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Author : Martin E. Marty
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807012076
America's preeminent religious historian reflects on the critical role of religious diversity in our national self-understanding.
Author : David Hollenbach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521894514
The Common Good and Christian Ethics rethinks the ancient tradition of the common good in a way that addresses contemporary social divisions, both urban and global. David Hollenbach draws on social analysis, moral philosophy, and theological ethics to chart new directions in both urban life and global society. He argues that the division between the middle class and the poor in major cities and the challenges of globalisation require a new commitment to the common good and that both believers and secular people must move towards new forms of solidarity.
Author : Daniel P. Scheid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199359431
As ecological degradation continues to threaten permanent and dramatic changes for life on our planet, the question of how we can protect our imperiled Earth has become more pressing than ever before. In this book, Daniel Scheid draws on Catholic social thought to construct what he calls the "cosmic common good," a new norm for interreligious ecological ethics. This ethical vision sees humans as an intimate part of the greater whole of the cosmos, emphasizes the simultaneous instrumental and intrinsic value of nature, and affirms the integral connection between religious practice and the pursuit of the common good. When ecologically reoriented, Catholic social thought can point the way toward several principles of the cosmic common good, such as the virtue of Earth solidarity and the promotion of Earth rights. These are rooted in the classical doctrines of creation in Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, and in Thomas Berry's interpretation of the evolutionary cosmic story. The cosmic common good can also be found in Hindu, Buddhist, and American Indian religious traditions. By placing a Catholic cosmic common good in dialogue with Hindu dharmic ecology, Buddhist interdependence, and American Indian balance with all our relations, Scheid constructs a theologically authentic moral framework that re-envisions humanity's role in the universe.
Author : Miroslav Volf
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587432989
An intellectual and applied Christian engagement with what it really means to flourish as human beings in relationship to God and one another.
Author : Corwin E. Smidt
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780918954855
While Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone (2000) highlighted the notion of volunteerism, little attention has been paid to religion's role in generating social capital--an ironic omission since religion constitutes the most common form of voluntary association in America today. Featuring essays by prominent social scientists, this is the first book-length, systematic examination of the relationship between religion and social capital and what effects religious social capital has on democratic life in the United States.
Author : Ernest L. Fortin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461637523
Volume Three of Ernest Fortin: Collected Essays discusses the current state of Christianity—especially twentieth-century Catholic Christianity—and the problems with which it has had to wrestle in the midst of rapid scientific progress, profound social change, and growing moral anarchy. In this volume, Fortin discusses such topics as Christianity and the liberal democratic ethos; Christianity, science, and the arts; Ancients and Moderns; papal social thought; virtue and liberalism; pagan and Christian virtue; and the American Catholic church and politics.
Author : Martin E. Marty,Jonathan Moore
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015048516473
The future of America, in many ways, depends upon an understanding of the proper role of religion in our shared life as a republic. Discussions and debates on the topic have too often generated noise, platitudes, stereotypes, name-calling, and the distortion of vitally important issues, instead of constructive conversation among citizens--until now. Of all the voices commenting about American religion today, none is more credible or better known than that of historian Martin E. Marty. A respected scholar, author, editor, and media commentator, he has-perhaps better than anyone else in the field-a deep grasp on the complex issues surrounding public religion.
Author : Jonathan Sacks
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541675322
A distinguished religious leader's stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values. With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on the rise, many fear what the future holds. In Morality, respected faith leader and public intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces today's crisis to our loss of a strong, shared moral code and our elevation of self-interest over the common good. We have outsourced morality to the market and the state, but neither is capable of showing us how to live. Sacks leads readers from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment to the present day to show that there is no liberty without morality and no freedom without responsibility, arguing that we all must play our part in rebuilding a common moral foundation. A major work of moral philosophy, Morality is an inspiring vision of a world in which we can all find our place and face the future without fear.
Author : Gary J. Dorrien
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781592449491
This landmark study in the history and theory of modern Christian socialism examines the work of such major figures as Rauschenbusch, Tillich, Moltmann, GutiŽrrez, and M'guez Bonino. Dorrien argues that these theologians provide a singular context for addressing questions of freedom and totalitarianism, sacralization and democratization, individual autonomy and the common good. He focuses on the differing conceptions of the common good that these major theorists have propounded, and explicates as well their theological arguments on the relationship between the Kingdom of God and projects of historical praxis. With a new Preface addressing the tumultuous events in Eastern Europe, Reconstructing the Common Good develops and sustains a forceful argument for the continuing relevance of a decentralized, pluralistic, democratic form of socialism.
Author : Kevin Ahern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1626982023
This volume explores the contributions to the field of social ethics by David Hollenbach, one of the most prominent voices in the promotion of the common good over the past half-century.Whatever became of the idea of a "common good"? Ethicists and theologians lament the decline in public life of the importance of this concept, so central to the character of civil society and so crucial for the flourishing of individuals within it. In our own culture, the promotion of the common good is a valuable corrective to our atomised morality and laissez-faire economics. This volume, on the 30th anniversary of the famous U.S. Bishops' economics pastoral letter, brings together some of the leading lights in ethics to discuss the role, impact, and importance of public theology across the globe.
Author : Jim Wallis
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0745956122
This classic that has been inspiring and challenging readers to a spiritual adventure for over a century now gets an updated look for a new generation.
Author : Jim Wallis
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441221827
Jim Wallis thinks our life together can be better. In this timely and provocative book, he shows us how to reclaim Jesus's ancient and compelling vision of the common good--a vision that impacts and inspires not only our politics but also our personal lives, families, churches, neighborhoods, and world. Now available in paperback with a new preface. "Personal/political, religion/politics, faith/power, ideology/pragmatism . . . Jim Wallis is a wrestler of values, ideas, and policies and how they interact to shape the world we live in. His deep, melodious voice is easy to listen to, but what he says takes a harder commitment to live by."--Bono, lead singer of U2; cofounder of ONE.org "Wallis persuades more powerfully here than ever before. . . . He lays out the theology of [Jesus's gospel of the kingdom] and then issues to all Christians a rallying cry to apply that theology both in private life and in the arena of public activity."--Phyllis Tickle, author of Emergence Christianity "Jim Wallis has long been an influential voice on Christian ethics and public life. . . . A fresh take on the interplay of faith and politics in America."--Relevant "Jim Wallis and I have a variety of differences on domestic and international policy, but there is no message more timely or urgent than his call to actively consider the common good."--Michael Gerson, op-ed columnist, The Washington Post "Reading this book will help you be more like Jesus, especially in the public square."--Joel C. Hunter, senior pastor, Northland--A Church Distributed
Author : William R. O'Neill, SJ
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781647120351
In Reimagining Human Rights, William O’Neill presents an interpretation of human rights “from below,” showing how victims of atrocity can embrace the rhetoric of human rights to dismantle old narratives of power and advance new ones. Topics covered include race and mass incarceration, immigration and refugee policy, and ecological responsibility.
Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781646982011
A decade ago, Walter Brueggemann called the church to journey together for the good of our community through neighborliness, covenanting, and reconstruction. He distilled this challenge to its most basic issues: Where is the church going? What is its role in contemporary society? What lessons does it have to offer a world enmeshed in turbulent times? Published originally in 2010, Journey to the Common Good spoke to an era defined in large part by America's efforts to rebuild from an age of terror as it navigated its way through an economic collapse. Today, the dual crises of the coronavirus and the disease of racial injustice present daunting new challenges for the church as it seeks the good of its neighbors. In a new introduction to this updated edition, Brueggemann links the wilderness tradition of Exodus to these current crises, as a framework to help the church navigate this time of risk and vulnerability and to pursue a genuine social alternative to the governance of Pharaoh. The answer to the question of the church’s role in society is the same answer God gave to the Israelites thousands of years ago: love your neighbor and work for the common good.
Author : Armando Salvatore,Dale F. Eickelman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004136212
This book shows how competing Islamic ideas and practices create alternative political and social realities in the Muslim majority regions of the Arab Middle East, Iran, South Asia, Africa, and elsewhere in ways that differ from the emergence of the public sphere in Europe.