Feminist Ethic of Risk REV Ed
ISBN: 9780800631857 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An updated edition of this influential feminist text.
An updated edition of this influential feminist text.
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Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches
ISBN: 9780800631864 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twenty prominent church leaders give an engaging and challenging look at homosexuality.
Twenty prominent church leaders give an engaging and challenging look at homosexuality.
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Humanity Before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Ethics
ISBN: 9780800638221 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Does religious extremism represent an inevitable consequence of firmly held beliefs in life-and-death situations? Is there a way out? Gathering ethicists and scholars from the three major and often conflicting monotheistic traditions, each was asked to correlate a religious tradition's sacred texts and tradition with the contemporary world's pluralism and claims about the inalienable sanctity and dignity of human life. The result is that the reader sees "human life before God" in new and profound ways. Contributors include: Hilary Putnam Abdulaziz Sachedina Lisa Sowle Cahill Michael Fishbane...
Does religious extremism represent an inevitable consequence of firmly held beliefs in life-and-death situations? Is there a way out? Gathering ethici...
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In Praise of Virtue: An Exploration of the Biblical Virtues in a Christian Context
ISBN: 9780802807922 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this resourceful and illuminating exploration of the biblical virtues, Benjamin W. Farley examines both the Old and the New Testament and applies their teachings on moral character to the Christian life today.
In this resourceful and illuminating exploration of the biblical virtues, Benjamin W. Farley examines both the Old and the New Testament and applies t...
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93,56 zł |
The Ethos of the Cosmos: The Genesis of Moral Imagination in the Bible
ISBN: 9780802845399 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking work investigates how the various pictures of creation found in Scripture helped shape the ancient faith community's moral character. Bringing together the fields of biblical studies and ethics, William Brown demonstrates how certain creation traditions of the Old and New Testaments were developed from the community's moral imagination for the purpose of forming and preserving both Israel's and the early church's identity in the world.
This groundbreaking work investigates how the various pictures of creation found in Scripture helped shape the ancient faith community's moral charact...
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Explorations In Global Ethics: Comparative Religious Ethics And Interreligious Dialogue
ISBN: 9780813366234 / Angielski / Miękka / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of interreligious dialogue. Its design is premised on two important insights. First, interreligious dialogue offers to comparative religious ethics a new, more persuasive rationale, agenda of issues, and practical orientation. Second, comparative religious ethics offers to interreligious dialogue an arsenal of critical tools and methods which will enhance the sophistication of its practical work. In this way, both theory (a dominant concern and...
This volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of i...
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All Creation is Groaning: An Interdisciplinary Vision for Life in a Sacred Universe
ISBN: 9780814659328 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This multi-academic perspective on contemporary environmental issues reminds us of our oneness with the natural world and what that calls us to as moral creatures. Fashioned as a series of stories based on the model of biblical narrative, these seemingly multivalent voices and perspectives are joined together with biblical stories, references, and theological reflection to create in All Creation Is Groaning a seamless story that is both provocative and revelatory. All Creation Is Groaning provides a clear vision of living life in a sacred universe. This vision is... This multi-academic perspective on contemporary environmental issues reminds us of our oneness with the natural world and what that calls us to as ... |
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Liturgy and the Moral Self: Humanity at Full Stretch Before God
ISBN: 9780814661680 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1979 liturgical theologian Don Saliers published an essay challenging both the Church's and the theological academy's understanding of the relationship between liturgy and ethics. Liturgy and the Moral Self seeks to honor Saliers by responding to his prophetic and prescriptive invitation to theological work that is framed in terms of the doublefocus of Liturgy - the glorification of God and the sanctification of humanity]." Thematically grouped, this symposium engages a variety of theological disciplines in the effort to understand and enVision how liturgy, spirituality,... In 1979 liturgical theologian Don Saliers published an essay challenging both the Church's and the theological academy's understanding of the relat... |
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Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics
ISBN: 9780827608252 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A leading ethicist suggests ways to take the moral high road in one's personal life. In this topically relevant book on modern ethical issues, Dorff focuses on personal ethics, Judaism's distinctive way of understanding human nature, our role in life, and what we should strive to be, both as individuals and as members of a community. Dorff addresses specific moral issues that affect our personal lives: privacy, particularly at work as it is affected by the Internet and other modern technologies; sex in and outside of marriage; family matters, such as adoption, surrogate motherhood,... A leading ethicist suggests ways to take the moral high road in one's personal life. In this topically relevant book on modern ethical issue... |
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Body & Soul: Human Nature the Crisis in Ethics
ISBN: 9780830815777 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -- Contains extensive notes
-- Offers a vigorous defense of body-soul dualism -- Considers the medical and ethical implications of the existence of the soul Throughout Human History most people have believed that we are both physical and spiritual beings, that in fact the immaterial part of us can live on even when separated from our bodies by death. The rise of science, however, has called into question the existence of the soul. Concurrent with the demise of dualism has been the rise of advanced medical technologies that have brought to the fore difficult issues at both edges of... -- Contains extensive notes
-- Offers a vigorous defense of body-soul dualism -- Considers the medical and ethical implications of the existence... |
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187,11 zł |
Repentance: A Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780847684717 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is no consensus about what someone who has violated society's rules must do in order to be fully restored to the community. Although repentance is a prominent idea in religions ranging from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to Buddhism and Hinduism, its use in civic culture is vague and inconsistent. For example, is remorse the same as repentance? Drawing from a variety of religious and civic perspectives, the renowned contributors to this book_from the fields of theology, philosophy, and the social sciences_offer a broad understanding of repentance and its many applications. The essays...
There is no consensus about what someone who has violated society's rules must do in order to be fully restored to the community. Although repentance ...
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Praying for a Cure: When Medical and Religious Practices Conflict
ISBN: 9780847692637 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the children of Christian Scientists die from a treatable illness, are their parents guilty of murder for withholding that treatment? How should the rights of children, the authority of the medical community, and religious freedom be balanced? Is it possible for those adhering to a medical model of health and disease and for those adhering to the Christian Science model to enter into a meaningful dialogue, or are the two models incommensurable? DesAutels, Battin, and May engage in a lucid and candid debate of the issues of who is ultimately responsible for deciding these questions and...
When the children of Christian Scientists die from a treatable illness, are their parents guilty of murder for withholding that treatment? How should ...
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195,42 zł |
The Golden Rule A Universal Ethic
ISBN: 9780853982272 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at the 'Golden Rule' as it is variously expressed in each of the major religious systems in the world today.
This book looks at the 'Golden Rule' as it is variously expressed in each of the major religious systems in the world today.
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Introduction to Jewish and Catholic Bioethics: A Comparative Analysis
ISBN: 9780878401468 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leavened with compassion, common sense, and a readable style, this introduction to complicated bioethical issues from both Jewish and Catholic perspectives is as informative as it is undaunting. Aaron Mackler takes the reader through methodology in Roman Catholic moral theology and compares and contrasts it with methodology as it is practiced in Jewish ethics. He then skillfully wends his way through many topics foremost on the contemporary ethical agenda for both Jewish and Catholic ethicists: euthanasia and assisted suicide, end-of-life decisions, abortion, in vitro fertilization, and... Leavened with compassion, common sense, and a readable style, this introduction to complicated bioethical issues from both Jewish and Catholic pers... |
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The Banality of Good and Evil: Moral Lessons from the Shoah and Jewish Tradition
ISBN: 9780878407156 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People who helped exterminate Jews during the shoah (Hebrew for "holocaust") often claimed that they only did what was expected of them. Intrigued by hearing the same response from individuals who rescued Jews, David R. Blumenthal proposes that the notion of ordinariness used to characterize Nazi evil is equally applicable to goodness. In this provocative book, Blumenthal develops a new theory of human behavior that identifies the social and psychological factors that foster both good and evil behavior. Drawing on lessons primarily from the shoah but also from well-known obedience... People who helped exterminate Jews during the shoah (Hebrew for "holocaust") often claimed that they only did what was expected of them. Intrigued ... |
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Curing Violence : Essays on Rene Girad
ISBN: 9780944344439 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A diverse collection of essays revolving around the theories of RenT Girard, whose theory of the scapegoat the marginal person accused of threatening social order offers vital insight into the study of religion and society. Early chapters provide general theoretical perspectives on Girard's work in
A diverse collection of essays revolving around the theories of RenT Girard, whose theory of the scapegoat the marginal person accused of threatening ...
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Health Care and Information Ethics: Protecting Fundamental Human Rights
ISBN: 9781556129223 / Angielski / Miękka / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together experts in the fields of information ethics and health care to explore the impactions of these challenges as they impact what kind of care will be available, who will receive health care, and how the care is monitored.
This volume brings together experts in the fields of information ethics and health care to explore the impactions of these challenges as they impact w...
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200,70 zł |
Choices at the Heart of Technology
ISBN: 9781563382871 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What really drives the technologies that dominate our modern world? Ruth Conway here brings under scrutiny: the deceptive dreams of development, the masculine "voice and structure" of so much technology, the obsession with control that obliterates both recognition of human fallibility and sensitivity to the needs of "the other," the inadequacies of technologies that fail to take account of the "wholeness" of life and what might constitute "justice" (right relationships) within the human community and with nature, and the impact of information and communication technologies on our ways of...
What really drives the technologies that dominate our modern world? Ruth Conway here brings under scrutiny: the deceptive dreams of development, the m...
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Better Hope, A Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity
ISBN: 9781587430008 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By his own admission never one to duck a good fight, Stanley Hauerwas has in the past three decades established himself as one of our most important and most disputatious theologians. With A Better Hope, he concentrates on the constructive case for the truth and power of the church and its faith, "since Christians cannot afford to let ourselves be defined by what we are against. Whatever or whomever we are against, we are so only because God has given us so much to be for." Hauerwas here crystallizes and extends profound criticisms of America, liberalism, capitalism, and...
By his own admission never one to duck a good fight, Stanley Hauerwas has in the past three decades established himself as one of our most important a...
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149,03 zł |
For All Peoples and All Nations: The Ecumenical Church and Human Rights
ISBN: 9781589010598 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this new century, born in hope but soon thereafter cloaked in terror, many see religion and politics as a volatile, if not deadly, mixture. For All Peoples and All Nations uncovers a remarkable time when that was not so; when together, those two entities gave rise to a new ideal: universal human rights. John Nurser has given life to a history almost sadly forgotten, and introduces the reader to the brilliant and heroic people of many faiths who, out of the aftermath of World War II and in the face of cynicism, dismissive animosity, and even ridicule, forged one of the... In this new century, born in hope but soon thereafter cloaked in terror, many see religion and politics as a volatile, if not deadly, mixture. F... |
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355,28 zł |