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| Prelude | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why a Book about the Sacredness of Human Life? | |
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| How This Book Came to Be | |
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| Joining the Archaeologists | |
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| Plan of the Book | |
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| Notes about My Approach | |
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| Two Scenes from Europe | |
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| Sacredness as Moral Reality and Moral Task | |
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| What It Means to Say That Human Life Is Sacred | |
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| Definitions and Etymologies | |
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| A Sacredness Paradigm | |
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| Sacred Human Beings | |
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| Does Sacredness Require God? | |
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| Humanity as Sacred: Ancient Christian Doctrine or Recent Innovation? | |
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| Current Christian Definitions of the Sacredness of Life | |
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| My Christian Definition of Life's Sacredness - and Puzzles That Remain | |
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| The Old Testament and the Sacredness of Human Life | |
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| Creation, Humanity, and the Image of God | |
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| God's Compassionate Care and Liberating Deliverance | |
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| Biblical Law and Life's Sacredness | |
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| The Decalogue | |
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| The Prophetic Demand and Yearning for Shalom | |
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| Toward Jesus Christ | |
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| Jesus Christ, the New Testament, and the Sacredness of Human Life | |
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| The Ministry of Jesus Christ | |
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| The Incarnation of Jesus Christ | |
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| The Image of Jesus Christ | |
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| The Expansive Reach of the Body of Christ | |
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| The New Testament and the Sacredness of Life: A Dialogue with Richard Hays | |
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| The Sacredness of Life in Early Christianity | |
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| The Christendom Question | |
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| The Church against War | |
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| The Church against Abortion and Infanticide | |
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| The Church against Judicial Torment and Killing | |
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| The Church against the Mayhem of the Arenas | |
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| "Regard People as Truly Sacred" | |
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| An Army of Peace and Piety | |
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| Love without Partiality | |
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| Sojourners of Christ | |
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| Christians as the Romans Saw Them | |
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| How the Early Church Retained Its Moral Vision | |
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| The Fateful Transition to Christendom | |
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| The Constantinian Transition | |
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| Theodosius Mandates Orthodox Christianity | |
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| Moral Damage at the Foundations | |
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| Advances and Regressions for the Sacredness of Life | |
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| Christendom Divided against Itself: Three Case Studies | |
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| The Crusades, Francis, and the Sacred Lives of Enemies | |
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| Colonialism, Las Casas, and the Sacred Lives of Indians | |
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| Anti-Semitism, Overton, and the Sacred Lives of Jews | |
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| A Tragically Mixed Legacy | |
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| Enlightenment Transitions: Natural Rights, Rule of Law, and Human Dignity | |
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| Enlightenment Transitions and the Sacredness of Human Life | |
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| Natural Right/s: Bridge Concepts between the Medieval and Modern Worlds | |
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| John Locke: Equality, Rule of Law, and Resistance to Tyranny | |
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| Immanuel Kant: Dignity, Autonomy, and the Moral Law | |
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| Trial Balance: The Journey So Far | |
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| Nietzsche Rejects the Christian God and Christian Morality | |
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| New Challenges to Belief in the Sacredness of Human Life | |
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| Reading Nietzsche | |
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| Biographical Basics | |
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| Tragic Pessimism: The Birth of Tragedy (1872) | |
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| The Pathos and Delusion of the Great Quest for "Truth" (1872-1873) | |
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| Acknowledging That We Are Human, All Too Human (1878) | |
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| No Justice, No Rights, No Equality | |
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| No Pity | |
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| Cruelty Not Necessarily Evil | |
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| The Right and Dignity of Suicide | |
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| Social Contempt and Suppression of "Degenerating" Lives | |
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| The Benefits of War | |
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| Nietzsche and the Sacredness of Human Life | |
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| Desecrations: Twentieth-Century Nazi Assaults on Human Life | |
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| Hitler and His Crimes | |
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| How They Got There: The Nazi Party Platform of 1920 | |
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| Aggrieved Nationalism | |
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| Imperialism and Colonialism | |
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| Racism and Anti-Semitism | |
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| Disenfranchisement - Exclusion from Political Community | |
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| Expulsion and Statelessness | |
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| Statist, Racist, Homogeneous Communitarianism | |
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| Ruthless Avenging Violence | |
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| National Health and Racial Hygiene | |
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| Authoritarianism, Propaganda, and Suppression of Civil Liberties | |
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| The Religious Politics of National Salvation | |
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| "Contempt for the Sanctity of Human Life" | |
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| Honoring Human Life: Twenty-first-Century Challenges | |
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| Rebuilding the Moral Order after World War II | |
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| Abortion | |
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| Biotechnological Innovations | |
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| The Death Penalty | |
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| Human Rights | |
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| Nuclear Weapons | |
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| Women's Rights | |
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| Other Issues | |
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| The Sacredness of God's Creation | |
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| The Sacredness of Human Life and Ecological Degradation | |
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| Problems of a Sacredness-of-Human-Life Ethic for the Care of Creation | |
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| The Development of Alternative Theological Paradigms | |
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| Toward a Broadened Christian Sacredness-of-Life Ethic | |
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| Rediscovering Scripture | |
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| Some Moral Implications | |
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| Embracing a Sacredness-of-Created-Life Ethic | |
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| Final Words: For the Church and Its Neighbors | |
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| Where We Started: What It Means to Say That Human Life Is Sacred | |
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| Summary of Major Discoveries | |
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| The Thirty-six Righteous | |
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| Honoring Life Together | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Subjects and Names | |
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| Index of Scripture References | |