The twenty-first century has seen energy passing between religious and political worldviews, kicking up dust around the identity- and conviction-based fault lines in American society. While many evangelical Christians have developed and deployed a "worldview theory" to describe and locate themselves within the world's ideological strife, Jacob ......
The twenty-first century has seen energy passing between religious and political worldviews, kicking up dust around the identity- and conviction-based fault lines in American society. While many evangelical Christians have developed and deployed a "worldview theory" to describe and locate themselves within the world's ideological strife, Jacob ......
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.
What if wilderness is bad for wildlife? This question motivates the philosophical investigation in Wilderness, Morality, and Value. Environmentalists aim to protect wilderness, and for good reasons, but wilderness entails unremittent, incalculable suffering for its non-human habitants. Given that it will become increasingly possible to augment ......
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.
In Wealth, Virtue, and Moral Luck, Kate Ward addresses inequality from the perspective of Christian virtue ethics, arguing that our individual life circumstances affect our ability to pursue virtue and showing how Christians can respond to create a world where it is easier for people to be virtuous.
In Wealth, Virtue, and Moral Luck, Kate Ward addresses inequality from the perspective of Christian virtue ethics, arguing that our individual life circumstances affect our ability to pursue virtue and showing how Christians can respond to create a world where it is easier for people to be virtuous.
From the concrete experience of war, Michael S. Yandell constructs a phenomenology of "negative revelation" in which false or distorted claims of goodness and justice disintegrate and become meaningless, adding depth to the term moral injury.
Moral Progress and Spiritual Growth with the Apostle Paul
J. Paul Sampley explores how Paul instructed the followers who trekked behind him in "the upward call of God in Christ Jesus," (Phil. 3:14). Sampley writes particularly for readers today who seek insight into the spiritual and moral life but are perplexed by the apostle.
