Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey
During World War II, famed literary scholar and “mere Christian” C.S. Lewis delivered a lecture to a pacifist society entitled, “Why I am Not a Pacifist”. From a writer whose pen could never be dull, this piece was Lewis’ authorial nadir. It is akin to Bertrand...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey
More Church History: The Atonement and Western Penal Law (10) One more historical note needs to be added: how the Constantinian shift in Christian spirituality, from an initial profound disavowal of state-sanctioned scapegoating violence, to an embrace of the very...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey
NOTE: Much of this material first appeared in “The Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice,” by Pierre Allard and Wayne Northey in “Christianity: The Rediscovery of Restorative Justice” (Michael Hadley, editor. New York: SUNY Press, 2001) Introduction An exchange in a...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
The Fall of the Prison: Biblical Perspectives on Prison Abolition, Lee Griffith, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1993. 258pp. by Wayne Northey “The gospel is profoundly scandalous, and until we hear at least a whisper of its scandal, we risk not hearing any...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
The Expanding Prison: The Crisis in Crime and Punishment and the Search for Alternatives by David Cayley (Anansi Press, 1998). The author writes of expanding prison growth: “I believe that this continuing increase presents a real threat to the decency and...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and...
