Religious issues and debates

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In recent American politics, the term "e;morality"e; has come to be used in a way almost entirely restricted to private family and sexual issues, leaving aside responsibility for immensely consequential decisions about initiating wars, oppressive policies, regressive tax structures, and disregard of the United Nations and international law.

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Contemporary Issues in Bioethics: A Catholic Perspective applies the best of the Roman Catholic theological and ethical tradition to some of the most controversial and complex bioethical topics that confront contemporary society.

The experience of Wollom Jensen's distinguished career in military service and James Childs's long and productive career in the fields of theology and ethics combine to bring Christian ethics into dialogue with the harsh realities of military service in today's world of war.

The current immigration crisis on our southern borders is usually debated from a safe distance.

Americans are using more medical services every year, but as many as half of those services do nothing to improve their health.

Traditional preaching, along with the mainline churches in which it has been most prevalent over the years, is losing its appeal for growing numbers of people who are caught up in the dangers and confusion of our fragmented world.

Making Your Way to the Pulpit is a book for beginning preachers, for preachers who will never have a seminary course called "e;homiletics"e; (the art of preaching), for preachers who studied homiletics with William Hethcock and want a review, and for all preachers who are looking for a tested, reliable approach to sermon preparation.

Christian engagement with economics tends to baptize preexisting sociopolitical perspectives, thereby assuming a predetermined metaphysical narrative.

Like Ripples on Water is, first of all, a book about Russian Baptists and their preaching.

Against the individualism and abstractionism of standard modern accounts of justification and epistemic merit, Wolterstorff incorporates the ethics of belief within the full scope of a person's socio-moral accountability, an accountability that ultimately flows from the teleology of the world as intended by its creator and from the inherent value of humans as bearers of the divine image.

An intimate portrait of the daily realities of life in contemporary JerusalemThere is no escaping the Jerusalem of the religious imagination.

"e;Bless me Father, for I have sinned,"e; says the penitent to open the dialogue in Catholic confessionals across the globe and throughout the ages.

This collection of sermons adds compelling clarity to the growing chorus of Christian voices that are passionate about LGBTQ justice and equality--not in spite of their faith but precisely because of it.

Tim's wife, Anne, died of breast cancer at the age of forty-nine, having battled against the disease for more than six years.

Life happens at the intersection of faith and culture.

The nature of Kierkegaard's political legacy is complicated by the religious character of his writings.

In this succinct, inviting volume, four Balkan theologians probe their contextual ways with the theology of Jurgen Moltmann, whose classic The Crucified God influenced novel theological approaches around the globe, most recently the emerging postwar Christian theology in the Balkans.

Remarkable is how extensively in each parable Jesus provides a subtle but rich array of unexpected possibilities hidden within the hierarchies of power so commonplace in his world.

According to the Reformers, preaching is the word of God.

Two issues in particular engaged me [when studying in seminary and graduate school].

Metaethics is the study of moral language, moral ontology, and moral epistemology.

Roots Matter recognizes the impact of transgenerational trauma, as a result of chattel slavery, on the African American community.

While the traditional Christian engagement with environmental ethics too often begins and ends with Genesis, this project joins numerous recent efforts by biblical scholars to identify new foundations on which Christians can make ethical choices about creation.

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The Orthodox Church has been characterized by some as "e;the best-kept secret in North America.

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Have you ever been frustrated with or perhaps even frightened about writing a religious research proposal?

A classic theology and a contemporary school of preaching come together in this new work.

Moral Leadership tells you all you need to know to lead.

Called to be a Pastor: Why it Matters to Both Congregations and Clergy is a how-to resource with a memoir touch, describing the essential but delicate partnership between clergy and congregation.

This book explores the phenomenon of conversion to Shi'a Islam in Italy.

In Dimensions of Faith, cognitive scientist Steve Donaldson takes readers on a journey from the world of assumptions, set minds, widely varying beliefs, and popular misconceptions to an understanding of the true essence and role of faith as the natural and inevitable product of brains.

While serving as Interim Pastor in the 1993-1994 church year, Kenneth Vaux announced a year-long sermon series entitled "e;Intimations of the Sacred.

In Setting the Captives Free Marion Carson sets out to answer the question, what does the Bible say about human trafficking?

The Bible proclaims a message of liberation.

In the century and a half since Darwin's Origin of Species, there has been an ongoing--and often vociferously argued--conversation about our species' place in creation and its relationship to a Creator.

People worldwide find themselves part of overlapping communities of identity and belonging--racial, political, cultural, sexual, ideological.

This book calls attention to an urgent need for postcolonial feminist approaches to practical theology.

What is found in this series, unveils an entirely different side of C.

The locus of God's change and transformation in the world is through local groups of believers immersed in relationships among those directly impacted by injustice.

Immigration has in recent years become a hotly contested subject in public political and social discussions.

Wie geht es weiter mit unsrer Zukunft, in Politik, Gesellschaft, unserem Leben?

Religion has influenced the development of science over the past two millennia.

A philosopher and a business leader have a friendly debate about whether it makes sense to speak of God having a strategy for the human race.

Each year many young Christians leave the comfort and security of their towns, cities, and communities to enter a new world: college.

In six brief chapters Chris Neufeld-Erdman sketches the contours of a way Christians can travel the challenging road before us.

The purpose of this book, Diary of Agony and Hope, explores the ethical themes of justice and hope through the lens of folk sayings, case studies, and real-life experiences on the part of the writer as a resident of St.

What are the resources and teachings in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam that take hospitality--and its call to provide protective hospitality--seriously enough to inform shared action and belief on behalf of the threatened other?