Faith, Scripture and the Death Penalty: A Jewish and Christian Dialogue
Tuesday, March 1, 2005 at 6:30 p.m., Higgins Hall Room 300, Boston College (directions)
| In debates concerning the death penalty, people are often influenced by and draw upon religious and scriptural perspectives to justify their positions, both pro-death penalty and anti-death penalty. This panel will provide an opportunity to explore these issues in order to better understand the contemporary debate. In particular, the panel will focus on scriptural interpretation regarding the death penalty and the development of moral teaching concerning this issue. | ||
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Ruth Langer is associate director of the Center for Christian - Jewish Learning and associate professor of Jewish Studies at Boston College. Interested in Christian-Jewish relations and Jewish liturgy, she is the author of To Worship God Properly: Tensions between Liturgical Custom and Halakhah in Judaism (Hebrew Union College Press, 1998) and is currently researching the history of the birkhat haminim, the "blessing against the heretics." | |
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Stephen J. Pope is associate professor of ethics at Boston College and past chair of the theology department. His research interests include Christian ethics and evolutionary theory; love and justice in contemporary Christian ethics; charity and natural law in Thomas Aquinas; and Roman Catholic social teachings. He is the editor of the recently published, Common Calling: The Laity and The Governance of the Church (Georgetown University Press, 2004). | |