Noam Zion

The Sacredness of Human Life

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This book's subtitle perfectly conveys the way scholarship of classical texts can speak to contemporary culture wars. David Gushee has identified a crucial debate over the relationship between the modern Western value of human dignity and classical Christianity that seems to be driving an ill-considered polemical political wedge between 'liberals' and 'conservatives.'. . . May Gushee's sophisticated contribution enhance the religious axiom of the sacredness of human life.”