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Unnatural Lawyering: John Finnis’s brief against traditional Catholic teaching on capital punishment

January 4, 2019 Dr. Edward Feser 58

John Finnis is a prominent Catholic law professor and chief apostle of the “new natural law theory” (NNLT) invented by the late Germain Grisez in the 1960s. At Public Discourse, Finnis and I have been […]

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Hot Air vs. Capital Punishment: A Reply to Paul Griffiths and David Bentley Hart

November 28, 2017 Dr. Edward Feser 27

Griffiths’ review in First Things of By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed is rich in condescension, high in dudgeon, and largely devoid of substantive […]

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Yes, traditional Church teaching on capital punishment is definitive

November 21, 2017 Dr. Edward Feser 33

given the “hermeneutic of continuity” emphasized by Pope Benedict XVI – and given especially the teaching of the First Vatican Council that popes have no […]

Analysis

On capital punishment, even the pope’s defenders are confused

October 21, 2017 Dr. Edward Feser 59

There simply is no way to make an absolute condemnation of capital punishment consistent with past scriptural and papal teaching. The only way out of […]

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