This book, a re-issue of the 1999 edition, demonstrates that the way of life we call Christian is lived in relationships to others. Christian faith, understood as practical piety, calls for a life opened to the world at large, concerned for the "stranger" as well as for the neighbor. Sedgwick further emphasizes that the Christian life is grounded in the experience and worship of God. His work thus develops Christian ethics as "sacramental ethics,"...

A constructive theology and ethics of money in the Christian life, this series addition is by James Hudnut-Beumler, dean and associate professor of religion and culture at Columbia Theological Seminary, and deals with vital questions. "What does the Lord require? what is the true meaning of the term 'commonwealth?' and how does the church build a stable base for its members to live ethical lives?" A positive approach to forming the basis for new thought...

The goal of the Health Ethics Guide is threefold: 1. to remind readers of the fundamental commitment within the Catholic tradition to the ministry of caring for those who are sick and suffering; 2. to articulate the values and principles found within that tradition by providing guidelines for ethical decision making; and 3. to promote a pastoral understanding of how these principles and values can guide decision making in health and social services....

La eugenesia, al consolidarse como un movimiento científico con alcances políticos, económicos, culturales y éticos, logró convertirse en política de Estado. El imaginario eugenésico alcanzó a Latinoamérica, donde no se aplicó el exterminio, pero se patologizaron diferencias raciales y culturales. La presente investigación analiza como el Estado colombiano fomentó estrategias eugenésicas de mejoramiento racial, que constituyeron una política...

He's a man whose life is so intertwined with his job that we know him only as the columnist. He writes for a newspaper in Seattle, isn't afraid to stir up trouble and keeps his life - including his multiple lovers and his past - in safe compartments. It's all about to be violently upended when he goes out on what seems like the most mundane of assignments, looking into a staid company that never makes news. But from the moment one of his sources takes...

A classic text in biblical theology, still relevant for today and tomorrow. In this edition of the classic text from one of the most influential biblical scholars of our time, Walter Brueggemann, offers a theological and ethical reading of the Hebrew Bible. He finds there a vision for the community of God whose words and practices of lament, protest and complain give rise to an alternative social order that opposes the "totalism" of the day. Brueggemann...

The significance of this text in Ethics lies in its effort to awaken a vital conviction of the genuine reality of moral problems and the value of reflective thought in dealing with them. To this purpose are subordinated the presentation in Part I. of historic material, the discussion in Part II. of the different types of theoretical interpretation, and the consideration, in Part III., of some typical social and economic problems which characterize...

" Ética bíblica cristiana " se escribió para subrayar la unidad de la teología y la ética. Partiendo de la presuposición de que las Santas Escrituras son la única regla de fe y práctica, reconocemos que la Biblia es la fuente y la norma, no solamente para la doctrina, sino también para la ética. De acuerdo con esta perspectiva, no son disciplinas separadas, sino partes integrales del estudio de la revelación que Dios nos ha dado acerca...

Otherness and Ethics demonstrates how Levinas and Confucius (Kongzi) develop their ideas of otherness and ethics. Most of all, the meaning of inter-subjectivity is examined in order to employ this point as this book delves into the phenomenon of face in Levinas and the significance of Ren (human-relatedness) in Confucius (Kongzi). In addition, this book searches their different notions of humanity and relatedness to have a creative discourse for developing...

How do educators, clergy, attorneys, and the concerned public come to terms with meaningful, workable ethics in an age that eschews any attempt to define truth and error? Michael A. Milton has addressed that question in the new monograph, From Flanders Field to the Moviegoer: Philosophical Foundations for a Transcendent Ethical Framework. Milton draws on English literature, sociology, history, public policy, and theology to mark milestones in the...