William J. Webb defuses misguided readings of biblical passages that call for the corporal punishment of children, slaves and wrongdoers. Setting these passages in their ancient cultural context, Webb reaffirms the importance of reading Scripture with Gods redemptive movement in mind.William J....
1.punishment or penalty applied at the discretion of a court or other authority, as contrasted with a penalty predetermined by statute. 2.the imposing of such a penalty. —amercer,n. caneology Humorous.advocacy of the use of a cane in corporal punishment. ...
In ancient Rome, for example, a person who murdered a close relative was enclosed in a sack with a cock, a viper, a dog, and a monkey, and then cast into the sea.The ancient punishments were brought to England. Until the nineteenth century, the death penalty, or Capital Punishment, ...
(2006). Attitudes predict the use of physical punishment: A prospective study of the emergence of disciplinary practices. Pediatrics, 117(6), 2055–2064. Article Google Scholar Webb, W. J. (2011). Corporal punishment in the Bible: A redemptive movement-hermeneutic for troubling texts. Inter...
Punishment in the Eyes of the Puritans During the time of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the puritans, just about everything labeled as a crime in the Bible was punished. Many of these sins are in The Scarlet Letter, although not all of them are punished. In fact, Hester Prynne’s sin is the...
Punishments authorized in modern U.S. law include community service, monetary fines,Forfeitureof property, restitution to victims, confinement in jail or prison, and death. Some civil sanctions are punitive in nature. The primary aim, though, in most civil cases is to compensate the victim. Howe...
class="MsoNormalIn Corporal punishment harms, no good in it (DN, June 19), Frank Peters cites the Bible to support his position that corporal punishment is harmful to a child and incorrectly implies that the rod and staff are the same thing. It is alright, godly to discipline a child, ...
1. God's punishments for sin often appear even in the body of man.(1) Because sin is committed in the body.(2) The body being the more sensitive part, it may affect us the more when we feel God's punishments in it.(3) That others may have the more clear example in beholding ...
This is not the case. “Generally, newborns sleep about 8 to 9 hours in the daytime and about 8 hours at night. But they may not sleep more than 1 to 2 hours at a time. Most babies don’t start sleeping through the night (6 to 8 hours) without waking until they are about 3 mo...
In particular, The Wife of Bath challenges the stereotypes of what may appear to be “normal” treatment of women during this time period (TheBestNotes.com). She identifies the distinctions between “traditional” gender roles and relates them to passages from the bible, which are then taken ...