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  • Disrupting Stories and Images of the Church

    Honoring Voices with Lived Experience of Disability

    Series series Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care
    How might someone's disability shape not only their view of God, but of the church? Turning to the lived experiences of people with disabilities and caregivers for children with disabilities, this book provides theological reflections on their images of the church. Attuning to these often ignored voices provides thought-provoking insights into what the church and other religious communities can do ... Read more

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  • Vulnerable Communion

    A Theology of Disability and Hospitality

    As parents of a son with disabilities, Thomas E. Reynolds and his wife know what it's like to be misunderstood by a church community. In Vulnerable Communion, Reynolds draws upon that personal experience and a diverse body of literature to empower churches and individuals to foster deeper hospitality toward persons with disabilities.Reynolds argues that the Christian story is one of strength ... Read more

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  • René Girard and Creative Mimesis

    For half a century René Girard’s theories of mimetic desire and scapegoating have captivated the imagination of thinkers and doers in many fields as an incisive look into the human condition, particularly the roots of violence. In a 1993 interview with Rebecca Adams, he highlighted the positive dimensions of mimetic phenomena without expanding on what they might be. Now, two decades later, this ... Read more

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  • Reviving Evangelical Ethics

    The Promises and Pitfalls of Classic Models of Morality

    Classic theories of Aristotle, Kant, and Mill have influenced Christian thought in morality and ethics for centuries. But they can go only so far, Wyndy Corbin Reuschling writes in Reviving Evangelical Ethics. While the philosophers' approach to three key elements--virtue, duty, and utility--have been used widely in forming ethical and moral practices, Corbin Reuschling sees spiritual danger in ... Read more

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  • Through My Enemy's Eyes

    Envisioning Reconciliation in Israel-Palestine

    This book addresses the universal theological dimension of reconciliation in the context of the Israeli Messianic Jewish and Palestinian Christian divide. Palestinian Christians and Israeli Messianic Jews share a belief in Jesus as the son of God and Messiah. Often, though, that is all they have in common. This remarkable book, written in collaboration by a local Palestinian Christian and ... Read more

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  • Corporal Punishment in the Bible

    A Redemptive-Movement Hermeneutic for Troubling Texts

    William Webb confronts those often avoided biblical passages that call for the corporal punishment of children, slaves and wrongdoers. How should we understand and apply them today? Are we obligated to replicate those injunctions today? Or does the proper interpretation of them point in a different direction? Webb notes that most of the Christian church is at best inconsistent in its application ... Read more

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  • The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes

    Biblical Studies and Ethics for Real Life

    The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes are often considered significant texts for the Christian moral life. However, most interpretations of these passages either focus on the original meaning of the text or how the texts should impact ordinary living today.In The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan brings together biblical studies and Christian ethics to look at these ... Read more

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  • Stopping the Traffick

    A Christian Response to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking

    Series series Regnum Studies in Mission
    Stop the Traffick? How do we even begin addressing such an important – and yet overwhelming – task? If you are a practitioner striving to assist victims or a faith-based organization wondering how to get involved you may be wrestling with questions like: How should we go about working with exploited people? Where should we focus our response? How do we deal with the challenges? This cutting-edge ... Read more

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  • Loving Later Life

    An Ethics of Aging

    Is loving later life possible? In our youth-obsessed culture, nobody enjoys growing old. We normally fear our own aging and generally do not love old people -- they remind us that death is inescapable, the body frail, and social status transitory. In Loving Later Life Frits de Lange shows how an ethics of love can acknowledge and overcome this fear of aging and change our attitude toward the ... Read more

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  • Aquinas Ethicus: The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas, Vol. 2

    Translated by Joseph Rickaby ...
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  • 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

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