Through the rich stories of eight participants, the author explores the psychological, spiritual, and ritual dimensions of religious trauma among queer people and offers key recommendations for congregations and pastoral caregivers that seek to welcome those who have experienced religious trauma.
This book is a comprehensive semantic analysis of the lexical roots and serve for the interpretation of the roots in both versions of the Decalogue (Exod 20:17 and Deut 5:21) to resolve questions concerning the meaning of the desire in Tenth Commandment.
The pursuit of wilderness preservation is at odds with a commitment to animal welfare. Wilderness, Morality, and Value charts a way forward by clarifying the meaning of wilderness, investigating the fundamental value of wilderness itself, and exploring the implications of a religio-spiritual valuation of wilderness.
Moral Psychology and the Language of Death in Romans 5-8
This study argues that in Romans 5-8, the present plight of "death" refers to a state of moral bondage in which a person's will is dominated by passions. It is death of this sort, rather than human mortality or a "cosmic power," that entered the world through Adam.
Contemporary philosophy is interested in questions of luck and moral responsibility. Christian theology is largely unconcerned with luck because of its understanding of the creatureliness of the will. This understanding is rooted in story of the primal sin the narrative about how the first good creature chose wrongly. When considered ......
The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America
Necropolitics: The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America explores the pernicious and persistent presence of mass incarceration in American public life. Christophe D. Ringer argues that mass incarceration persists largely because the othering and criminalization of Black people in times of crisis is a significant part of the religious ......
Kathleen McManus employs Edward Schillebeeckx's method of negative contrast experience to explore how the global suffering of the marginalized, particularly women, reveals God's vulnerable rule, posing an ethical imperative for the church.
Overcoming the Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asyl
This book combines interviews of ethnically diverse clergy from various Christian traditions and their attitudes regarding forced migration at the U.S.-Mexico border with case studies and church history to argue for a compassionate response to refugees seeking asylum that resists racism and exclusion.
This book brings together scholars from various disciplines to think alongside Black Mirror with resources from the Christian tradition, discerning what the show and theology can teach us about how to live faithfully in a technocratic age.
