Exploring the history of the cardinal virtues from patristic times to the late fourteenth century, this book offers a comprehensive view of the development of moral debate in the Latin Middle Ages.
Have you lost your grip? A little bit of wisdom will help you retain the traction needed to keep moving along life's worn and often rocky path. Lillian McFerran's Getting a Grip on God is an assemblage of such wisdom from her own life experiences as well as the knowledge and passion of a number of sages and contemporary authors. Inside you'll find essays on 150 topics that can be helpful for sermons, retreats, discussions, devotions, or meditations. Over 300 quotes illuminate the subjects with clarity, irony, and humor. Getting a Grip on God is a compendium of the threads of reason and influence that are applicable to everyday life, and though produced through a prism of the author's Lutheran background, the text awakens a reverence for the spirit and fortitude inherent in mankind. Although written for personal clarification, insight, and understanding, the author feels the conveyed wisdom relates to parenting, maturity, family life, and community involvement. Getting a Grip on God provides biblical and liturgical references for each topic, making it an easy-to-read, educational tool. It reminds us eloquently and convincingly of the sound, practical sense found in manners, friendship, sensibility, and compassion. Get back to your roots and refocus your grip on life!
The Political Crisis and Christian Ethics addresses themes in political philosophy in the context of a crisis in democracy after the denial of the 2020 election by the Republican candidate for president. The refusal to accept the results of the election divided the electorate and drove the president’s followers to fail in their attempted coup attempt in January of 2020. Democracy is defended in Reinhold Niebuhr’s writing on politics and in Barack Obama’s use of the theologian’s thought. It is developed further in the political theory of Paul Tillich. The themes of just peacemaking are reviewed in Paul Tillich’s critique of John Foster Dulles’ work and in the author’s critique of just peacemaking in the work of Glen Stassen. Domestically the issues of race, inequality, ecology, and healthcare are addressed from the perspective of prophetic realism. The book concludes in terms of Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy of education and religion and a vision of the good president. In summary, The Political Crisis and Christian Ethics is a volume of American, Christian political theory in a period of overcoming the trauma of 2016 with Christian ethics and political philosophy.