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  • The Church in the Public

    A Politics of Engagement for a Cruel and Indifferent Age

    by Ilsup Ahn ...
    How should the church relate to the public sphere? The body politic? The state? The economic order? The natural world? For too many Christians and churches, being "in the world but not of it" has resulted in either a theocratic impulse to seize the reins of secular power or a quietistic retreat from the world and its material concerns. The Church in the Public shows how this dualism has corrupted ... Read more

    $22.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Religious Ethics and Migration

    Doing Justice to Undocumented Workers

    by Ilsup Ahn ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    What does it mean to provide justice for undocumented workers who have been living among us without proper legal documentation? How can we do justice to the undocumented migrants who have been doing the low-skilled, low-paid jobs unwanted by citizens? Why should we even try to do justice for people who violate the laws of the society?Religious Ethics and Migration: Doing Justice to Undocumented ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Just Debt

    Theology, Ethics, and Neoliberalism

    by Ilsup Ahn ...
    Debt--personal, corporate, governmental--is so pervasive in contemporary economies, with its moralistic logic nearly unquestioned. Debt’s necessity renders it morally neutral, absolving it of the dehumanizing effect it brings in unbridled financialization. In Just Debt Ilsup Ahn explores ethical implications of the practice of debt. By placing debt in the context of anthropology, philosophy, ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Position and Responsibility

    Jürgen Habermas, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Co-Reconstruction of the Positional Imperative

    by Ilsup Ahn ...
    Series Book 118 - Princeton Theological Monograph Series
    What is the moral criterion for those who hold power positions and authority in governments, corporations, and institutions? Ahn answers this question by presenting the concept of the positional imperative. The positional imperative is an executive moral norm for those who hold power positions in political and economic organizations. By critically integrating the Neo-Kantian reconstructionism of ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Asian American Christian Ethics

    Voices, Methods, Issues

    Edited by Grace Y. Kao, Ilsup Ahn ...
    This groundbreaking volume presents the collective work of twelve Christian ethicists of Asian descent in the U.S. who map the new and burgeoning field of study located at the juncture of Christian ethics and Asian American studies. Led by Grace Kao and Ilsup Ahn, these scholars identify the purposes and chart the contours of what constitutes a distinctly Asian American Christian ethical approach ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • War and the American Difference

    Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity

    by Stanley Hauerwas ...
    How are American identity and America's presence in the world shaped by war, and what does God have to do with it? Esteemed theologian Stanley Hauerwas helps readers reflect theologically on war, church, justice, and nonviolence in this compelling volume, exploring issues such as how America depends on war for its identity, how war affects the soul of a nation, the sacrifices that war entails, and ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Rethinking Christ and Culture

    A Post-Christendom Perspective

    by Craig A. Carter ...
    In 1951, theologian H. Richard Niebuhr published Christ and Culture, a hugely influential book that set the agenda for the church and cultural engagement for the next several decades. But Niebuhr's model was devised in and for a predominantly Christian cultural setting. How do we best understand the church and its writers in a world that is less and less Christian? Craig Carter critiques Niebuhr's ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Reviving Evangelical Ethics

    The Promises and Pitfalls of Classic Models of Morality

    by Wyndy Reuschling ...
    Classic theories of Aristotle, Kant, and Mill have influenced Christian thought in morality and ethics for centuries. But they can go only so far, Wyndy Corbin Reuschling writes in Reviving Evangelical Ethics. While the philosophers' approach to three key elements--virtue, duty, and utility--have been used widely in forming ethical and moral practices, Corbin Reuschling sees spiritual danger in ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics

    Edited by Assistant Professor Christian Scharen, Assistant Professor Aana Marie Vigen ...
    This book is a primary resource in the new and growing field of Christian Ethnography. In response to a variety of critical intellectual currents (post-colonial, post-modern, and post-liberal), scholars in Christian theology and ethics are increasingly taking up the tools of ethnography as a means to ask fundamental moral questions and to make more compelling and credible moral claims. Privileging ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Theonomics

    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 USD

  • Mainstreaming Torture

    Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States

    by Rebecca Gordon ...
    The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in America had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible? Within days, some began to suggest that, in these new circumstances, the new answer was "yes." Rebecca Gordon argues that September 11 did not, as some have said, "change everything," and that institutionalized state torture remains ... Read more

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  • Bonhoeffer the Assassin?

    Challenging the Myth, Recovering His Call to Peacemaking

    by Mark Nation, Anthony Siegrist, Daniel Umbel ...
    Most of us think we know the moving story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life--a pacifist pastor turns anti-Hitler conspirator due to horrors encountered during World War II--but does the evidence really support this prevailing view? This pioneering work carefully examines the biographical and textual evidence and finds no support for the theory that Bonhoeffer abandoned his ethic of discipleship and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD