New Testament Micro-Ethics
New Testament Micro-Ethics

Author: Raymond Kemp Anderson

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2018-10-09

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1532647387

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Anderson shows how Early Christians’ faith took root in a multicultural world just as diverse and conflicted as our own. Their basic attitude turns out to have been one of astounding freedom—not a cultus of rules, but a matter of whole-hearted response; for they lived in conversation with the One whose love for all his wayward creatures is utterly tenacious. We find ourselves continually surprised by an insistent grace that treasures all persons equally while exposing and deposing our evil. Such faith still evokes basic confidence; and we find ourselves, ever again moved by gratitude and trusting each others’ Christ-emboldened freedom. If we are embraced by grace, our becoming “great again” can only mean unlimited concern for all and free-flowing interactive service. The playful work ethic that ensues holds promise for our politically splintered post-industrial age. The New Testament’s seed-like ethical genotype still unfolds into a secure, all-embracing, and mutually supportive “sabbatic” life stance. What could be more relevant for our future in conflicted times?

The Ethical Vision of the Bible
The Ethical Vision of the Bible

Author: Peter W. Gosnell

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0830864792

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This introduction to the world of biblical ethics walks readers through the ethical teachings of key people and texts within the Bible. Instead of focusing on what the Bible says about various ethical issues, it emphasizes how the different parts of the Bible encourage its readers to think ethically about every issue.

Blessed Are Those Who Ask the Questions
Blessed Are Those Who Ask the Questions

Author: J. Goosby Smith

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2021-04-01

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1648024327

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Today’s organizational environment is characterized by high levels of cross-cultural, cross-national, and cross-religious communication, conflict, collaboration, and commerce. This environment produces myriad encounters between individuals who embrace different ideologies, religions and spiritual practices. As such, unanswered (and even unasked) questions about management, spirituality, and religion abound. This book, seeks to advance our understanding by asking the big questions. Blessed are Those Who Ask the Questions: What Should We be Asking About Management, Spirituality, and Religion in Organizations? is intended to be provocative in nature. Its chapters address novel ways that leadership, organizations, and organizational stakeholders mutually impact each other by their similarities and differences in religious, spiritual, and ideological traditions, cultures, and practices. Interdisciplinary in nature and firmly grounded in scholarly literature, this book identifies and maps out bold new trajectories for advancing the study of management spirituality, and religion (including but going far beyond Western, Christian conceptualizations of religion). Sometimes universal, sometimes quite specific, this volume identifies unexplored, underexplored, or unresolved issues in the field and proposes new streams of research. Diverse conceptual, empirical, theoretical, and critical treatments that honor a variety of inquiry styles and research methods push the boundaries of MSR research.

Bloody, Brutal, and Barbaric?
Bloody, Brutal, and Barbaric?

Author: William J. Webb

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2019-12-03

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 0830870733

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Christians cannot ignore the intersection of religion and violence. In our own Scriptures, war texts that appear to approve of genocidal killings and war rape raise hard questions about biblical ethics and the character of God. Have we missed something in our traditional readings? Identifying a spectrum of views on biblical war texts, Webb and Oeste pursue a middle path using a hermeneutic of incremental, redemptive-movement ethics.

Catholic Bioethics and Social Justice
Catholic Bioethics and Social Justice

Author: M. Therese Lysaught

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2018-11-16

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 0814684793

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Catholic health care is one of the key places where the church lives Catholic social teaching (CST). Yet the individualistic methodology of Catholic bioethics inherited from the manualist tradition has yet to incorporate this critical component of the Catholic moral tradition. Informed by the places where Catholic health care intersects with the diverse societal injustices embodied in the patients it encounters, this book brings the lens of CST to bear on Catholic health care, illuminating a new spectrum of ethical issues and practical recommendations from social determinants of health, immigration, diversity and disparities, behavioral health, gender-questioning patients, and environmental and global health issues.

The Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx Volume 7
The Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx Volume 7

Author: Edward Schillebeeckx

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 1039

ISBN-13: 0567299988

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Christ. The Christian Experience in the Modern World focuses on the question of salvation for all people. Using seven 'anthropological constants', Schillebeeckx innovatively shows the social and political relevance of faith. Inspired by liberation and feminist theologies, he puts strong emphasis on human experience and on the importance of examining church teaching in its historical context. This volume is a testimony of Schillebeeckx' ground breaking attempt to rethink doctrine in the light of the research on the historical Jesus. Instead of starting with Christianity's great creedal statements about Christ and the Trinity, he focuses on the subjective experience of the first generations of believers as expressed in the New Testament. This choice stirred considerable controversy and a Vatican investigation but inspired and still keeps to inspire readers in their personal approach to Christian faith.

Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as Literature and Culture
Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as Literature and Culture

Author: Roberta Sabbath

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009-09-30

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9047430964

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Contemporary sacred text scholarship has been stimulated by a number of intersecting trends: a surging interest in religion, sacred texts, and inspirational issues; burgeoning developments in and applications of literary theories; intensifying academic focus on diverse cultures whether for education or scholarship. Although much has been written individually about Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an, no collection combines an examination of all three. Sacred Tropes interweaves Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an essays. Contributors collectively and also often individually use mixed literary approaches instead of the older single theory strategy. Appropriate for classroom or research, the essays utilize a variety of literary theoretical lenses including environmental, cultural studies, gender, psychoanalytic, ideological, economic, historicism, law, and rhetorical criticisms through which to examine these sacred works.

A New Vision for Israel
A New Vision for Israel

Author: Scot McKnight

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780802842121

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The most important development in recent historical Jesus studies is the attempt to understand the ministry of Jesus in "political" terms. In calling the nation of Israel to repentance, Jesus served as a national prophet concerned with the salvation of Israel. Scot McKnight furthers this line of inquiry by showing how Jesus' teachings are to be understood in relation to his role as a political figure. McKnight looks closely at Jesus' teachings on God, the kingdom, and ethics, demonstrating in each case how Jesus' mission to restore Israel brings his teachings into a bold new light.

A Grammar of the Ethics of John
A Grammar of the Ethics of John

Author: Jan G. van der Watt

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 726

ISBN-13: 3161589424

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Jan G. van der Watt analyses in detail the ethics of John's letters against their respective socio-historical backgrounds. He then compares the ethics of the Gospel and Letters, showing that the basic core narrative overlaps in these writings, althoiugh some ethical matrial is applied in different ways to different situations. A rich ethical landscape is revealed, addressing issues like the importance ofinterpersonal relations, which results in co-operation through mutual love. The author shows that the focus in 1 John is pastoral, aiming at convincing the addressees not to be deceived by their schismatics but to strengthen their relationships with the eyewitness group. In 2 John, advice is given about visitors who threaten the church with false teachings, while 3 John deals with a conflict about receiving travelling missionaries. In both cases ethical guidelines are given which aim at protecting the group. -- Volume 2 Dust-Jactet Inside front Flap.