The survey examines writings in three areas: (1) the causes and cures of the rise of religious violence and terrorism, with particular attention to how Christian theology and the Bible contribute to or challenge this violence; (2) the ethical challenges of terrorism and the need to find a moral response to this threat; and (3) the strengths and limits of just war thinking in responding to contemporary forms of violence.
Many oppose the mandatum as a threat to the academic freedom of Catholic scholars and the autonomy and credibility of Catholic universities. But the imposition of this juridical bond on working theologians is also in tension with Catholic Social Teaching on the rights and dignity of labor. Work is the labor necessary to earn our daily bread. But it is also the vocation by which we realize ourselves as persons and the profession through which we contribute to the common good. Thus, along with the right to a just wage and safe working conditions, Catholic Social Teaching defends workers' rights to a full partnership in the enterprise, and calls upon the church to be a model of participation and cooperation. The imposition of the mandatum fails to live up to this standard and threatens the jobs and vocations of theologians while undermining this profession's contribution to the church.
In less than three decades, wars on crime and drugs in the UnitedStates have resulted in a sixfold increase of the prison population and the construction of the world's largest prison system. As a way of evaluating the morality of this "prison experiment," the author applies several criteria from the just-war theory to the American government's prosecution of wars on crime and drugs that has led to the incarceration of two million people.] E LLIOTT CURRIE IN HIS STUDY Crime and Punishment in America has argued that since 1972 the United States has been engaged in an unprecedented, unparalleled, and largely unnoticed social experiment, "testing the degree to which a modern industrial society can maintain public order through the threat of punishment" or, more specifically, imprisonment. 1 Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project makes a similar point in Race to Incarcerate, noting that "during this period public policy in the U.S. has resulted in . . . a second wave of the great 'experiment' in the use of incarceration as a means of controlling crime." 2 As Mauer's quote implies and David Rothman convincingly established in The Discovery of the Asylum, America's fascination with penitentiaries and stiff sentences is not new but reaches back to the early days of the Republic. 3 Still, this most
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