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All Blog Posts With Tag: Capital Punishment

How may any Christian support capital punishment, with the knowledge that Jesus Christ had died for their sins? (1 Corinthians 15:3) Karl Barth argues that it is an astonishing fact that the Church has not unilaterally opposed the death penalty worldwide, and that after two millennia of Church history and […]
 
Jean-Léon Gérôme - The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer In Karl Barth's criticism of Capital Punishment, he provides a very good summary of the three best arguments for Capital Punishment, because he continues on to criticize and deconstruct each of them.  1) According to the first theory, which is not only the oldest and […]