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Spirit in the Cities: Searching for Soul in the Urban Landscape

In recent decades economic dislocation, immigration, new architecture, and other forces have transformed the physical, social, and even religious landscape of...

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The Pulse of Creation: God and the Transformation of the World

Paul Sponheim's theme is transformation?personal, social, cultural, and global. He addresses the violence, environmental destruction, and lost sense of...

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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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Plantations and Death Camps: Religion, Ideology, and Human Dignity

Historical theologian Beverly Mitchell probes some of the most egregious assaults on humans in the modern era to divine not only the root of racial and ethnic...

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Slavery as Moral Problem: In the Early Church and Today

Recent US and UN reports document the startling incidence of human trafficking in the world today. Yet the situation is hardly new. The fact that some early...

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Spirit and the Politics of Disablement

In this remarkable and incisive work, Sharon Betcher analyzes our world and God's embodied presence in the light of her own disability and the insight it...

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Toward a Christian Political Ethics

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Transforming Atonement: A Political Theology of the Cross

Many books on the Christian doctrine of atonement have been published in recent years. Some point out the difficulties of traditional atonement theories; others...

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A Case for Character: Towards a Lutheran Virtue Ethics

Contemporary Lutheranism has struggled with the appropriate place of morality and character formation, as these pursuits often have been perceived as being at odds with the central Christian doctrine of justification. A Case for Character explores this problem.

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Augustine on War and Military Service

Philip Wynn uncovers a nuanced story of Augustine's thoughts on war and military service, and gives us a more complete and complex picture of this important topic.

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Before Nature: A Christian Spirituality

Here Santmire explores the pursuit of a theology bound up with nature and its condition, especially the fragility and fervent expectation of nature's redemption.

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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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Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint

In this timely book, Sallie McFague recalls her readers to the practices of restraint.

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Christian Economic Ethics: History and Implications

Daniel Finn reviews insights provided by a large number of texts on economic ethics, from the Bible and the early church, to the Middle Ages and the Protestant Reformation, to treatments of the subject in the last century.

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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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Christian Social Teachings: A Reader in Christian Social Ethics from the Bible to the Present, Second Edition

No question has been as persistently nettling as the proper relationship of Christians and the Christian church to political power, and the results...

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Comparative Religious Ethics: Everyday Decisions for Our Everyday Lives

Gudorf's work focuses on everyday issues while drawing out ethical implications of each and demonstrating how different religious traditions prescribe rules for action.

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Ethics That Matters: African, Caribbean, and African American Sources

In light of globalization, ongoing issues of race, gender, and class, and the rapidly changing roles of institutions, this volume asserts that Christian social...

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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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Making Love Just: Sexual Ethics for Perplexing Times

These days sexual sin is far less about sex and far more about the misuse of power and exploitation of vulnerability. It's time to redraw the ethical map...

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