| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 340 pages .) |
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Theopolitical visions ; 19 |
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Theopolitical visions ; 19.
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| Contents |
Part One. Understand violence (and human rights) -- 1. Why are human beings violent? Examining the question and some answers -- 2. "They hated me without a cause": Violence as resistance to growth in selfhood -- 3. "If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself": Violence as crowd phenomenon -- 4. "You shall love God. . . and your neighbor as yourself": Violence as a rejection of balanced consciousness -- Part Two. Arguments: superficial and deep -- 5. "Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor?": Jesus and the lawyers' question -- 6. "Those who want to save their life will lose it": Kierkegaard vs. individualism -- 7 . "Whoever welcomes one such child": maternity on leave -- "Will he find faith on the earth?": Eric Voegelin vs. Deicide and Homicide -- 9. "I desire mercy not sacrifice": René Girard on Contemporary scapegoats -- 10. "Why do you not notice the log in your own eye?": The deepest irony of nominalism -- Part Three. Historical reenactments -- 11. "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them": Everyone struggles against tyranny -- that's our problem -- 12. "I have the power to crucify you": Justice Blackmun = Pontius Pilate -- 13. "Many gave false testimony": Pro-Choice historical revisionism -- 14. "All who do evil hate the light": The Grand Inquisitor of Philadelphia -- 15. "You are descendants of those who murdered the prophets": The slavery/Shoa analogy -- 16. "We would not have taken part with them": Attempted refutations of the analogy -- 17. "The blood of all the prophets will be charged against this generation": Analogies and reenactments -- 18. "Whoever is not against us is for us": Beverly Mitchell, Paul Kahn, Simone Weil, Philip Rieff, Chantal Delsol, Giorgio Agamben, Julien Benda -- Part Four. The way forward -- 19. "There was a man who had two sons": Pro-life conversion stories -- 20. "You must be born again": Saula of Tarsus -- 21. "Be wise as serpents, but gentle as doves": Win the person, not the argument |
| Summary |
There are three main positions that people adopt within the abortion debate: pro-life, muddled middle, and pro-choice. Jesus v. Abortion critiques the pro-choice and muddled middle positions, employing several unusual angles: (1) The question What would Jesus say about abortion if he were here today? is given very substantial treatment. (2) The abortion debate is usually conducted using moral and metaphysical arguments; this book adds in anthropological insights regarding the function of violence in human culture. (3) Rights language is employed by both sides of the debate, to opposite ends; this book leads the reader to ask deep questions about the concept of rights. (4) The use of historical analogies in the abortion debate goes both directions, in the sense that both sides accuse the other of being similar to the defenders of slavery; this book contains what is probably the most sophisticated and sustained analysis of the meaning and legitimacy of such analogies. (5) Many important thinkers are brought into this conversation, such as Søren Kierkegaard, Eric Voegelin, Julien Benda, Simone Weil, Kenneth Burke, Richard Weaver, René Girard, Philip Rieff, Giorgio Agamben, Chantal Delsol, Paul Kahn, and David Bentley Hart |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-336) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jesus Christ -- Teachings
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| SUBJECT |
Jesus Christ fast |
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Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Theological anthropology -- Christianity.
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Theological anthropology -- Christianity
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Teachings
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Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781498235068 |
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1498235069 |
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