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Moral issues and Christian responses / edited by Patricia Beattie Jung and L. Shannon Jung.

Contributor(s): Jung, Patricia Beattie | Jung, L. Shannon (Loyle Shannon), 1943-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Eighth editionDescription: xiv, 464 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780800698966 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0800698967 (pbk. : alk. paper)Other title: Moral issues & Christian responsesSubject(s): Christian ethicsDDC classification: 241 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction: A primer on doing ethics -- Part 1. What makes ethics Christian? Biblical authority / Walter Brueggemann -- The Bible in transit / Phyllis Trible -- A death to celebrate? : the just-war tradition and the killing of Osama Bin Laden / Ronald Osborn -- How I learned to stop worrying and love the brain / David A. Hogue -- "Wading through many sorrows" : toward a theology of suffering in Womanist perspective / M. Shawn Copeland -- The eclipse of love for God / Edward Collins Vacek -- Mujerista discourse : a platform for Latinas' subjugated knowledge / Ada María Isasi-Díaz -- "Rights and wrongs" : an interview with Nicholas Wolterstorff -- The unholy trinity of consumerism / Skye Jethani -- Imitating God : nickel mines, forgiveness, and Yoder / Donald B. Kraybill -- Blame versus forgiveness / John Kekes -- Lessons in mercy : justice and reconciliation in the aftermath of atrocities / Daniel Philpott -- Letting go : the final miracle of forgiveness / Miroslav Volf -- Part 2. Sexual ethics. The body's grace / Rowan Williams -- Marriage prep and double standards : the hookup culture's damaging effects / Kari-Shane Davis Zimmerman -- Good sex : its meaning and morals / Dennis Hollinger -- Love your enemy : sex, power, and Christian ethics / Karen Lebacqz -- Sexual slavery on Main Street / Elissa Cooper -- A betrothal proposal / Michael G. Lawler and Gail S. Risch -- Domestic abuse / Judith Ewing -- No good divorce : the children's perspective : an interview with Elizabeth Marquardt -- What God has joined / David Instone-Brewer -- Role play / Patti Ricotta -- Advice and consent : monogamy in the age of Dan Savage / Benjamin J. Dueholm --
Part 3. Prejudice and discrimination. Awaiting the redemption of our bodies / Richard B. Hays -- Heterosexism and the interpretation of Romans 1:18-32 / Dale B. Martin -- Bearing better witness / Ron Sider -- Blessing same-sex marriages / Patricia Beattie Jung -- Obama and race in America : what's changed? / Gerald Early ... [et al.] -- Race matters / Cornel West -- Whiteness : the structure of institutional racism / Elaine A. Robinson -- Part 4. Issues of national and global priority. Imagining the immigrant : why legality must give way to humanity / John J. Savant -- Creating a sacred space : an Iglesia evangélica response to global homelessness / Loida I. Martell-Otero -- A Judeo-Christian approach to "comprehensive" immigration reform / Carol M. Swain -- Poisoning the well : a review of Mark Hertsgaard's Hot : living through the next 50 years on earth / Wen Stephenson -- Toward an ethic of ecojustice / James B. Martin-Schramm -- The challenge of biocentrism / Thomas Sieger Derr -- An earth-honoring faith / Larry Rasmussen -- When "knowledge" is simply "all wet" and "ignorance is bliss"! : Christian environmental ethics meets science in Louisiana's wetlands / Dawn M. Nothwehr --
Part 5. Economic justice. Pay attention to the birds / Ched Myers -- Just a little bit more : greed and the malling of our souls / Robert C. Roberts -- Nickel and dimed : a review of Bethany Moreton's To serve God and Wal-Mart : the making of Christian free enterprise / Robert Frank -- When generosity is not enough / Ellen T. Charry -- Fighting poverty to build peace / Howard J. Hubbard -- Just deserts : beyond the free market / Kent A. Van Til -- When is self-interest moral? : a gap in Catholic social teaching / Daniel K. Finn -- Christian theology and development / Gnana Robinson -- Shopping for justice : the trouble with good intentions / Charles M. North and Bob Smietana -- The dread cancer of stinginess / John Rowell -- Still hungry : a review of Dambisa Moyo's Dead aid : a better way for Africa / Sandra F. Joireman -- Part 6. Issues of life and death. Theology and morality of procreative choice / Beverly Wildung Harrison with Shirley Cloyes -- Abortion and the sexual agenda / Sidney Callahan -- Fetal status : sources and implications / Thomas A. Shannon -- What actually works? : the right supports can reduce abortion rates / Glen Stassen -- Still dying badly : a Christian critique / Allen Verhey -- Assisted suicide : do we own our bodies? / Jarmo Tarkki -- The case for physician-assisted suicide? / James F. Keenan -- A horrific crime : but is execution the answer? / Cathleen Kaveny -- Catholicism and capital punishment / Cardinal Avery Dulles -- Crime and sacrifice / Tobias Winright -- Did 9/11 make us morally "better"? / Miroslav Volf -- When the shooting stops : criteria for a just peace / Mark J. Allman and Tobias L. Winright -- Courageous nonviolence / Ron Sider -- Against the new Utopianism / Jean Bethke Elshtain.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: A primer on doing ethics -- Part 1. What makes ethics Christian? Biblical authority / Walter Brueggemann -- The Bible in transit / Phyllis Trible -- A death to celebrate? : the just-war tradition and the killing of Osama Bin Laden / Ronald Osborn -- How I learned to stop worrying and love the brain / David A. Hogue -- "Wading through many sorrows" : toward a theology of suffering in Womanist perspective / M. Shawn Copeland -- The eclipse of love for God / Edward Collins Vacek -- Mujerista discourse : a platform for Latinas' subjugated knowledge / Ada María Isasi-Díaz -- "Rights and wrongs" : an interview with Nicholas Wolterstorff -- The unholy trinity of consumerism / Skye Jethani -- Imitating God : nickel mines, forgiveness, and Yoder / Donald B. Kraybill -- Blame versus forgiveness / John Kekes -- Lessons in mercy : justice and reconciliation in the aftermath of atrocities / Daniel Philpott -- Letting go : the final miracle of forgiveness / Miroslav Volf -- Part 2. Sexual ethics. The body's grace / Rowan Williams -- Marriage prep and double standards : the hookup culture's damaging effects / Kari-Shane Davis Zimmerman -- Good sex : its meaning and morals / Dennis Hollinger -- Love your enemy : sex, power, and Christian ethics / Karen Lebacqz -- Sexual slavery on Main Street / Elissa Cooper -- A betrothal proposal / Michael G. Lawler and Gail S. Risch -- Domestic abuse / Judith Ewing -- No good divorce : the children's perspective : an interview with Elizabeth Marquardt -- What God has joined / David Instone-Brewer -- Role play / Patti Ricotta -- Advice and consent : monogamy in the age of Dan Savage / Benjamin J. Dueholm --

Part 3. Prejudice and discrimination. Awaiting the redemption of our bodies / Richard B. Hays -- Heterosexism and the interpretation of Romans 1:18-32 / Dale B. Martin -- Bearing better witness / Ron Sider -- Blessing same-sex marriages / Patricia Beattie Jung -- Obama and race in America : what's changed? / Gerald Early ... [et al.] -- Race matters / Cornel West -- Whiteness : the structure of institutional racism / Elaine A. Robinson -- Part 4. Issues of national and global priority. Imagining the immigrant : why legality must give way to humanity / John J. Savant -- Creating a sacred space : an Iglesia evangélica response to global homelessness / Loida I. Martell-Otero -- A Judeo-Christian approach to "comprehensive" immigration reform / Carol M. Swain -- Poisoning the well : a review of Mark Hertsgaard's Hot : living through the next 50 years on earth / Wen Stephenson -- Toward an ethic of ecojustice / James B. Martin-Schramm -- The challenge of biocentrism / Thomas Sieger Derr -- An earth-honoring faith / Larry Rasmussen -- When "knowledge" is simply "all wet" and "ignorance is bliss"! : Christian environmental ethics meets science in Louisiana's wetlands / Dawn M. Nothwehr --

Part 5. Economic justice. Pay attention to the birds / Ched Myers -- Just a little bit more : greed and the malling of our souls / Robert C. Roberts -- Nickel and dimed : a review of Bethany Moreton's To serve God and Wal-Mart : the making of Christian free enterprise / Robert Frank -- When generosity is not enough / Ellen T. Charry -- Fighting poverty to build peace / Howard J. Hubbard -- Just deserts : beyond the free market / Kent A. Van Til -- When is self-interest moral? : a gap in Catholic social teaching / Daniel K. Finn -- Christian theology and development / Gnana Robinson -- Shopping for justice : the trouble with good intentions / Charles M. North and Bob Smietana -- The dread cancer of stinginess / John Rowell -- Still hungry : a review of Dambisa Moyo's Dead aid : a better way for Africa / Sandra F. Joireman -- Part 6. Issues of life and death. Theology and morality of procreative choice / Beverly Wildung Harrison with Shirley Cloyes -- Abortion and the sexual agenda / Sidney Callahan -- Fetal status : sources and implications / Thomas A. Shannon -- What actually works? : the right supports can reduce abortion rates / Glen Stassen -- Still dying badly : a Christian critique / Allen Verhey -- Assisted suicide : do we own our bodies? / Jarmo Tarkki -- The case for physician-assisted suicide? / James F. Keenan -- A horrific crime : but is execution the answer? / Cathleen Kaveny -- Catholicism and capital punishment / Cardinal Avery Dulles -- Crime and sacrifice / Tobias Winright -- Did 9/11 make us morally "better"? / Miroslav Volf -- When the shooting stops : criteria for a just peace / Mark J. Allman and Tobias L. Winright -- Courageous nonviolence / Ron Sider -- Against the new Utopianism / Jean Bethke Elshtain.

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