Publication Date
5-2012
Document Type
Article
Abstract
I am grateful to the Mercer Law Review for including a Christian ethics professor in this colloquy and, wearing my other hat as a cosponsor of this symposium, grateful to our distinguished guests for being here! I am also grateful to my friend Jeremy Waldron for his very kind words about me and about our Evangelical Declaration Against Torture,' and for his excellent paper presented at this symposium, to which it is my honor to offer a brief response.
It seems to me that a paper focusing as it does on my own work on the Evangelical Declaration rightly evokes a somewhat autobiographical response. I want to deal with the important theoretical issues raised by Professor Waldron in light of my own involvement in the torture debate from 2005 until today. This will take you behind the scenes to some extent and, I hope, will reveal the cogency of Dr. Waldron's claims about the constructive value of religious contributions to public deliberation.
Recommended Citation
Gushee, David P.
(2012)
"Religious Reason-Giving in the Torture Debate: A Response to Jeremy Waldron,"
Mercer Law Review: Vol. 63:
No.
3, Article 6.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.mercer.edu/jour_mlr/vol63/iss3/6