Killing and Christian Ethics

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Christopher O. Tollefsen (University of South Carolina)

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Cambridge University Press
14 May 2026

Ethics & moral philosophy; Religious ethics; Christianity

Series: New Studies in Christian Ethics

Everyone recognizes that it is, in general, wrong to intentionally kill a human being. But are there exceptions to that rule? In Killing and Christian Ethics, Christopher Tollefsen argues that there are no exceptions: the rule is absolute. The absolute view on killing that he defends has important implications for bioethical issues at the beginning and end of life, such as abortion and euthanasia. It has equally important implications for the morality of capital punishment and the morality of killing in war. Tollefsen argues that a lethal act is morally permissible only when it is an unintended side effect of one's action. In this way, some lethal acts of force, such as personal self-defense, or defense of a polity in a defensive war, may be justified -- but only if they involve no intension of causing death. Even God, Tollefsen argues, neither intends death, nor commands the intentional taking of life.

By: Christopher O. Tollefsen (University of South Carolina)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 468g
ISBN: 9781009714341
ISBN 10: 1009714341
Series: New Studies in Christian Ethics
Pages: 243
Publication Date: 14 May 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher O. Tollefsen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Lying and Christian Ethics (CUP, 2014), and co-author, with the physician Farr Curlin, of The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession (Notre Dame University Press, 2021).