Religious ethics Books

An actology--introduced by the first book in this series, Actology: Action, Change and Diversity in the Western Philosophical Tradition--understands reality as action in changing patterns. Actological Readings in Continental Philosophy reads a number of...

"The Power of True Christian Virtue: Unleashing Your Full Potential" is a book that explores the transformative power of Christian virtues in one's personal and spiritual life. The book emphasizes the importance of cultivating virtues such as...

The book, A Collection Of The Several Writings Of That True Prophet Faithful Servant Of God, And Sufferer For The Testimony Of Jesus, William Bayly Who Finished His Testimony And Laid Down His Head In Peace With The Lord, The First Day Of The Fourth...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Ethik, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Viele sehr unterschiedliche Dinge und Sachverhalte, das aktuelle Geschehen in Politik, Wirtschaft und Berufsleben beschäftigen die Gesellschaft von heute - nur nicht das...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Theologie - Sonstiges, Note: 1,5, Theologisches Seminar Adelshofen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Darf ein Christ zu alternativer Medizin greifen oder nicht? Diese Arbeit hat sich der Beantwortung dieser Frage...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit untersucht die Theodizee von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, als eines der bedeutendsten Werke der...

In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Gabriel soon finds himself at a secret underground anarchist meeting place, under oath not to disclose its existence to...

Liturgy at its best has the power to transform the community of the faithful. The liturgies in this book focus on lament, especially the lament experienced by communities of people facing environmental degradation and loss. It is often observed that...

White supremacy and racialized violence have animated much of society and church in the United States. Many people of goodwill are grasping for what to do in the face of such broad-reaching and painful wounds. From tracing the emergence of the modern...

God loves animals and gives them a special place in creation. So, do animals also have a place in God's work of redemption? Will there be animals on the new Earth? Will we see our beloved pets in the afterlife? This book takes up the challenge to think...

The bestselling Orbis classic, with a new foreword by Sister Helen Prejean. Nolan's portrait of Jesus introduces us to the man as he was before he became enshrined in doctrine, dogma, and ritual, a man deeply involved with the real problems of his...

Argues that the problem of impending ecological devastation cannot be solved without a repudiation of the whiteness, and white theology that created it. This means naming and rejecting white epistemological hubris, which objectifies the land and...

An overview of Pope Francis's contribution to Catholic social teaching, drawing especially on his teaching in Fratelli Tutti.

An answer to our most difficult social problems is underway, and it begins locally. In How to Remake the World Neighborhood by Neighborhood, Mack McCarter, founder of Community Renewal International (CRI), tells how CRI built a movement to heal racial...

An analysis of anti-Asian racism, told from a Catholic perspective and including relevant CST documents and current examples of anti-Asian racism, compared and contrasted with anti-Black racism. Three damaging anti-Asian stereotypes are examined from the...

The modern restorative justice movement, perhaps one of the most important social movements of our time, was born in a Christian home to Christian parents, specifically to Christian peace workers striving to put their faith into action in the public...

Not many theologians have had as great an impact on the study of peace and violence as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was labeled an Enemy of the State and eventually executed in April 1945. In this book, Trey Palmisano examines the theological connection...

The quest to live much longer has moved from legend to the laboratory. Recent breakthroughs in genetics and pharmacology have put humanity on the precipice of slowing down human aging to extend the healthy life span. The promise of longer, healthier life...

For over forty years Stanley Hauerwas has been writing theology that matters. In this new collection of essays, lectures, and sermons, Hauerwas continues his life's work of exploring the theological web, discovering and recovering the connections...

What does it mean, as a person of faith, to maintain and even strengthen one's physical body? What does it mean to "glorify God in your body" (1 Corinthians 6:20) in a time when bodily perfection is popularly defined by advertising firms, while food...

Today, we live in a world where we are less exposed to violence than at any other time in history. However, we also know that violence can come knocking on our door at any moment. Preparing for this possibility means more than physical safety; it means...

Political philosophy is nothing other than looking at things political under the aspect of eternity. This book invites us to look philosophically at political things in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, demonstrating that Tolkien's potent mythology can be...

The place of religion within a secular society has been much discussed in recent years, fueled in part by Charles Taylor's Secular Age (2007). The conversation surrounding Taylor's work suggests a widespread interest in religion in secular or...

Symptoms of broken systems are all around us, due to our over-consumptive lifestyles, nearly unfettered capitalism, failure to live peaceably together, and the societal dismissal of nature's limits. Climate change is our new reality, and we must respond...

Perhaps more than any philosophy written in the past few centuries, the work of Friedrich Nietzsche has given rise to controversy, misunderstanding, and dissent. Today Nietzsche is remembered as the revolutionary author of such polemical ideas as the...

From Wall Street to Main Street, the moral toxicity in our country is alarming. There are frightening signs that America is on the same path to destruction as the Roman Empire was before its fall. Since America has embraced secular progressivism and...

This volume brings together a decade of reflection at the intersection of culture, economics, and theology. Addressing topics ranging from the family to work, politics, and the church, Jordan J. Ballor shows how the Christian faith calls us to get...

The book is about showing different ways of doing ethics, highlighting a kind of methodological pluralism. This book attempts to relate the difference in methodology and perspective to difference in identity, focal point of analysis, or projects of...

Despite the fact that the theological gains of Latin American Liberation Theology (LALT) have been incorporated into several theologies around the world, many North Atlantic evangelicals still consider LALT a heresy. The underlying reason for the lack of...

The world's poorest people are struggling to access quality, affordable health care. Change is urgently required. Faith-based organizations deliver more than 40 percent of health services in many of the poorest places. This book argues FBOs can--and...

In the early 1970s, living in inner-city St. Louis, Paul Gilk asked his friends to explain why small farms were dying. The answers did not satisfy. Years of study followed. Through the reading of history, Gilk began to grasp the origins of both...

Bangert shows how the work of three major contemporary Protestant thinkers, James M. Gustafson, Sallie McFague, and David Ray Griffin, may be fruitfully appropriated for the articulation of an ethics that is responsive to the Christian tradition while...

Telling in current biblical postcolonial discourse that draws insights from the works of Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, and postcolonial theorists is the missing contribution of Leopold Sedar Senghor, the architect of Negritude. If mentioned at all, Senghor...

After a generation of being a leading progressive voice both in the pulpit and in the print media of Springfield, Missouri, Roger Ray has collected one hundred of his essays on topics of social justice, religion, sex, economics, warfare, and race as a...

The Tragedy of Almightiness encircles the theme of human yearning for omnipotence, as expressed in religion and various ideologies. The central question revolves around the matter of what--in pursuing such an extreme power of the will--man seeks to...

ContentsAnnouncement of the 2014 SymposiumAbbreviationsIntroductionKlyne SnodgrassVisions of Horror, Visions of Hope: An Orientation for Urban Ministry from the Book of AmosM. Daniel Carroll R.Response to CarrollNathan BillsEarly Christian Communities in...

What is justice? How do we know justice? How is justice cultivated in society? These are the three questions that guide this critical dialogue with two representatives of the Catholic and Protestant traditions: Karl Barth and Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II...

The HIV pandemic has caused serious challenges for the Church as well as for theology. The pandemic has brought enormous human suffering to individuals and has affected families and entire societies. In this context, churches need to listen and to learn,...

Despite its title, this is not a morbid or depressing book, but one that it is hoped will bring encouragement and comfort to all who are experiencing life's difficulties, even to the point of wondering if they wish to continue living. However, the...

In the wake of the furious demonstrations and debates evoked by terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere, Dr. Anderson's pithy essays unfold respectful, moderating responses that take seriously the cultural and religious differences that breed resentment...

Harold J. Recinos is the son of a Guatemalan father and Puerto Rican mother who at age twelve was abandoned to New York City streets. After living on the streets between the ages of twelve and sixteen, Recinos met a Presbyterian minister who had...

Faith Confronts Nuclear Power is a theological critique that attempts to call people to action in the battle against nuclear power. Nuclear power is a sophisticated, terribly expensive, and frightfully dangerous way to boil water. What is it doing to the...

Why should Christians care about animals? Is there a biblical basis for abstaining from eating animals? Is avoiding companies that use (and misuse) animals a viable way for Christians to better live out the message of God?In Animals Are Not Ours, Sarah...

Sermons On Moral Subjects is a collection of sermons written by Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman and published in 1864. The book contains a total of 15 sermons that focus on various moral and ethical issues, including the importance of charity, the...

Pride V1: One Of The Seven Cardinal Sins is a book written by Eugene Sue in 1899. The book is about the sin of pride, which is one of the seven deadly sins. The story revolves around a young man named Lucien de Croisenois, who is a victim of his own...

De Conscientia Et Ejus Jure, Vel Casibus, Libri Quinque est opus magnum Guilielmi Amesii, theologus et jurisconsultus Anglicus, quod in anno Domini 1654 editum est. In hoc libro, Amesius tractat de conscientia, quae est virtus moralis quae hominem...

Burden-Bearing: Three Sermons is a book written by James Hamilton and published in 1874. The book contains three sermons that explore the concept of burden-bearing, which is a central theme in Christianity. In the first sermon, Hamilton discusses the...