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Abortion
Hagan, Marybeth T
Books > Theology > Social Issues
This provocative book tackles the abortion controversy including issues like "parental loss from a mother's perspective." The book incorporates the author's personal experience that brought her to a clear moral awareness and to a desire to share her perspective on the subject. It also responds to many popular pro-abortion arguments in a sensitively honest and compelling manner without judging anyone.
This work provides excellent points to ponder and examples from modern-day living for those still struggling over the many issues around abortion in our society today.
9780232526547
After McDonaldization: Mission, Ministry & Christian...
Drane, John
Books > Theology > Social Issues
The author presents the case for a reinvigorated style of ministry and asks what it means to be Christian in a post Christendom context. Index. 166pp
9780809145027
All Your Waves Swept Over Me
De Flon, Nancy Marie
Books > Theology > Social Issues
Reflections from nine authors, through the lens of each person's discipline or specialty, on the search for God's role in natural disasters.
1570756252
American Cultural Baggage
Nussbaum, Stan
Books > Theology > Social Issues
An outside-in look at American cultural peculiarities that helps Americans see ourselves as others see us and vice versa.
American Cultural Baggage lets both Americans and the rest of the world in on things most Americans don t know about themselves and their values and how those things are perceived by others. Americans will learn of the impression they make while others will gain insight into the curious tribal values of Americans.
9780884899440
An Introduction to Health Care Ethics
Various
Books > Theology > Social Issues
An ideal introduction to health care ethics for students who are unfamiliar with the subject area. Author-ethicists Michael Panicola, David Belde, John Paul Slosar, and Mark Repenshek have crafted a text grounded in rich theological and philosophical traditions and presented in an engaging manner. This text provides students with an understanding of the foundational aspects of health care ethics and leads them into a discussion of contemporary issues through the use of timely and challenging case studies. A unique focus on discernment and decision making brings the material to life for students.
9780814657102
Being About Borders: Christian Anthropology of ....
Saracino, Michele
Books > Theology > Social Issues
Bringing together the latest insights from constructive theology, contemporary continental theory, and trauma studies, Michele Saracino argues that, in the post 9/11 era, Christians are obligated now more than ever to be vigilant about difference, to be attentive to the emotional dissonance that encountering others incites, and to acknowledge it before border disputes escalate into violence. For Saracino, we are caught in the middle at porous borders, at in-between spaces, which cause consternation, fear, anger, and even rage. By embracing these conflicting emotions, she claims that Christians can honor the person and work of Jesus Christ and the mystery of the Incarnation, and perhaps become living memorials to those who have suffered trauma all in the name of their being different.
9780232527919
Bible and Ecology: Rediscovering the Community of...
Bauckham, Richard
Books > Theology > Social Issues
How should Christians read the Bible in an age of ecological disaster?
In this well-argued and timely book, Bauckham considers the relationship of humans to the rest of creation. He argues that there is much more to the Bibles understanding of this relationship than the mandate of human dominion given in Genesis 1, which has too often been used as a justification for domination and exploitation of the earths resources. He also critiques the notion of stewardship as being on the one hand presumptuous, and on the other too general a term to explain our key responsibilities in caring for the earth.
In countering this, he considers other biblical perspectives, including the book of Job, the Psalms and the Gospels, and re-evaluates the biblical tradition of dominion, in favour of a community of creation. With its clear analysis and thought-provoking conclusions, The Bible and Ecology, is an essential read for anyone interested in a biblically grounded approach to ecology.
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Bible, Church And Homosexuality, The
Coulton, Nicholas (Ed)
Books > Theology > Social Issues
Challenges the theology implicit in much evangelical and Catholic teaching, and exemplified by the film The Passion of the Christ. Contributors include James Alison, Simon Barrow, Jonathan Bartley, Steve Chalke, Giles Fraser, Kathy Galloway, Stuart Murray, Ched Myers, Michael Northcott, Anne Richards, Kevin Scully, Vic Theissen, and J Denny Weaver.
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Blair's Britain
Chapman, Mark
Books > Theology > Social Issues
The radicalism of 'Blair's Britain' will startle readers of every persuasion, and help to re-invigorate political debate amongst Christians. Mark Chapman analyses the transformation of British politics since the election of Tony Blair as prime minister in May 1997, raising questions about the role of the state and much more.
9780884899594
Catholic Ethics In Todays World
Zalot, Jozef D
Books > Theology > Social Issues
An accesible and engaging resource on how the Church approaches many of the social, sexual and medical challenges of today. Index. Chapter end notes. 277pages.
0809143151
Catholic Worker Movement, The
Zwick, Mark And Louise
Books > Theology > Social Issues
This book is essential reading for understanding the legacy behind the Catholic Worker Movement. The founders of the movement, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin met during the Great Depression in 1932. Their collaboration sparked something in the Church that has been both an inspiration and a reproach to American Catholicism. Dorothy Day is already a cultural icon. Once maligned, she is now being considered for sainthood. From a bohemian circle that included Eugene O'Neil to her controversial labor politics to the founding of the Catholic Worker Movement, she lived out a civil rights pacifism with a spirituality that took radical message of the Gospel to heart. Peter Maurin has been less celebrated but was equally important to the movement that embraced and uplifted the poor among us. Dorothy Day said he was, "a genius, a saint, an agitator, a writer, a lecturer, a poor man and a shabby tramp."
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Child, Victim, Soldier: The Loss of Innocence in Uganda
Dunson, Donald
Books > Theology > Social Issues
Sunday Obote was only seven when he was kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group in northern Uganda. His life abruptly changed from peaceful village life, where he fished and hunted with his friends, to the savagery of the LRA. Sunday was turned into a child soldier trained to kill on demand, even killing other children.
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Church On Edge
Thomson, John B
Books > Theology > Social Issues
There was a time when the church was at the centre of society: church leaders spoke & world leaders quaked. Those days are gone: the church has largely been sidelined & church leaders who dare to speak out on political issues are as likely to be ruled offside as listened to.
Perhaps rather than occupy centre stage the church should be working in the wings. This book is an exploration of the marginalization of church in society from an author whose life has been largely "spent sitting on the margins" (Introduction, p.vii): an early childhood in Uganda, an unsettled period of moving around England & Scotland with his family, entering Anglican ministry via suburban Sheffield, then back to Africa, teaching in a South African theological seminary at the end of the apartheid era. Returning again to the UK he worked as a parish priest in inner city Doncaster, a move from a multicultural, pluralistic society to a monochromatic English working class community.
9781856076906
Climate and Christ: A Prophetic Alternative
Echlin, Edward P.
Books > Theology > Social Issues
Climate and Christ describes what climate change is and how it happens, and suggests ways in which ordinary people can help to mitigate it. It also describes the process of evolution, and proposes that Christian ecology must henceforth integrate evolution. a chapter on Jesus Christ discusses Jesus’ own ecology, from birth to resurrection, including the ‘agrarian’ Jewish ethos which he inherited and lived in his own alternative itinerant lifestyle, preparing and preaching the kingdom. A final chapter makes suggestions for our own ‘prophetic alternative’ lifestyles inspired by Christ. This includes the principles of local sustainability, and an agrarian economics not predicated on everlasting ‘growth’, because we have reached the end of earth’s biocapacity. We henceforth need alternative lifestyles of quality, earth care, and sharing.
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Climate Change
McDonagh, Sean
Books > Theology > Social Issues
In January 2006 three politicians, from different parts of the world, acknowledged that the consequences of global warming could be much worse than previously thought. In his address on Australia Day 2006 the Governor-General, Michael Jeffery, warned Australians that, 'one of the most daunting environmental challenges is global warming'. Former President Bill Clinton told the Davos World Economic Forum in Switzerland that climate change was the most pressing threat which we now face. 'It has the power to end the march of civilisation as we know it.' The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in a preface in the book entitled Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, wrote that, 'it is clear from the work presented here that the risks of climate change may well be greater than we thought'.
In this book, Seán McDonagh starts by describing how the threat of climate change comes about and shows the consequences of global warming. He then examines various responses to global warming .......
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Cost Of Certainty
Young, Jeremy
Books > Theology > Social Issues
This book critically explores the Christian teaching of God's unconditional love. The author argues for the recovery of a spirituality of uncertainty and unconditional love as a basis for a renewal of contemporary Christian faith and practice.
9781901949629
Defending Christian Zionism
Pawson, David
Books > Theology > Social Issues
Zionism is a comparatively recent word, coined to describe the return of the Jews to the land of their ancestors and the re-establishment of the nation-state of Israel, with Jerusalem (Zion) as their capital.
A Zionist is one who takes part in this or supports those who do. There are Jewish Zionists and Christian Zionists. There are also Jewish anti-Zionists and Christian anti-Zionists. This book is written with the last mentioned group in mind.
* Has God brought the Jewish people back to Palestine?
* How can both Jews and Christians be God s chosen people?
* How many covenants are there in the Bible?
* Do all Christian Zionists accept dispensational teaching?
* Does the God of Israel ever change his promises?
These are some of the questions that must be faced in the light of current attacks on Christian Zionism by some evangelical writers.
9780232527445
Doing God : Religion & Public Policy in Brown's Britain
Chapman, Mark
Books > Theology > Social Issues
Mark D. Chapman, attacks the Labour government's vague thinking about 'community' & 'Britishness' & shows how for several years church leaders have colluded with failed approaches to pluralism, multi-culturalism & diversity. In this provocative essay Chapman argues for a completely new approach. Instead of promoting nebulous ideas such as 'community cohesion' the churches should demand social policies that will re-invigorate society at the grass roots level through the concrete redistribution of wealth coupled with radical steps to free local government as far as possible from centralised control. Communities, Chapman insists, cohere through coming together for specific ends. Drawing on the political thought of Rowan Williams, he argues for a pluralism rooted in the pragmatic need to make decisions at the local level.
9780899421315
Ending Abortion, Not Just Fighting It
Pavone, Fr Frank A
Books > Theology > Social Issues
In a collection of stirring and informative pro-life essays, the author convincingly portrays the negative ramifications that the abuse of freedom and the right to choose have unleashed on our society since abortion was legalized. Father Pavone insists that people of goodwill can end the scourge of abortion and restore the right of life for those who cannot speak for themselves.
