{"id":77478,"date":"2019-01-18T14:26:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T19:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77478"},"modified":"2019-01-18T17:29:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T22:29:22","slug":"ethika-politika-david-franks-on-the-pro-life-direction-of-providence-the-christian-withdrawal-from-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77478","title":{"rendered":"(Ethika Politika) David Franks&#8211;On the Pro-Life Direction of Providence: The Christian Withdrawal from Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students years ago heard me complain how imprecise it was to translate the Fifth Commandment as \u201cThou shalt not kill.\u201d As a moral theologian, I would note that \u201ckill\u201d is too generic, lacking specification by a moral object. It should be \u201cThou shalt not murder.\u201d And, technically, that is true.<\/p>\n<p>And yet. And yet. Human killing is something we should always be in the practice of withdrawing from\u2014in our minds, hearts, viscera, as well as in our social practice. That withdrawal belongs at the heart of the New Law of grace. Yes: grace does not destroy nature, but rather perfects it. Yes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ethikapolitika.org\/2019\/01\/17\/pro-life-direction-providence\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Human killing is something we should always be in the practice of withdrawing from&#8221;, even when it seems justified <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AAI2swO1KO\">https:\/\/t.co\/AAI2swO1KO<\/a> On <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ethikapolitika?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ethikapolitika<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/abortion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#abortion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wholelife?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#wholelife<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarchForLife2019?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarchForLife2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Mills (@DavidMillsWrtng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidMillsWrtng\/status\/1086329449480515586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students years ago heard me complain how imprecise it was to translate the Fifth Commandment as \u201cThou shalt not kill.\u201d As a moral theologian, I would note that \u201ckill\u201d is too generic, lacking specification by a moral object. It should<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77478\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,168,96,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-life-ethics","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77481,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77478\/revisions\/77481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}