Of course even Bultmann, to say nothing of Kierkegaard, wrote in the conviction that he knew more about Jesus than
the mere fact of his death.
Not exact matches
(c) Soteriological movement: God, who for Whitehead is the beginning
of each event (PR 244) and the original power
of novelty (PR 67), is also the release from the repetition
of the past, i.e., the repetition
of evil, guilt, and
death.33 On this basis, theology can follow its soteriological function; namely, «to show how the World is founded on something beyond
mere transient
fact, and how it issues into something beyond the perishing
of occasions» (AI 172).
A video
of his first confrontation with a crook gets posted on YouTube (it's hard to know what's more jaw - dropping: the
fact that the person he kills is a
mere carjacker — the idea, I guess, is that all tattooed criminals are Evil, and therefore deserving
of death — or the contrived way it's caught on camera by a woman peering out her window).
NEWS (4/18): In Ohio v. Mason, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that its capital sentencing statute does not violate a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury and the U.S. Supreme Court's 2016 decision Hurst v. Florida, which reiterated that a defendant is entitled to a jury finding
of all
facts necessary to impose a
death sentence;» [a] jury's
mere recommendation is not enough.»