Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

This book examines the critical nature of engaging families in mental health interventions that promote well-being and resilience in young children, from birth to 8 years of age, with a particular focus on the importance of equity and systems of care.

Parenting is difficult under the best of circumstances--but extremely daunting when humanity faces cataclysmic annihilation.

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

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

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.

"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.

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.

«Probablement no hi ha res més difícil en aquest món que criar un infant».

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

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.

This book fills a gap in early developmental psychology by providing a critical reconsideration of the status of artifact objects as protagonists of children's actions and communication.

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

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

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

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.

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?

Responsible Belief tackles the problem of fixing the tenacity of believers in forming, holding, and modifying beliefs.

A House Divided helps answer the question, how do Christians form moral judgments about sex-linked issues?

Although written from a Lutheran religious tradition, the invitation and reach of They Are Us: Lutherans and Immigration, Second Edition is broad and inclusive.

Dietrich Bonhoeffers work has persistently challenged Christian consciousness due to both his death at the hands of the Nazis and his provocative prison musings about Christian faithfulness in late modernity.

A classic text in biblical theology--still relevant for today and tomorrow.

Mechanistic dehumanization occurs when human beings are objectified and exploited as a means to an end, comparable to expendable components of a machine.

This book's central claim is that a close reading of Augustine's epistemology can help political theologians develop affirmative accounts of political liberalism.

From the US to Nepal, author J.

At the center of contemporary struggles over aggressive policing practices is an assumed association in U.

Radical Friendship explores the contours of communal discernment as a practice that is especially relevant to Christians seeking radical democratic alternatives to the predominance of political liberalism.

The saying "e;it takes a village to raise a child"e; is especially true for families with special needs children.

By redefining terms and language, the far-left controls discourse and alters Western civilization even to the extreme of exchanging that which was formerly nearly universally condemned for what is now nearly universally celebrated--the almost total desecration of the created order (Rom 1:18-32).

We want to live good lives, but determining what a good life is isn't easy, especially if we want the lives we lead to be ours, rather than somebody else's.

For over forty years Stanley Hauerwas has been writing theology that matters.

The linguistic aspect of Womanism offers learners values as any other social language.

Addressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of crisis, Nature and the Human Soul introduces a visionary ecopsychology of human development that reveals how fully and creatively we can mature when soul and wild nature guide us.

Many natural scientists believe climate change will bring civilizational collapse.

This volume explores the essential relationship between spirituality and activism in conversation with a political theology of the cross.

A devout Catholic politician assassinated by a capricious dictator.

Anderson shows how Early Christians' faith took root in a multicultural world just as diverse and conflicted as our own.

How can one be a Christian in the world of business, not just on the weekend?

We cannot solve the problem of plastics simply by recycling more.

Restore Your Relationship, Enhance Your MarriageNew York Times Bestseller#1 Bestseller in Marriage & Family, Family Relationships, and DivorceCultivate effective communication and a lasting relationship.

How can we be just and merciful?

Evangelical discourse on the role of arts in the church can be radioactive, and the twenty-one contributors to this book walk right into the "e;hot zone"e; to pick up on twenty contentious questions.

This book hails from decades of challenging trial-and-error work, abundant reading, and an enduring obligation to ministers, activists, and unsung lay heroes whose legacies matter.

For many Christians, spirituality and ethics are in separate mental and experiential compartments.

Healing the Racial Divide retrieves the insights of Dr.

A war is always a moral event.