Download or read book Jesus v Abortion written by Charles K. Bellinger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Soren Kierkegaard, Eric Voegelin, Julien Benda, Simone Weil, Kenneth Burke, Richard Weaver, Rene Girard, Philip Rieff, Giorgio Agamben, Chantal Delsol, Paul Kahn, and David Bentley Hart.
Download or read book Jesus v Abortion written by Charles K. Bellinger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Soren Kierkegaard, Eric Voegelin, Julien Benda, Simone Weil, Kenneth Burke, Richard Weaver, Rene Girard, Philip Rieff, Giorgio Agamben, Chantal Delsol, Paul Kahn, and David Bentley Hart.
Download or read book Abortion and the Christian Tradition written by Margaret D. Kamitsuka and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abortion remains the most contested political issue in American life. Poll results have remained surprisingly constant over the years, with roughly equal numbers supporting and opposing it. A common perception is that abortion is contrary to Christian teaching and values. While some have challenged that perception, few have attempted a comprehensive critique and constructive counterargument on Christian ethical and theological grounds.Margaret Kamitsuka begins with a careful examination of the churchs biblical and historical record, refuting the assumption that Christianity has always condemned abortion or that it considered personhood as beginning at the moment of conception. She then offers carefully crafted ethical arguments about the pregnant womans authority to make reproductive decisions and builds a theological rationale for seeing abortion as something other than a sin.
Download or read book The Anvil of Guilt and Shame written by G. Spencer Schirs and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History will show that one of the greatest lies ever told was that a baby is simply a choice! The second greatest lie ever told is that abortion is exclusively a woman's health issue. Lies are where Satan lives. Every abortion, is a victory for Satan. Every time a man is removed from the decision or refused the opportunity to create a family, it is a victory for Satan, and it brings darkness to the world. The abortion of my child was the worst choice of my life; the guilt and shame of that "choice" has negatively affected every aspect of my life. The weight of that abortion has hung over me like an anvil, crushing my spirit. Just as Satan fears the light of Christ and the truth in Jesus, the "prochoice crowd" fear men of God. Why? Because once a man surrenders to God's will, Satan has no power over them, and those men will lead their families as God intended. If I were wrong, then why is there so much effort to devalue the contributions of men and remove them from the discussion? Men need to realize that they have a voice in the abortion debate and need to be the men God has always intended them to be.
Download or read book Abortion my Choice God s Grace written by Anne Marie Eggebroten and published by Hope Publishing House. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian women tell their story.
Download or read book Jesus Was Also Pro Choice written by Janus Rasmus and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus is portrayed in the Gospels not only as a defender of life but also as one not opposed to limited abortion in the sense that when we are given a choice of selecting only between two evils we must choose the lesser evil. There is evidence in both the Old Testament and the New Testament to provide justification for this view. Often we tend to take the following position of "either . . . or" attributed to Jesus by Matthew: " "He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters" (12:30). On the contrary, the Jesus of the Gospels is rather inclusive, according to Luke and Mark: "He who is not against you is for you" (Luke 9:50; Mark 9:40). That is, the basic pro-choice position is not diametrically opposed to the moderate pro-life position. Therefore, we can claim justifiably to be both pro life and pro choice, which phrases are not necessarily contradictory phrases but only contrary ones. In the words of the eminent scientist Neils Bohr, "Contraries are complementaries" ("Contraria sunt complementaria").
Download or read book Roe V Wade Unraveling the Fabric of America written by Philip A. Rafferty and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't need religion to kill Roe v Wade constitutionally, although some pro-Roe politicians use religion (in reverse) to shield Roe from being killed so. Side A argues that supporting abortion-access contradicts Jesus Christ, the giver of "abundant life". Side B argues that the fetus unquestionably qualifies as a 5th (14th) Amendment person. The two arguments are laid side by side so people will quit confusing them. Since Roe, more than fifty million human fetuses (or for all any person knows really: human beings in their fetal stages) have been launched into eternity by pointy medical instruments. Roe and its progeny say that all of this killing is constitutionally permissible because, in keeping with the English common law, the human fetus or "child unborn" does not qualify as a 5th (14th) Amendment due process clause person. What if the Roe justices got this wrong—for lack of a "working knowledge" of the status of the human fetus (or unborn child) and abortion at the English common law? Philip Rafferty, through a working knowledge of abortion prosecution at the English common law, demonstrates that the Roe justices certainly got this wrong. So forget everything you think you know about the abortion controversy. It's time to know What's Really Going On.
Download or read book Abortion and the Christian written by John Jefferson Davis and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Philosophy written by Andrew Wommack and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone views life through a filter. The Bible calls that your philosophy. It's the way you think and it controls the outcome of your life.Ask yourself, do you believe the bible is the infallible and inspired word of God? Do you believe there is only one way to God? Is God good or judgmental? Does He control your destiny or is that up to...
Download or read book Biblical Strategies to Abolish Abortion written by Rusty Thomas and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rusty’s book is a must-read for anyone wanting a clear concrete road map to abolish legalized abortion! It is not just abstract theory but rather a phenomenal practical comprehensive applied handbook and reference guide for the battle to end abortion. Rusty gives an incredibly detailed history and present backdrop of abortion, clear direct vision, and detailed short- and long-term strategy going forward on how to explicitly, biblically, effectively, abolish abortion and why we should do so from God’s perspective and not men. This book bleeds from a very faithful man of God of great depth of wisdom and character, distilled from many years of deep trials, tribulations, tears, heartbreak, experience, study, and deep personal sacrifice in the battle to abolish abortion. He addresses how God sees the situation, what He expects of us, the church, and how to engage. He details out the surprising enemies of abolition. He addresses questions, objections, in almost every conceivable way and in relation to all arenas. Rusty does a masterful job of weaving the tapestry, and I know of absolutely no one more qualified to speak on the subject! John Jacob Indiana State Representative
Download or read book What s Really Going on with Pro Roe V Wade Catholic Politicians written by Philip A. Rafferty and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No committed Christian would support the proposition that a human being may be killed because he has yet to receive his future state of being (eternal life). Yet, the pro-Roe, Catholic politician supports the position that a human fetus may be killed because it cannot be certainly demonstrated that this fetus has received that state of being which makes him a human being. Suppose the fetus is not yet a human being, and is aborted. Is the pro-Roe, Catholic politician prepared to demonstrate that this fetus does not, hereby, lose his opportunity to receive eternal life? Is not this politician supporting the denial to another what he would not think of denying to himself: eternal life in Jesus Christ? Since Roe, fifty million human fetuses have been launched into eternity by pointy medical instruments. Roe and its progeny say that all of this killing is constitutionally permissible because, in keeping with the English common law, the human fetus does not qualify as a due process clause person. What if the Roe justices got this wrong—for lack of a 'working knowledge' of the status of the human fetus and abortion at the English common law? Philip Rafferty, through a working knowledge of abortion prosecution at the English common law, demonstrates that the Roe justices certainly got this wrong. So forget everything you think you know about the abortion controversy. It's time to knowWhat's Really Going On.The overruling of Roe v Wade is considered a dead issue. Rafferty has risen up this dead issue on Roe's own burial grounds. And he has done so with unparalleled, pointed legal scholarship. Ken R. Hughey American fighter pilot and Hanoi-Hilton Prisoner of War
Download or read book Catechism of the Catholic Church written by U.S. Catholic Church and published by Image. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3 million copies sold! Essential reading for Catholics of all walks of life. Here it is - the first new Catechism of the Catholic Church in more than 400 years, a complete summary of what Catholics around the world commonly believe. The Catechism draws on the Bible, the Mass, the Sacraments, Church tradition and teaching, and the lives of saints. It comes with a complete index, footnotes and cross-references for a fuller understanding of every subject. The word catechism means "instruction" - this book will serve as the standard for all future catechisms. Using the tradition of explaining what the Church believes (the Creed), what she celebrates (the Sacraments), what she lives (the Commandments), and what she prays (the Lord's Prayer), the Catechism of the Catholic Church offers challenges for believers and answers for all those interested in learning about the mystery of the Catholic faith. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is a positive, coherent and contemporary map for our spiritual journey toward transformation.
Download or read book Pro Choice and Christian written by Kira Schlesinger and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the claim by many Christian leaders that the pro-life/antiabortion position is the only faithful response to the debate about reproductive rights, many people of faith find themselves in a murky middle of this supposedly black-and-white issue. Christians who are pro-abortion rights are rarely pro-abortion. However, they view the decision to carry a pregnancy to term as one to be made by the woman, her medical team, her family, or personal counsel rather than by politicians. Pro-Choice and Christian explores the biblical, theological, political, and medical aspects of the debate in order to provide a thoughtful Christian argument for a pro-choice position with regard to abortion issues. Kira Schlesinger considers relevant Scriptures, the politics of abortion in the United States, and the human realities making abortion a vital issue of justice and compassion. By examining choice from a Christian perspective, Schlesinger provides a common vocabulary for discussing faith and reproductive rights.
Download or read book Was Jesus Also Pro Choice written by Zacharias P. Thundy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gospels portray Jesus not only as a champion of non-violence but also as one not violently and unequivocally opposed to limited abortion in the sense that, when our choice is only between two evils, we must choose the lesser evil. Evidence from the Hebrew scriptures subscribed to Jesus and his contemporaries as well as evidence from the Gospels provides justification for this claim. In other words, there is no evidence in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures to claim that every abortion, which naturally is in itself an intrinsically evil or immoral action, is by itself a mortal sin deserving of capital punishment and eternal damnation. Therefore, the opposition between the generally understood pro-life stance, which purportedly claims that the fetus from the moment of conception is endowed with a human soul and thus a fully fledged human person, and the moderate pro-choice position, which tolerates limited abortion, say, during the first trimester of pregnancy. The first part of this short study will explain Jesus' or the Gospels' rather tolerant or not openly condemnatory view of the basic pro-choice position that not all abortions are necessarily homicide. The second part will show that the basic pro-life position--human life is sacred at all its stages--and the basic pro-choice position are rather complementary. Therefore, we can justifiably be both pro-life and pro-choice, which positions are not at all contradictory but only contrary, as in the motto of the eminent scientist Neils Bohr, "Contraries are complementary" ("Contraria sunt complementaria").
Download or read book Answering the Call written by John M. Ensor and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973 the Supreme Court decision in the landmark Roe v. Wade case overturned laws prohibiting abortion in America. Forty years later, the struggle to protect the sanctity of human life continues. Today a new generation of Christian leaders in America is rising to the occasion and gathering strength. Young pastors speaking with moral clarity and grace, student leaders on campuses, bloggers, investigative reporters, researchers, and activists are assuming leadership roles and urging a new generation of Christians to answer the call to cherish and defend innocent human life. In this newly revised and updated edition of Answering the Call, John Ensor provides an invaluable resource that clearly lays out a blueprint for the life-affirming Christian response to the abortion issue that is as urgently needed as ever. John Ensor is the President of PassionLife Ministries, a global-missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement in countries suffering the highest abortion rates in the world. An Evangelical pastor, John has served the pregnancy help movement in the US for over twenty years as a leader, speaker, writer, trainer, and co-laborer. To learn more visit: www.passionlife.org Book jacket.
Download or read book A Brief Liberal Catholic Defense of Abortion written by Daniel A. Dombrowski and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catholic church has always opposed abortion, but -- contrary to popular belief -- not always for the same reasons. This tightly argued, historically grounded study sets out to demonstrate that a "pro-choice" stance, now held by a significant minority of Catholics, is as fully justified by Catholic thought as an anti-abortion view, and may even be more compatible with Catholic tradition than the current opposition to abortion espoused by many Catholics and most Catholic leaders. A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion argues that the current Catholic anti-abortion stance is justified neither by modern embryology nor by ancient church teachings. Combining up-to-date information on fetal development with a thorough grasp of the works of the church's early thinkers, Daniel A. Dombrowski and Robert Deltete expose crucial contradictions between the early and the modern church's views of abortion. Returning to the writings of two pillars of early Christian thought, Sts. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, the authors show that abortion was originally condemned by the church on the grounds of perversity, since it nullified the only permissible reason for sexual relations: procreation. Only in more recent times has the view arisen of abortion as indefensible on the ontological grounds that human personhood begins at the moment of conception. The authors demonstrate that the early church's view of fetal development -- delayed hominization, in which the fetus is endowed with a human soul only when it achieves a physical human body -- is diametrically opposed to the current anti-abortion stance. In fact, the authors show, the insistence on immediate hominization that provides thefoundation for the current "pro-life" view stems from two seventeenth-century scientific misconceptions -- preformationism and the homunculus -- that have since been thoroughly discredited. By considering the history of Catholic thought in its relation to the history of science, Dombrowski and Deltete bring a new level of detail and focus to the abortion debate. Their thoughtful, measured argument provides a fresh perspective that will benefit participants on all sides of the controversy.
Download or read book Abortion written by Robert Charles Sproul and published by NavPress Publishing Group. This book was released on 1990 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
