Religious Freedom and Contractual Ethics in a Democratic Society
The American justice system was founded on the idea of "majority-rule," but in a democracy this is achievable only if the majority has the interests of the whole at heart. As a solution, W. Royce Clark formulates a non-majoritarian ethic that would represent not just the interests of white Christian men, but all citizens.
This study examines Chaplain G. A. Studdert Kennedy, a British chaplain during World War I. The author analyzes Kennedy's poetry, prose, and postwar activities and the impact of moral injury on a combat veteran through the lens of contemporary psychological research.
Soul food has played a critical role in preserving Black history, community, and culinary genius. It is also a response to--and marker of--centuries of food injustice. Given the harm that our food production system inflicts upon Black people, what should soul food look like today? Christopher Carter's answer to that question merges a history of ......
This book focuses on the urgent need for a collaborative groundswell to push for justice and positive social change against a range of social evils. Valerie A. Miles-Tribble urges faith leaders and congregants to be prophetic change agents active in public justice witness with interreligious and activist networks.
Reach without Grasping examines the robust engagement with classical Greek and Roman literatures, themes, and genres in the works of Anne Carson, who explores as many and as diverse a range of genre choices as the classical authors from whom she has drawn so richly throughout her enormously creative body of work.
The Basics of Christian Resistance, an English translation of Bijbels AB
Biblical ABCs is a theological resistance primer. Written illegally under Nazi occupation by Dutch pastor and theologian Kornelis Heiko (K.H.) Miskotte, it provides basic biblical coordinates for Christians seeking to live bold and faithful lives in times of crisis, alienation, and alternative facts.
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 ......
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 this book, Emily Beth Hill utilizes Martin Luther's theology of the Word to develop a theology of marketing to help the church address pressing questions in a market-driven world. Hill demonstrates that only the proclamation of the gospel can liberate human beings in a consumer society.
