Excommunication and shunning

Churches and books have a wide range of doctrines about what to do with the excommunicated.

• The catholic church separates between anathema (which implies some shunning) and simple excommunication
• PCG declares excommunicated family members (except spouses) should be shunned.
• Liberal Baptist on why baptists can't excommunicate or withhold sacraments at all.

• Jonathan Edwards (important American theologian of the 18th century) establishes that excommunicates are to be treated substantially worse than heathens (impolite, and entitled only to minimal human rights) in the Nature and Purpose...