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The Paradox of Church and World: Selected Writings of H. Richard Niebuhr
“Ultimately,” wrote H. Richard Niebuhr in 1929, “the problem of church and world involves us in a paradox; unless the church accommodates itself to the world it becomes sterile inwardly and outwardly; unless it transcends the world it becomes indistinguishable from the world and loses its effectiveness no less surely.”
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Christian Ethics at the Boundary: Feminism and Theologies of Public Life
In contemporary reflection on Christianity and politics, the work of realist, witness, and feminist theologians has been done in isolation. Christian Ethics at the Boundary offers the first collaborative approach to public and political theology.
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Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis: Political Exegesis for a New Day
We live in an age in which economic, ecological, and political crises are not the exception, but the rule. The Cold War polarities that shaped an earlier "political exegesis" have been replaced; increasingly, crisis is the engine of a global "turbo-capitalism."
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The Limits of Forgiveness: Case Studies in the Distortion of a Biblical Ideal
Maria Mayo questions the contemporary idealization of unconditional forgiveness in three areas of contemporary life: so-called Victim-Offender Mediation involving cases of criminal injury, the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post-apartheid South Africa, and the pastoral care of victims of domestic violence.
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Beyond Apathy: A Theology for Bystanders
Theological conversations about violence typically frame the conversation in terms of victim and perpetrator. Comprehensive theological responses to violence must also address the role of collective passivity of bystanders of violence. Beyond Apathy examines the theological significance of bystander participation in patterns of violence and violation within contemporary Western culture, giving particular attention to the social issues of bullying, white racism, and sexual violence. In doing so, it constructs a theology of redeeming grace for bystanders to violence that foregrounds the significance of social action in bringing about God's community.
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Environment, Economy, and Christian Ethics: Alternative Views on Christians and Markets
Economist Alistair Young argues that environmental policy raises important ethical and theological issues around uncertainty, inequality the rights of traditional communities, and the obligation to respect nonhuman creation.
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Bodies of Peace: Ecclesiology, Nonviolence, and Witness
Covering several great Christian thinkers, this book explores how each theologians' advocacy for nonviolent resistance depends deeply upon the ecclesiology out of which it comes.
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Preservation and Protest: Theological Foundations for an Eco-Eschatological Ethics
McLaughlin offers an alternative to anthropocentric and conservationist paradigms within the Christian tradition, an alternative that affirms both scientific claims about natural history and the theological hope for eschatological redemption.
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Saving Beauty: A Theological Aesthetics of Nature
With interdisciplinary verve, engaging systematic, philosophical, and art theory systems of aesthetics, this volume fosters the cultivation of the sense of beauty through creative, religious, and sacramental experience. All three types, in fact, are critically nec
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By Bread Alone: The Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry
Here biblical scholars take readings of the Old and New Testaments, exploring the dynamics of hunger and its causation in ancient Israel and the Greco-Roman world and revealing the centrality of hunger concerns to the Bible.
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Idols of Nations: Biblical Myth at the Origins of Capitalism
Roland Boer and Christina Petterson here produce a critical survey showing that the rise of capitalist theory was shaped by the way different economic philosophers read the Bible.
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The Ethics of Death: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives in Dialogue
In The Ethics of Death, the authors undertake an examination of the deaths that we experience as members of a larger moral community. Unafraid of difficult topics, they fully engage suicide, physician assisted suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, abortion, and war as areas of life where death poses moral challenges.
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Political Vanity: Adam Ferguson on the Moral Tensions of Early Capitalism
Political Vanity aims to illuminate the central debates over the historical, moral, and political legitimacy of market capitalism by engaging central theorists of the Scottish Enlightenment, in particular the philosopher and sociologist Adam Ferguson.
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Future of the Prophetic: Israel's Ancient Wisdom Re-presented
The new situation of contemporary prophetic challenges the fixed religious landscape of Judaism by reversing traditional boundaries, eschewing power and privilege, and brokering peace through solidarity and common struggle in ecumenical and interfaith contexts.
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Redeeming a Prison Society: A Liturgical and Sacramental Response to Mass Incarceration
The United States criminal justice system is in a state of crisis, from unprecedented rates of imprisonment and recidivism to the privatization of the prison system and the disproportionate representation of particular racial, ethnic, social, and economic groups. Amy Levad offers a Catholic perspective that directly addresses the concrete issues from a strongly interdisciplinary approach and utilizes the rich liturgical and sacramental resources of penance and Eucharist to offer a theological vision of reform.
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Extremist for Love: Martin Luther King Jr., Man of Ideas and Nonviolent Social Action
Martin Luther King Junior is a rare mix of the deeply profound thinker and intellect who put the fruit of that reflection into the service of direct social action.
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Mapping Exile and Return: Palestinian Dispossession and a Political Theology for a Shared Future
Through an analysis of Palestinian refugee mapping practices for returning to their homeland, Alain Epp Weaver offers a political theology of redrawing the territory compatible with a bi-national vision for a shared Palestinian-Israeli future.
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Sallie McFague: Collected Readings
Sallie McFague offers a powerful guide to theological thinking about God and the world, individual and community, humanity and nature, reality and metaphor, the sacramental and the prophetic, and the critical issue of climate change.
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Walter Wink: Collected Readings
Wink's work is a must read for twenty-first century theologians and all who seek deeper understanding at the intersection of Bible, theology, social ethics, and more.
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We Are Who We Think We Were: Christian History and Christian Ethics
Conley calls into question the outdated historical methodologies in use in Christian social ethics and outlines the consequences stemming from them. By adopting the postmodern...
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