Torture Is a Moral Issue: Christians, Jews, Muslims, and People of Conscience Speak Out

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George Hunsinger
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Sep 5, 2008 - Philosophy - 272 pages
In this hard-hitting volume two dozen scholars, activists, military officers, and religious leaders call for an immediate end to the practice of torture, paying particular attention to its use in the American war on terror.

Torture Is a Moral Issue begins with background material, including vivid firsthand accounts from a torture survivor and a former U.S. interrogator in Iraq. The heart of the book contains respectively Christian, Jewish, and Muslim arguments against torture, and the final part charts a way forward toward a solution, offering much principled yet practical advice. Included as an afterword is an interview with Darius Rejali, one of the world's foremost experts on torture and democracy.

Contributors:

Taha Jabir Alalwani
William T. Cavanaugh
John Conroy
Edward Feld
David P. Gushee
Yahya Hendi
Scott Horton
George Hunsinger
Adm. John Hutson
Tony Lagouranis
Ellen Lippman
Ingrid Mattson
Ann Elizabeth Mayer
Marilyn McEntyre
Gen. Richard M. O'Meara
Dianna Ortiz
Darius Rejali
Louise Richardson
Kenneth Roth
Fleming Rutledge
Melissa Weintraub
Carol Wickersham

 

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Contents

A Survivors View of Torture 22
22
Christians Speak
45
Six Reasons Why Torture Is Always Wrong
73
A Regretful Update
92
A Sermon
117
Defense of Dignity and Life in Jewish
127
Developing a Jewish Theology Regarding Torture
145
Muslims Speak
161
Of Torture and Abuse
174
A Sermon
181
Toward a Solution
203
Progenitor of
220
Speaking Truth to the Not So Powerful
241
Appendix
263
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About the author (2008)

George Hunsinger is McCord Professor of SystematicTheology at Princeton Theological Seminary and therecipient of the 2010 Karl Barth Prize from the Union ofEvangelical Churches in Germany.

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