Sheathing the Sword: Augustine and the Good Judge
In this article, I offer a reading of City of God 19.6 that is consonant with Augustine's message to real judges. Often read as a suggestion that torture and execution are judicially necessary, I argue that 19.6 actually calls such necessities into question, though this is not its primary purpo...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2018]
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2018, Volume: 46, Issue: 4, Pages: 718-747 |
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Augustine
B Capital Punishment B Justice B Apatheia B judicial ethics B Rehabilitation B Stoicism B Humanitas |
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