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  • Obligation as Freedom

    A Theology of Economic Responsibility

    by Albino Barrera ...
    Economic obligations grounded in Judeo-Christian thought do not restrict freedom but in fact deepen and expand it. He challenges the widely held secular intuition that duties constrain choice, showing instead that obligations enable flourishing communities, sustainable rights, functioning markets, and friendship with God. Drawing on the four sources of Christian reflection (Scripture, reason, ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Economic Ethics

    by Albino Barrera, Roy C. Amore ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    What do world and regional religions say about economic morality? The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Economic Ethics presents together for the first time the key tenets and teachings of numerous faiths on this subject. In doing so, it also compares the major religions in their positions on various social, business, and policy topics, such as consumerism, competition, ecology, and feminism. It ... Read more

    $163.99 CAD

  • Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics

    by Albino Barrera ...
    Series series New Studies in Christian Ethics
    We seek to be both loving and just. However, what do we do when love and justice present us with incompatible obligations? Can one be excessively just? Should one bend rules or even break the law for the sake of compassion? Alternatively, should one simply follow rules? Unjust beneficence or uncaring justice - which is the less problematic moral choice? Moral dilemmas arise when a person can ... Read more

    $106.99 CAD

  • Biblical Economic Ethics

    Sacred Scripture's Teachings on Economic Life

    by Albino Barrera ...
    Written in non-technical language accessible to non-specialist readers, this book is a theological synthesis of the findings of scripture scholars and ethicists on what the Bible teaches about economic life. It proposes a biblical theology of economic life that addresses three questions, namely:What do the individual books of Sacred Scripture say about proper economic conduct? How do these ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Catholic Missionaries and Their Work with the Poor

    Mitigating Market-Government Failure in Emerging Nations

    by Albino Barrera ...
    Series series Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations
    This book explores the vital role of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in compensating for the market’s and government’s inability to provide vital services. Its key theoretical contribution is the notion that poverty is the result of a triadic failure—when markets, government, and civil society become dysfunctional at the same time. Using data on Catholic missionaries’ development work, this study ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Market Complicity and Christian Ethics

    by Albino Barrera ...
    Series Book 31 - New Studies in Christian Ethics
    The marketplace is a remarkable social institution that has greatly extended our reach so shoppers in the West can now buy fresh-cut flowers, vegetables, and tropical fruits grown halfway across the globe even in the depths of winter. However, these expanded choices have also come with considerable moral responsibilities as our economic decisions can have far-reaching effects by either ennobling ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Reconnecting Economics with Virtue and Integrity

    by Andrew Lightbown, Peter Sills, Richard Backhouse, Nick Bion, Frank Canosa, Keith Croxton, Nick Fane, Alan Hargrave0, Rosie Harper1, Alan Wilson2 ...
    At a time when economics, banking and commerce are never out of the headlines, Theonomics asks if theology is capable of informing, shaping and penetrating all aspects of life, and especially economic life. Theonomics argues for the recovery of the classic virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude, justice and humility as animators of a lively and Godly economy.Six key principles are offered to ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions

    Edited by John R. Hinnells ...
    Comprehensive, informative and authoritative, The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions is compiled by a team of leading international scholars, and is the definitive guide to the religious belief systems and practices of the world today. This in-depth survey of active religions has now been fully updated to include modern developments and the most recent scholarship. It explains the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Divine Conspiracy Continued

    Fulfilling God's Kingdom on Earth

    by Dallas Willard, Gary Black Jr. ...
    Dallas Willard, the author of the bestselling spiritual classic, The Divine Conspiracy, now fulfills his revolutionary vision of how the kingdom of God is made real on earth in this sequel, the last book he was working on before his recent death.In The Divine Conspiracy, revered Christian philosopher and scholar Dallas Willard critiqued the church's obsession with "sin management" and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Asian Christian Ethics

    Evangelical Perspectives

    Edited by Aldrin M. Peñamora, Bernard K. Wong ...
    Series series Foundations in Asian Christian Thought
    Asian Christian Ethics provides an introduction for students to a range of key topics related to Christian ethics in Asia. Fifteen Christian scholars from across Asia and from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds demonstrate how to think theologically and contextually about key ethical issues, as well as describe best practices in Christian moral formation. Ideal for use as a companion textbook ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • An Other Kingdom

    Departing the Consumer Culture

    by Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight ...
    Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called a consumer culture.We think the free market ideology that surrounds us is true and inevitable and represents ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Flourishing

    Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World

    by Miroslav Volf, Tony Blair ...
    More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula, all the way to the inner longings of our hearts. Integral to both globalization and religions are compelling, overlapping, and sometimes competing ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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