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Moral Issues and Christian Responses /
"This popular anthology for the study of Christian ethics, now in its eighth edition, has been a mainstay of undergraduate courses for nearly thirty years. Shannon and Patricia Jung provide an introduction to contemporary moral issues from decidedly, yet diverse, Christian moral perspectives. T...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | 8th ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: A primer on doing ethics
- Part 1. What makes ethics Christian? Biblical authority / Walter Brueggemann
- The Bible in transit / Phyllis Trible
- A death to celebrate? : the just-war tradition and the killing of Osama Bin Laden / Ronald Osborn
- How I learned to stop worrying and love the brain / David A. Hogue
- "Wading through many sorrows" : toward a theology of suffering in Womanist perspective / M. Shawn Copeland
- The eclipse of love for God / Edward Collins Vacek
- Mujerista discourse : a platform for Latinas' subjugated knowledge / Ada María Isasi-Díaz
- "Rights and wrongs" : an interview with Nicholas Wolterstorff
- The unholy trinity of consumerism / Skye Jethani
- Imitating God : nickel mines, forgiveness, and Yoder / Donald B. Kraybill
- Blame versus forgiveness / John Kekes
- Lessons in mercy : justice and reconciliation in the aftermath of atrocities / Daniel Philpott
- Letting go : the final miracle of forgiveness / Miroslav Volf
- Part 2. Sexual ethics. The body's grace / Rowan Williams
- Marriage prep and double standards : the hookup culture's damaging effects / Kari-Shane Davis Zimmerman
- Good sex : its meaning and morals / Dennis Hollinger
- Love your enemy : sex, power, and Christain ethics / Karen Lebacqz
- Sexual slavery on Main Street / Elissa Cooper
- A betrothal proposal / Michael G. Lawler and Gail S. Risch
- Domestic abuse / Judith Ewing
- No good divorce : the children's perspective : an interview with Elizabeth Marquardt
- What God has joined / David Instone-Brewer
- Role play / Patti Ricotta
- Advice and consent : monogamy in the age of Dan Savage / Benjamin J. Dueholm
- Part 3. Prejudice and discrimination. Awaiting the redemption of our bodies / Richard B. Hays
- Heterosexism and the interpretation of Romans 1:18-32 / Dale B. Martin
- Bearing better witness / Ron Sider
- Blessing same-sex marriages / Patricia Beattie Jung
- Obama and race in America : what's changed? / Gerald Early [and others]
- Race matters / Cornel West
- Whiteness : the structure of institutional racism / Elaine A. Robinson
- Part 4. Issues of national and global priority. Imagining the immigrant : why legality must give way to humanity / John J. Savant
- Creating a sacred space : an Iglesia evangelica response to global homelessness / Loida I. Martell-Otero
- A Judeo-Christian approach to "comprehensive" immigration reform / Carol M. Swain
- Poisoning the well : a review of Mark Hertsgaard's Hot : living through the next 50 years on earth / Wen Stephenson
- Toward an ethic of ecojustice / James B. Martin-Schramm
- The challenge of biocentrism / Thomas Sieger Derr
- An earth-honoring faith / Larry Rasmussen
- When "knowledge" is simply "all wet" and "ignorance is bliss"! : Christian environmental ethics meets science in Louisiana's wetlands / Dawn M. Nothwehr.
- Part 5. Economic justice. Pay attention to the birds / Ched Myers
- Just a little bit more : greed and the malling of our souls / Robert C. Roberts
- Nickel and dimed : a review of Bethany Moreton's To serve God and Wal-Mart : the making of Christian free enterprise / Robert Frank
- When generosity is not enough / Ellen T. Charry
- Fighting poverty to build peace / Howard J. Hubbard
- Just deserts : beyond the free market / Kent A. Van Til
- When is self-interest moral? : a gap in Catholic social teaching / Daniel K. Finn
- Christian theology and development / Gnana Robinson
- Shopping for justice : the trouble with good intentions / Charles M. North and Bob Smietana
- The dread cancer of stinginess / John Rowell
- Still hungry : a review of Dambisa Moyo's Dead aid : a better way for Africa / Sandra F. Joireman
- Part 6. Issues of life and death. Theology and morality of procreative choice / Beverly Wildung Harrison with Shirley Cloyes
- Abortion and the sexual agenda / Sidney Callahan
- Fetal status : sources and implications / Thomas A. Shannon
- What actually works? : the right supports can reduce abortion rates / Glen Stassen
- Still dying badly : a Christian critique / Allen Verhey
- Assisted suicide : do we own our bodies? /Jarmo Tarkki
- The case for physician-assisted suicide? / James F. Keenan
- A horrific crime : but is execution the answer? / Cathleen Kaveny
- Catholicism and capital punishment / Cardinal Avery Dulles
- Crime and sacrifice / Tobias Winright
- Did 9/11 make us morally "better"? / Miroslav Volf
- When the shooting stops : criteria for a just peace / Mark J. Allman and Tobias L. Winright
- Courageous nonviolence / Ron Sider
- Against the new Utopianism / Jean Bethke Elshtain.