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This is a 5 page paper discussing the issues in “Evangelium vitae” written by Pope John Paul II in 1995. The topics covered include the threats to human life, euthanasia, abortion, capital punishment, moral obligations, moral and civil law, and his central arguments.
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culture of life" and the "culture of death". This choice is the basis for all of the threats to human life and also the basis toward the moral obligation of
each human to protect those who cant protect themselves. Moral law must also extend to civil law and humans can turn toward the Scriptures for guidance during times when a
choice must be made. Pope John Paul IIs eleventh encyclical, "The Gospel of Life" (Evangelium vitae) published on March 25, 1995 recounts the
testimony which is central to his papacy and details his ideals regardless to how different they are from cultural convictions (Hehir, 1995). The publication from John Paul II received world
wide press and using his distinctive style discusses a broad range of controversial issues. The text is broken down into four chapters which in turn lead into one another. Chapter
One discusses the threats of life. Chapter Two discusses the positive Christian vision of life. Chapter Three discusses detailed arguments about the defense of life as it applied to different
circumstances and Chapter Four discusses building a culture of life (Hehir, 1995). The threats to human life can be discussed on ancient, modern and post-modern levels. The ancient threats which
have been discussed in the past and are relatively well known are based on the worst instincts of human nature which seem to defy humans from improvement. The ancient threats
are poverty, hunger, war and genocide. These ancients threats are felt across the globe and while some instances they occur because of acts of nature, others occur because of human
hatred which continues to claim many victims (Hehir, 1995). The modern threats to human life are much more complicated in nature. The modern threats are often based on positive instincts
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