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What is the real meaning of 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth'? Where did the idea for the 'Jubilee 2000' and 'Drop the Debt' campaigns come from? Here, Burnside looks at aspects of law and legality in the Bible, from the patriarchal narratives in the Hebrew Bible through to the trials of Jesus in the New Testament.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
An incisive look at how evangelical Christians shaped—and were shaped by—the American criminal justice system. America incarcerates on a massive scale. Despite recent reforms, the United States locks up large numbers of people—disproportionately poor and nonwhite—for long periods and offers little opportunity for restoration. Aaron Griffith reveals a key component in the origins of American mass incarceration: evangelical Christianity. Evangelicals in the postwar era made crime concern a major religious issue and found new platforms for shaping public life through punitive politics. Religious leaders like Billy Graham and David Wilkerson mobilized fears of lawbreaking and concern for offenders to sharpen appeals for Christian conversion, setting the stage for evangelicals who began advocating tough-on-crime politics in the 1960s. Building on religious campaigns for public safety earlier in the twentieth century, some preachers and politicians pushed for “law and order,” urging support for harsh sentences and expanded policing. Other evangelicals saw crime as a missionary opportunity, launching innovative ministries that reshaped the practice of religion in prisons. From the 1980s on, evangelicals were instrumental in popularizing criminal justice reform, making it a central cause in the compassionate conservative movement. At every stage in their work, evangelicals framed their efforts as colorblind, which only masked racial inequality in incarceration and delayed real change. Today evangelicals play an ambiguous role in reform, pressing for reduced imprisonment while backing law-and-order politicians. God’s Law and Order shows that we cannot understand the criminal justice system without accounting for evangelicalism’s impact on its historical development.
A study of Paul's theology in the Bible, focusing on his view of the old covenant God made with Israel and the new covenant Jesus announced at the Last Supper.
This book examines the competing regimes of law and religion an offers a multidisciplinary approach to demonstrate the global scope of their influence. It argues that the tension between these two institutions results from their disagreements about the kinds of rule that should govern human life and society, and from where they should be derived.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... VII. THE LAW OF SOCIAL PURITY. Thou shalt not commit adultery.--Exod. xx. 14. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covitousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, tride, foolishness: all these come from within, and defile the man.--St. Mark vii. 21-23. fTHHE commandment of the Lord is pure to J. the pure. It becomes the minister of Christ to speak His truth without fear of men; and I could do no worse offence against not only the Word of God, but the purity of all who hear me, if I should suppose by my silence that you have no interest in duties the most sacred to the human heart, or in evils among the gravest that eat into the social health. In that conviction I approach this subject; and I beg each Christian mind to listen, as in His presence, "who knew no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth." I shall speak of the ground of this divine com mand in the conscience of mankind, as the cornerstone of social order Not one among all natural laws can claim to be so widely received; and even the barbarian who kills and steals at his pleasure, has guarded the purity of the family. Our Maker has written here his witness of the essential difference between man and beast. Although I by no means accept those ideal pictures of savage life drawn by our romancers, yet the effort of some late writers to prove our primitive state one of brutish instincts, from the habits of a few degraded tribes, is far more false to history. Indeed, it is the sad truth, as we well know in the decay of our Indian races, that civilized vice has beyond all else depraved the morals of the savage. As we look, indeed, at the early history of the past, it may seem that the...