For For readers who want both sides of the Christian argument about the death penalty set side by side; not a history of the practice.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
3 of 5worth your time
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
Two Christian views of the death penalty, for and against, with Yoder taking the case against.
How it proceeds
Philosophic3 of 5
Scriptural4 of 5
Experiential0 of 5
Sociological3 of 5
Historical2 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A debate book on capital punishment published in 1991, in which H. Wayne House argues for the death penalty and John Howard Yoder against it, each also responding to the other. Yoder had first written on the subject in The Christian and Capital Punishment (1961); his writings on it were collected in The End of Sacrifice (2011).
