Belief in the doctrine of Original Sin is firmly held by many Christians, but it turns out that it's not necessarily biblical. Further, argues Danielle Shroyer, it's bad for people and bad for the church. In Original Blessing, Shroyer shows not only how we got it wrong, but how we can put sin back in its rightful place.
On the Moral, Political, and Spiritual Meaning of Love
Understanding Friendship illustrates friendship as an expression of Christian love that can enrich one's life and be socially, culturally, and politically significant. The book examines what friendship is, how its distinctive moral status can be supported by multiple approaches to Christian ethics, and its part in Christian spirituality.
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.
New Calvinism, Religious Abuse, and the Experience of God
New Calvinism and the Victim investigates the difficult relationship between traumatic experiences, maximalist religious beliefs, and the experience of God. This project highlights the dynamic and conflictive interplay between the timeless realities of abuse, divine control, and the psychology of religious participation.
Daly uses the lens of virtue and vice to reimagine a Catholic ethics that can scrutinize the social forces that both affect our moral character and contribute to human well-being or suffering, creating an ethical framework for responding virtuously to the problems caused by global social systems.
A compelling analysis tying the work of Aquinas to contemporary literature on virtue
Despite heightened attention to virtue, contemporary philosophical and theological literature has failed to offer detailed analysis of how people attain and grow in the good habits we know as the virtues. Though popular ......
Many critiques of consumerism inadequately consider the complex interactions between individuals, their desires, and their social practices. Christine Darr provides an analysis of desire within consumer culture by integrating insights from moral theology and sociology and offers intellectual resources for more deliberate decision-making.
In this book, theologians and scholars of religion grapple with the political, philosophical, and ethical implications of a climate crisis provoked by one species, our own, serving its needs at the increasingly intolerable cost of all life on the planet.
Persons with disability make up at least 15 percent of the global population, yet disability is widely unacknowledged and unexplored in theology. Moreover, many people join this minority community in their lifetimes through compromises to their health due to aging or accident. However, too few people without immediate experience of persons with ......