Sunday, January 4, 2015

Torture Master-Post

Last month, my colleagues at All Faithful Can allowed me to write a four-part series on the U.S. Senate's report on the CIA's use of torture that was  released on December 9th.  Instead of cross posting the same material to this blog, the links below will take you to the particular posts.

  • Part One:  Why do Americans—and in particular Christians—support torture?  And why do Christians do so at higher rates than non-Christians?
  • Part Two:  How do you define torture?  How have we defined torture? What does torture “do”?
  • Part ThreeWhat do torture and sexual assault have in common?  
  • Part Four:  What are the theological resources that have shaped Christianity’s moral prohibition on the use of torture (even if they have not always worked in practice)? 
Along the way, I pulled from some of my graduate research I did in 2009-2010 and in 2012.  I have a few more posts in mind that will be a few months in the making.