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Author: Julia Ahlers
Publisher: Saint Mary's Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0884893871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Christian morality course designed to be part of the religion curriculum within a Catholic high school. The course focuses on character development.
Author: Julia Ahlers
Publisher: St Marys Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780884893882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does religion have to do with my life? How do I know right from wrong? The course Growing in Christian Morality offers a Christian vision for answering these questions. Decision-making, wise judgment, justice, wholeness, honesty, and respect are themes that this one-semester course makes real for tenth- and eleventh-grade students. The teaching manual supports the student text and includes numbered references to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, prayers, prayer services, review questions and answers, student activities, discussion questions, role-play situations, suggestions for interviews and guest speakers, student handouts, and much more.
Author: Kathleen Crawford Hodapp
Publisher: Saint Mary's Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 0884897117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does religion have to do with my life? How do I know right from wrong? Growing in Christian Morality offers a Christian vision for answering these questions. Decision making, wise judgment, justice, wholeness, honesty, and respect are themes that this one-semester course makes real for tenth-and eleventh-grade students. The full-color student text contains a variety of stories, cases, and quotes from young people that help students relate the concepts to their own experience. The readable, engaging text and the reflection activities and sidebars keep students interested in learning about Christian morality. The Student Casebook features 32 reallife experiences of people who have faced moral decisions. The Casebook Leader's Guide provides everything you need to lead a session.
Author: Timothy F. Sedgwick
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2008-11-01
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 159627204X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A book to enjoy and savour. . . . As a gentle and reverent depiction of whole practice of Anglican moral theology and practice, it is splendid.”—The Anglican Theological Review Written in a style accessible to non-specialists, this book provides teachers, pastors, counselors, and general readers with an ideal introduction to Christian ethics. It renews the topic of Christian ethics by showing readers that faithful moral living is achieved through the daily practices of grace and godliness. The author first explores the foundations of Christian ethics as seen by both Catholics and Protestants, and then develops a constructive view of morality as a way of life. Taking into account the central themes of Christian ethics, he shows that effective piety is built on spiritual disciplines that deepen our experience of God: prayer, worship, self-examination, simplicity, and acts of hospitality.
Author: Bruce C. Birch
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2018-05-01
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1451438540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarth is changing in ways it hasn't for hundreds of thousands of years. At the same time, Christianity is breaking away from its millennium-long geographical and cultural center in the Euro-West. Its growth is in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, primarily in Pentecostal, evangelical, and independent churches. These dramatically changed planetary and ecclesial landscapes have led many to conclude that we need a new way of thinking about our collective existence: who are we and what is the nature of our responsibility in this deeply altered world? To address that question, biblical scholars Bruce C. Birch and Jacqueline E. Lapsley and Christian ethicists Larry L. Rasmussen and Cynthia Moe-Lobeda carry on "a new conversation" that engages how Christians are to understand the authority and use of Scripture, the basic elements of any full-bodied Christian ethic attuned to our circumstances, and the nature of our responsibility to our planetary neighbors and creation itself.
Author: Wayne Grudem
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2024-09-17
Total Pages: 1648
ISBN-13: 1433590867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat Does the Bible Teach about How to Live in Today's World? How should Christians live when the surrounding culture is increasingly hostile to Christian moral values? Granted, the Bible is our guide—but how can we know if we are interpreting it rightly with regard to ethical questions about wealth and poverty, marriage and divorce, birth control, abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship, and dozens of other issues? And on a very practical level, how can we know God's will in the ordinary decisions of life? To address questions like these, Wayne Grudem, author of the bestselling book Systematic Theology, draws on 40 years of teaching classes in ethics to write this wide-ranging introduction to biblical moral reasoning, organized according to the structure of the Ten Commandments. He issues a challenging call for Christians to live lives of personal holiness and offers a vision of the Christian life that is full of joy and blessing through living each day in a way that is pleasing to God. Written by Wayne Grudem: Bestselling author of Systematic Theology and the What the Bible Says About series Biblical and Applicable: Teaches readers how to protect 7 central tenets of God's law: God's honor, human authority, life, marriage, property, truth, and purity of heart Accessible: An ideal textbook for Christian college and seminary ethics classes, with straightforward language and a bibliography for the topic at the end of each chapter Replaces ISBN 978-1-4335-4965-6
Author: Kyle Harper
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-06-01
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0674074564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution.
Author: Phil Zuckerman
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2015-10-27
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0143127934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sociology professor examines the demographic shift that has led more Americans than ever before to embrace a nonreligious life and highlights the inspirational stories and beliefs that empower modern-day secular culture.
Author: Joseph J. Kotva Jr.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 1996-09-01
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781589014282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the growing interest among philosophers and theologians in virtue ethics, its proponents have done little to suggest why Christians in particular find virtue ethics attractive. Joseph J. Kotva, Jr., addresses this question in The Christian Case for Virtue Ethics, showing that virtue theory offers an ethical framework that is highly compatible with Christian morality. Kotva defines virtue ethics and demonstrates its ability to voice Christian convictions about how to live the moral life. He evaluates virtue theory in light of systematic theology and Scripture, arguing that Christian ethics could be profitably linked with neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics. Ecumenical in tone, this book provides a thorough but accessible introduction to recent philosophical accounts of virtue and offers an original, explicitly Christian adaptation of these ideas. It will be of value to students and scholars of philosophy, theology, and religion, as well as to those interested in the debates surrounding virtue ethics.
Author: Margaret Farley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2008-02-15
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 144114420X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2008 Grawemeyer Award in Religion This long-awaited book by one of American Christianity's foremost ethicists proposes a framework for sexual ethics whereby justice is the criterion for all loving, including love that is related to sexual activity and relationships. It begins with historical and cross-cultural explorations, then addresses the large questions of embodiment, gender, and sexuality, and finally delineates the justice framework for sexual ethics. Though Just Love's particular focus is Christian sexual ethics, Farley's framework is broad enough to have relevance for multiple traditions. Also covered are specific issues in sexual ethics, including same-sex relationships, marriage and family, divorce and second marriage.
