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Sacred Energies : When The Worlds Religions Sit Down To Talk About The Futu
$16.00Add to cart1. The Wake-Up Call
2. The Religion Of The Marketplace
3. Pledging Allegiance To The Corporations
4. This Thing Called Religion
5. The Poetry Of Africa
6. Buddhism: Lessons On Downsizing Wants
7. Hinduism’s Rivers Of Wisdom
8. Ancient Chinese Secrets
9. The Unveiling Of Islam
10. Judaism: Workshop For A New Humanity
11. Protestantism And The Recovery Of Lost Fragrance
12. Catholic Liberation TheologyAdditional Info
Although our age witnesses vast problems, it has also occasioned unprecedented encounters among world religions. This short volume seeks to capture the energy and dynamism of world religious traditions_a central force in human history and society_for illuminating and addressing major global issues: population growth, environmental destruction, freedom, the rights of women and minorities, the place of economics and work, issues of sexuality and the body. Based on consultations of leading scholars and religious leaders from a variety of traditions, it highlights the special insights and lessons each has to offer today.Eminent ethicist Daniel Maguire here conveys the deep humanism and commitment that animate these potentially world-changing traditions.
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Family : A Christian Social Perspective
$20.00Add to cart1. Families, Christian Ethics, And Civil Society
2. Family Bonds And Christian Community: New Testament Sources
3. Family As Church: Three Historical Representations
4. “Domestic Church”: Families And The Common Good
5. Lessons From African American Families
6. A Christian Family VisionAdditional Info
Cahill’s important work brings fresh historical, theological, and ethical thought to the explosive area of family_deeply contested territory in today’s cultural and religious skirmishes.In the religious arena, evangelical-conservative vs. mainline-feminist lines echo larger social battles, contesting the authentic meaning of family within a Christian framework.
Though “family” has been dissected in the academic and cultural wars, Cahill asserts that the usual religious agenda of restoring the traditional nuclear family is actually misinformed and misguided. It bolsters oppressive social, economic, and racial mechanisms that are destroying families at the bottom, middle, and even top of the ladder.
Is there an authentically Christian notion of family? Cahill’s contribution shows in a striking way how very different were counter-cultural New Testament and early-church notions of family from our ideas of “family values;” how, throughout history, other influential Christian examples have emerged in the work of John Chrysostom, Martin Luther, and the Puritans; how, despite distortion by gender and class divisions, there develops a Christian vision of the altruistic family, animated by Christian discipleship to stand for compassion, generosity, and justice; how pertinent this vision of the “domestic church” is to public debate and public policy.
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Ethnic Chicago A Print On Demand Title (Revised)
$57.99Add to cartThis award-winning study of ethnic life in Chicago richly details the various peoples and ethnic institutions in America’s heartland city. This newly revised and expanded edition also includes chapters on African-American migration, Chatham, Latino Chicago, the Chinese in Chicago, Asian Indians, Korean-Americans, the new entrepreneurial immigrants, and the Swedes. There is also a new six-chapter section that examines saloons, sports, crime, churches, neighborhoods, and cemeteries.
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More Than Chains And Toil
$38.00Add to cart1. Unearthing And Remembering: Emancipating The Lives Of Enslaved Women
2. Tools Of The Trade: Methods In Constructing An Enslaved Women’s Work Ethic And Moral Agency
3. By Perseverance And Unwearied Industry
4. Whose Work Ethic? A Womanist Reading Of “A Work Ethic” From The Bible To The United StatesAdditional Info
“More Than Chains And Toil” is a probing and perceptive analysis of work in the experience of African American women. Even though forced labor was the essence of slavery, few have studied the labor of slave women from the perspective of women themselves. The author clarifies and analyzes the meanings that the women bestowed on their labors – meanings that constitute a rich resource of moral value for all who read this book. -
Dirty Hands : Christian Ethics In A Morally Ambiguous World
$17.00Add to cartHow can one make the ethical and “right” decision in a deeply ambiguous moral world? This basic introduction to Christian ethics–with attitude–examines the fundamental ethical problematic of moral decision-making in which knowledge will always be unsure, time short, decisions ambiguous, and consequences multiple and unforseeable. Pluralism and complexity today make personal, sexual, social, medical, business, and political choices “dirty”, and ethics needs to be rethought accordingly.
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Greed : Economics And Ethics In Conflict
$17.00Add to cartWe live in an age of greed. Economic good times and the self-immolation of socialist alternatives have left capitalism unrivaled in popular minds as a way of life, a prized set of values and expectations. Yet it is not without its downside and its victims: Basic human services have become more and more commodified. Corporations unabashedly reorganize for short-term gain at the expense not only of employees but even of their own long-term viability. Decreases in unemployment lead to stock-market panic.
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Doing Justice : Showing Mercy Christian Action In Todays (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartChristians are more aware than ever of problems concerning injustice. How are we to respond? Can one person make a difference? The Bible’s teachings are just as valid–and radical–today as they were centuries ago. They instruct us to live as lights in the darkness, and they reveal the true source of our hope for the world.
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Stewards In The Kingdom
$32.99Add to cartToo often we think stewardship concerns only the money we give to the church. But in the image of the steward the Bible offers a perspective on our entire relationship with God. Here we have ful a full and fresh picture of what it means to be Jesus’ disciple and to live the abundant life.
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Reproduction Revolution A Print On Demand Title
$33.99Add to cartWithin the high-paced, highly controverted field of bioethics, the most hotly debated issues center on sexuality, reproducitve technology, and the family. This new volume from the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity provides a thought-provoling appraisal of the wthical dimension of the reproductive revolution from a Christian perspective. Thirty scholars and medical practitioners discuss some of teh most pressing topics related to human reproduction.
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Agape Eros Gender
$120.00Add to cartIssues of gender and sexuality have recently come to the fore in all humanities disciplines, and this book reflects this broad interdisciplinary situation. It focuses on issues of gender and sexuality (eros) in the light of the comprehensive divine-human love (agape) which, for the New Testament, lies at the heart of Christian faith and practice. The intention is to outline a distinctively Christian understanding of the male/female relationship reflecting the priority of agape over eros. Key Pauline texts are read alongside modern texts by Virginia Woolf, Freud and Irigaray.
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God And Globalization Volume 1
$190.00Add to cartIn the late 20th century, the world has grown increasingly smaller because of advances in technology and the erosion of the nation-state as political paradigm. The process of globalization-with its promises of a common culture, a common currency, and common government-offers a new political model for the world that fosters unity and comminity. At the same time, however, this process threatens to distroy the values, norms, and ideals that particular cultures have wrought and established and to thereby diminish the power of each culture’s unique identity. As globalization occurs, society must decide which values will be narmative and what roles that social institutiions like religion and education will play in slecting and fostering these values.
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Spirit Ethics : Scripture And The Moral Life
$19.00Add to cartJersild’s book deals with the challenge of postmodernity, understanding pluralism, the nature of biblical criticism and attacks upon it, and the role of the believing community and the Spirit in appropriating Scripture. “Absolutely essential,” says Jersild, “to any discussion of scriptural authority for the moral life is the ongoing engagement of the church with the moral environment of society and the issues that this raises for the church.” This means that Christians and Christian churches cannot simply adopt a once-for-all set of rules, nor can they simply cite Bible verses against the latest sins.
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Christian Ethics
$20.99Add to cartPreface
1. Choices
2. Goals
3. Rules
4. Virtues
5. Church
6. Society
Conclusion: Faith And Ethics
Notes
IndexAdditional Info
In this excellent outline of Christian ethics, Robin W. Lovin achieves a balance between the questions and issues which form the core of the study of ethics, and the life situations from which those questions arise.Eschewing a sectarian approach which dismisses other understandings of the moral life, Lovin nonetheless lays claim to a specifically Christian understanding of ethics. He begins with basic Christian convictions about the reality of God and human redemption and weaves these convictions into the fabric of moral concerns that are widely shared in contemporary society. He takes note of the problems that arise when Christians try to act on or enforce their convictions in a pluralistic society and recognizes the variety of theological and moral beliefs that are held within the Christian community, as well as in the wider society.
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Generous Saints : Congregations Rethinking Ethics And Money
$23.00Add to cartA constructive theology and ethics of money in the Christian life, this series addition is by James Hudnut-Beumler, dean and associate professor of religion and culture at Columbia Theological Seminary, and deals with vital questions. “What does the Lord require? what is the true meaning of the term ‘commonwealth?’ and how does the church build a stable base for its members to live ethical lives?” A positive approach to forming the basis for new thought and discussion.
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Rhetoric And Ethic
$23.00Add to cartIn this major study, leading feminist biblical critic Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza continues to explore the paradigm shift underway in biblical studies. Focusing on Paul and his interpreters, she questions the apolitical ethos of biblical scholarship and argues for an alternative rooted in a critical understanding of language as a form of power. Only then, she contends, will biblical studies be “a significant partner in the global struggles seeking justice and well-being for all.”
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Friendship And Society A Print On Demand Title
$28.99Add to cartWhat can I know? What can I hope for? What should I do? These are three perennial questions of life, and few thinkers have offered such penetrating answers as Augustine. Friendship and Society is a fascinating volume meant for those interested in what one of history’s greatest minds had to say about life in an imperfect world. Bringing expert scholarship and a popular readership, this volume assumes no in-depth knowledge of philosophy or prior acquaitance with Augustine’s writings. Unifying this book is a powerful argument that “friendship” can be the tie that binds us all.
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Animal Gospel
$33.00Add to cartIn this book Andrew Linzey provides a new Christian credo for animals. Our treatment of animals is a gospel issue, he contends, because those individuals and institutions that could have become the voice of God’s most vulnerable creatures have instead justified cruelity and oppression.
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Consequences : Morality Ethics And The Future
$18.00Add to cartChristian faith plainly does not guarentee moral behavior, nor do morality and ethics require Christian faith. How can Christians think responsibly about ethical matters, and in what way can they make moral claims in a largely non-Christian society?
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Market Economy And Christian Ethics
$124.00Add to cartIn this book Peter Sedgwick explores the relation of a theology of justice to that of human identity in the context of the market economy. He focuses on three main themes: how the market economy shapes personal identity, through consumption and the experience of paid employment in relation to the work ethic; the impact of the global economy on local cultures; and the effects of technology and global competition on poverty. Sedgwick recommends that the churches remain part of the debate in reforming and humanising the market economy.
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Churchgoing And Christian Ethics
$104.00Add to cartRobin Gill argues that moral communities should take center stage in ethics. This book examines recent evidence about church communities in relation to faith, moral order and love, and shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes, beliefs and behavior. Some attitudes change over time, and there are several moral disagreements among different groups of churchgoers. Moreover, their values and behavior are shared by many nonchurchgoers also. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is crucial for the task of Christian ethics.
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Bonhoeffer (Revised)
$36.50Add to cartWidely acclaimed as the best study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s early social theology, Clifford Green’s work is here fully updated and expanded with important new material not available anywhere else. This revised edition includes newly discovered, previously unpublished letters between Bonhoeffer and Paul Lehmann and between Lehmann and members of Bonhoeffer’s family as well as a substantial new chapter covering Bonhoeffer’s Ethics. In addition, all citations of Bonhoeffer’s writings have been updated to the new German and English editions of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works as will as to the revised, unabridged edition of Eberhard Bethge’s biography.
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God In The Wasteland
$28.50Add to cartDavid F. Well’s award-winnig book No Place for Truth-called “a stinging indictment of evangelicalism’s theological corruption” by TIME magazine-woke many evangelicals to the fact that their tradition has slowly but surely capitulated to the values and structures of the modern world. In God in the Wastland Wells continues his work on a biblical antidote to the modernity that has invaded today’s church.
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Churchgoing And Christian Ethics
$48.99Add to cartRobin Gill argues that moral communities should take center stage in ethics. This book examines recent evidence about church communities in relation to faith, moral order and love, and shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes, beliefs and behavior. Some attitudes change over time, and there are several moral disagreements among different groups of churchgoers. Moreover, their values and behavior are shared by many nonchurchgoers also. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is crucial for the task of Christian ethics.
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Natural And Divine Law
$31.50Add to cartThough the concept of natural law took center stage during the Middle Ages, the theological aspects of this august intellectual tradition have been largely forgotten by the modern church. In this book ethicist Jean Porter shows the continuing significance of the natural law tradition for Christian ethics. Based on a careful analysis of natural law as it emerged in the medieval period, Porter’s work explores several important scholastic theologians and canonists whose writings are not only worthy of study in their own right but also make important contributions to moral reflection today.
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Responsible Self : An Essay In Christian Moral Philosophy
$37.00Add to cartThe Responsible Self was H. Richard Niebuhr’s most important work in Christian ethics, and it remains a landmark contribution to the field.
Here Niebuhr probes the fundamental character of the moral life. He finds the key in the concept of responsibility, which implies not only the freedom and flexibility of responsiveness to others but also a guiding ideal of unlimited concern that goes beyond vague norms and narrow codes.
The book is based on lectures delivered by Niebuhr at Glasgow University. James M. Gustafson, who was Niebuhr’s colleague at Yale Divinity School, provides a brilliant introduction. -
Contigency And Fortune In Aquinass Ethics
$118.00Add to cartBowlin argues that the strength of Aquinas’ moral theology is his assumption about our common lot: the good we desire is difficult to know and to will, particularly because of contingencies of various kinds–within ourselves, in the ends and objects we pursue, and in the circumstances of choice. Since contingencies are fortune’s effects, Aquinas insists that fortune makes good choice difficult. Bowlin explores Aquinas’ treatment of virtue, agency, and happiness in this context, and places him more precisely in the history of ethics, among Aristotle, Augustine, and the Stoics.
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Bioethics A Print On Demand Title
$35.99Add to cartWe live in an age when scientific knowledge has provided human beings with an unprecedented ability to manipulate life and death. Changes in science and culture have fueled the controversies surrounding abortion, physician assisted suicide, genetic engineering, the patient doctor relationship, cloning and the allocation of health care resources, to name a few. The purpose of this series is to bring thoughtful and biblically informed Christian voices in bioethics into dialogue with other voices that are influential today.
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Parables Of Jesus
$22.00Add to cartThey’re some of the world’s best-known stories—the parables of Jesus. Each chapter of this accessible book examines an individual story, identifies its theme, explains biblical language and customs, and interprets its meaning for you today. Originally published as And Jesus Said, it cross-references Barclay’s popular Daily Study Bible. Excellent for individual or group study.
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Moral Action And Christian Ethics
$51.00Add to cartHow do we decide whether an action is right or wrong? Recently, moral philosophers have moved away from the claim that we can find one definite solution to every moral problem by means of clearly established moral rules. While sympathetic to their critiques of modern moral theories, Porter questions whether these critiques go far enough in offering a positive alternative to a modern view of the moral act. Instead, she returns to Aquinas, and seeks to reclaim his understanding of the moral act as a product of interdependent moral virtues.
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Pastor As Moral Guide
$25.00Add to cartAdultery, divorce, racism, teen pregnancy, white-collar crime, living wills — these are among the many complex moral issues that Christians face and for which they often seek guidance from their pastors. This book is designed to assist pastors in developing their skills in providing moral guidance to their parishioners in a culture characterized by both ethical confusion and increasingly complex moral choices. Rebekah Miles, a gifted thinker and writer, guides the reader through the landscape of the moral life and offers a simple but profound map of the moral terrain along with practical tools to enable pastoral caregivers to serve more effectively as moral guides.
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Responsibility And Christian Ethics
$45.99Add to cartWilliam Schweiker formulates a way of thinking about issues of power, moral identity, and ethical norms by developing a theory of responsibility from a specifically theological viewpoint. The drastic extension of human power through various technological developments has lately thrown into question the way human beings conceive of themselves as morally accountable agents. This radical extension of power poses the need for a new paradigm of responsibility in ethics, located by the author in Christian faith.
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Community Liberalism And Christian Ethics
$129.00Add to cartThis book is an examination of current issues in the related fields of moral philosophy and Christian theology. It raises the question of whether and to what extent Christian moral presuppositions are distinctive or are held in common with other persons and communities. Attention is devoted to debates in pluralist societies about the relation of moral belief and action to tradition, community and story. A mediating position is advocated whereby recognition is accorded to both the distinctiveness of Christian convictions and their overlap with other moral positions.
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Conscience And Its Problems
$55.00Add to cartOriginally published in 1927, this book stands as a pertinent, original, and insightful contribution to contemporary ethics. Kirk addresses the rationale for moral thought, the role of the church as a moral community, and the handling of problematic moral situations through a case-by case analysis (an approach known as casuistry). What is the church to make of Jack Kevorkian? Kirk provides a framework for responding to such issues.
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Losing Our Virtue
$25.50Add to cartWells loudly throws down the gauntlet to the evangelical church in this perceptive analysis of our culture in crisis. Painting a vivid description of society’s moral and spiritual confusion, he explains how the church can regain its effectiveness and influence in our postmodern world. A challenging look at social reform vs. spiritual transformation.
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Reason For The Hope Within
$43.99Add to cartAs a new believer, Murray found that explaining his faith was a lot trickier when talking to unsympathetic philosophy professors. Refined by years of graduate work at Notre Dame, he now presents a condensation of recent work in Christian philosophy for those with deep intellectual curiosity and a desire to defend orthodox Christianity.
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Epistemology : Becoming Intellectually Virtous
$21.99Add to cartHow do we know what we know? What have wisdom, prudence and studiousness to do with justifying our beliefs? Jay Wood begins this introduction to epistemology by taking an extended look at the idea of knowing within the context of intelluctual virtues. He then surveys current views of foundationalism, epistemic justification and reliabilism. Finally, he examines the relationship of epistemology to religious belief, and the role of emotions and virtues in proper cognitive functioning.
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Why Scripture Matters
$39.00Add to cartThis book is about how the church reads scripture – and how, in a time of theological and ethical uncertainty, the church can maintain different readings of scripture without degernating further into ideological warfare. In a stirring final chapter, John Burgess explores the possibility of resolving concrete differences in the current hotbutton issues of the church. He contends that adopting the attitude of the “piety of the Word” has the power to help unify disparate voices – despite the current hostilities found in every denomination.
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Promise Of Lutheran Ethics
$29.00Add to cartHere ten Lutheran theologians explore Lutheran emphases, themes, and approaches to offer their account of Christian ethics as a way of life in today’s world. Writing in dialogue, they raise foundational concerns of biblical and theological sources and norms, of Christian freedom and responisbility, of call and social witness, of justice and formation in prayer. Then in a lively “TableTalk” the participants discuss and debate the tradition’s insights and oversights and show how it might illumine today’s burning ethical issues, such as homosexuality.
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Priorities And Christian Ethics
$124.00Add to cartChristians have agreed, as have others, that preference should go to some extent to one’s nearest, and also to some extent to the neediest. However, to what extent should we give preference to which group? And suppose these two preferences come into conflict, as they frequently do? This book provides the fullest contemporary treatment of these issues. The author brings to bear all the resources of theological and philosophical reflection on a single representative case, and from the single example, sheds light on a wide range of comparable cases, both private and public.
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Reason In The Balance
$30.99Add to cartNow available in softcover! In this hard-hitting best-seller, Johnson dares to challenge naturalistic thought—today’s prevailing philosphy that the material world is all there was, is, or will be. His penetrating assessment of naturalism’s pervasive influence on science, law, and education helps you form a clear, biblical response to this intellectual and moral threat.
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Against The Third Reich
$40.00Add to cart“From the Publisher:” During World War II, the US asked Tillich to rally native Germans through a series of radio broadcasts. In these addresses, available in English for the first time, he is passionate and political–urging Germans to recognize the horror of Hitler and to reject a morally and spiritually bankrupt government.
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Burden Of The Flesh
$29.00Add to cartShaw’s rich and fascinating work provides a startling look at early Christian notions of the body diet, sexuality, the passions, and especially the ideal of virginity and sheds important light on the growth of Christian ideals that remain powerful cultural forces even today.
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When The Powers Fall
$15.00Add to cartRepressive authoritarian regimes are falling and fragile new democracies emerging around the globe. How are longstanding conflicts and deep divisions to be healed and enemies reconciled without breeding further injustices? To answer this question, Walter Wink here applies his compelling analysis of “the Powers,” as they appear in the New Testament, to the global scene. Surveying the wrenching religious and ethical dilemmas involved in transitions from despotism to democracy, Wink neatly summerizes key concepts from his Fortress Press trilogy on the Powers including sections on ‘Jesus against Domination” and “Nonviolence.”
