Background
Brugger, Eugene Christian was born on June 29, 1964 in Manhatten, New York, United States. Son of Eugene Christian Brugger and Adaline Sherwood Kearns.
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What is the Catholic Church's position on the death penalty? How and why has it changed through the ages? Tracing the history of this thorny moral issue, Brugger offers a detailed exegesis of the Church's account of its morality as formulated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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Why is the Catholic Church against the death penalty? This second edition of Brugger’s classic work Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition traces the doctrinal path the Church has taken over the centuries to its present position as the world’s largest and most outspoken opponent of capital punishment. The pontificate of John Paul II marked a watershed in Catholic thinking. The pope taught that the death penalty is and can only be rightly assessed as a form of self-defense. But what does this mean? What are its implications for the Church’s traditional retribution-based model of lethal punishment? How does it square with what the Church has historically taught? Brugger argues that the implications of this historic turn have yet to be fully understood. In his new preface, Brugger examines the contribution of the great Polish pope’s closest collaborator and successor in the Chair of Peter, Pope Benedict XVI, to Catholic thinking on the death penalty. He argues that Pope Benedict maintained the doctrinal status quo of his predecessor’s teaching on capital punishment as self-defense, with detectable points of reluctance to draw attention to nontraditional implications of that teaching.
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Brugger, Eugene Christian was born on June 29, 1964 in Manhatten, New York, United States. Son of Eugene Christian Brugger and Adaline Sherwood Kearns.
Bachelor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1997. Master of Arts, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, 1994. Master of Theology, Harvard Division School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Oxford, England, 2000.
Assistant professor ethics Loyola University, New Orleans, 2000—2004. Associate professor theology Institute Psychological Science, Arlington, Virginia, 2004—2008, St. John Vianney Theological Seminary, Denver, since 2008. Senior fellow Westchester Institute Ethics & Human Persons, New York, since 2003.
Senior fellow ethics Culture Life Foundation, Washington, since 2007.
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Board member Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, since 2007. Member of American Academy Religion.
Married Melissa Marie Duggan, July 16, 1994. Children: Rose Laetare, Christian Augustine, Mary Christine, Sophia Grace, Edmund Peter, Thomas Athanasius.