastian.

Arner, Robert.
2010
BR195.A26 A76 2010
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Title
Consistently pro-life : the ethics of bloodshed in ancient Christianity / Rob Arner ; with a foreword by J. Jayakiran Sebastian.
Author
Arner, Robert.
ISBN
160608612X
9781606086124
Imprint
Eugene, Or. : Pickwick Publications, c2010.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 136 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
BR195.A26 A76 2010
System Control No.
(OCoLC)649322600
(OCoLC)649322600
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-136) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Tragedy at Pentecost
Justifications for the violence of abortion
Justifications for anti-abortion violence
Justifications for state-sanctioned violence
The need for consistency
Recovering an ancient church teaching
Killing our children : abortion and infanticide
Killing for fun : Roman bloodsport and the "spectacles"
Killing ourselves : suicide
Killing our enemies : war and military service
Faithful Christians do not kill : categorical statements on the immorality of taking human life and the avoidance of blood
The virtue of patience : the positive Christian ethic
Realized eschatology : the early church as the fullment of Isaiah 2:1-5
Martyrdom and the way of the cross.
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