Books written by Lloyd H. Steffen

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  Life/choice: The Theory of Just Abortion

  "Into the poisonous public debate on abortion comes Life/Choice, a book whose eminent good sense is the perfect antidote to the venom spewed by absolutists on both sides of the...

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  Holy War, Just War: Exploring the Moral Meaning of Religious Violence

  The book states that religion has within its own conceptual tools the resources to understand its own dark side and that religious people must subject their religion to a moral vision of goodness and constrain those parts that make for ...

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  Executing Justice: The Moral Meaning of the Death Penalty

  aspect of God's justice—renders the absolute action undertaken in execution a direct expression of the divine. There is, I admit, a deep consistency in this view. Although I will not explore further the general question of the religious ...

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  Executing Justice: The Moral Meaning of the Death Penalty

  This compelling book incisively analyzes every philosophical and humanitarian argument about the death penalty.

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  The Ethics of Death

  In The Ethics of Death, the authors, one a philosopher and one a religious studies scholar, undertake an examination of the deaths that we experience as members of a larger moral community.