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  • Hope in Troubled Times

    A New Vision for Confronting Global Crises

    by Bob Goudzwaard, Mark Vander Vennen, David Van Heemst ...
    Word Guild 2008 Writing Award (Culture)We want to have it all: financial strength, secure homes, clean air and water for our children. With the latest technological advances available, we deserve to have every dilemma resolved. Isn't that the way it's supposed to work? Hope in Troubled Times dares to say "no."Poverty, terrorism, and overtaxed land are planetary problems that make even believers ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Mainstreaming Torture

    Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States

    by Rebecca Gordon ...
    The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in America had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible? Within days, some began to suggest that, in these new circumstances, the new answer was "yes." Rebecca Gordon argues that September 11 did not, as some have said, "change everything," and that institutionalized state torture remains ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • We Hold These Truths

    Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition

    by John Courtney Murray, SJ ...
    Series series A Sheed & Ward Classic
    The 1960 publication of We Hold These Truths marked a significant event in the history of modern American thought. Since that time, Sheed & Ward has kept the book in print and has published several studies of John Courtney Murray's life and work. We are proud to present a new edition of this classic text, which features a comprehensive introduction by Peter Lawler that places Murray in the context ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Living the Catholic Social Tradition

    Cases and Commentary

    by David Rusk, William P. Bolan, Patrick J. Hayes, Monika K. Hellwig, Christopher C. Kelly, Bishop John J. Leibrecht, Steven M. Rodenborn, Kathleen Dolan Seipel, Todd David Whitmore, Rev. Robert J. Vitillo, Thomas Massaro, Joseph M. Palacios ...
    In a time when the global and national economies seem to favor so few and harm so many, when the threats to the common good are so prevalent and so deep, how do people of faith think about these issues and act with those who are most vulnerable? Living the Catholic Social Tradition: Cases and Commentary addresses these challenges through contemporary theory and research conducted within the ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Romero's Legacy

    The Call to Peace and Justice

    by Pilar Hogan Closkey, Gustavo Gutierrez, Helen Prejean, Daniel G. Groody, Thomas J. Gumbleton, Diana L. Hayes, Robert T. McDermott ...
    Pilar Hogan Closkey and John Hogan have brought together the annual Archbishop Oscar Romero Lectures (2001-2007) to consider the life and death of Archbishop Romero and the daily struggles of the poor in our world, especially in the city of Camden, New Jersey-one of America's poorest cities. Romero's 'dangerous memory' provides the background, while urban poverty and the option for the poor are ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Religious Diversity

    Philosophical and Political Dimensions

    by Roger Trigg ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
    Should we merely celebrate diversity in the sphere of religion? What of the social cohesion of a country? There is a constant tug between belief in religious truth and the need for respect for other religions. Religious Diversity: Philosophical and Political Dimensions examines how far a firm faith can allow for toleration of difference and respect the need for religious freedom. It elucidates the ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Christian Political Ethics

    Edited by John A. Coleman ...
    Series series Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics
    Christian Political Ethics brings together leading Christian scholars of diverse theological and ethical perspectives--Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist--to address fundamental questions of state and civil society, international law and relations, the role of the nation, and issues of violence and its containment. Representing a unique fusion of faith-centered ethics and social science ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Evil That Men Do

    Faith, Injustice and the Church

    by Marcus Paul ...
    At a time when barbarous acts of terrorism are being committed globally and society ponders whether the perpetrators are legitimate religious adherents, Marcus Paul makes an unflinching and counter-cultural examination of some of the worst periods in the Church's history.Were the crusades entirely inexcusable religious wars? Was the Inquisition the bloody and sadistic "Black Legend" of popular ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Albert Schweitzer

    A Biography

    by Nils Ole Oermann ...
    This biography provides a versatile insight into the life, work, and thought of Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965). Nils Ole Oermann offers a detailed account of the multifaceted life of Albert Schweitzer who was a theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. Schweitzer's life was not a straight path from the parsonage in Alsace to the University of Strasbourg, then on to the ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics

    by Lisa Sowle Cahill ...
    Series series New Studies in Christian Ethics
    Global realities of human inequality, poverty, violence and ecological destruction call for a twenty-first-century Christian response which links cross-cultural and interreligious cooperation for change to the Gospel. This book demonstrates why just action is necessarily a criterion of authentic Christian theology, and gives grounds for Christian hope that change in violent structures is really ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Christian Political Theology

    Edited by Craig Hovey, Elizabeth Phillips ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    Interest in political theology has surged in recent years, and this accessible volume provides a focused overview of the field. Many are asking serious questions about religious faith in secular societies, the origin and function of democratic polities, worldwide economic challenges, the shift of Christianity's center of gravity to the global south, and anxieties related to bold and even violent ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • God's People and the Seduction of Empire

    Hearing God’s call in the modern age

    by Graham Turner ...
    Foreword by Michael Woolcock (World Bank & Lecturer at Harvard University)“An accessible, radical and rare example of the aliveness and relevance of both the Old and New Testaments. Allow your faith to be energised and made passionate by reflecting on the insights that are brought to you in this book.”— Ann Morisy, Community Theologian and AuthorAs human beings we are continually seduced by the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD