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Ownership: Early Christian Teaching

Author : Charles Avila
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592447287
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Ownership: Early Christian Teaching written by Charles Avila and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-06-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Avila's important retrieval of patristic texts reminds us that the 'option for the poor' is not a new theological fad, but an ancient Christian legacy. Joe Holland, Center of Concern, Washington, D.C. Charles Avila has provided an important recovery of the patristic teachings on wealth and poverty and has shown that a Christian theology of stewardship must be rooted in an ethic of economic justice. Rosemary Radford Ruether, Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology, Pacific School of Religion This book is a rich anthology of a stream of Christianity which offers a striking vision of what the Redemption ought to imply normatively for a Christian-inspired organization of economic and social life. Prophetic reminders of basic truths about wealth and poverty are never out of date. Denis Goulet, Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame At long last, here is a book from a Christian and Asian voice of the Third World who rediscovers and re-echoes afresh for our times the prophetic, undiluted, and revolutionary patristic thought on property - a well-kept secret until now - a voice that speaks with a 'bite' to the rich and powerful on behalf of the millions of landless, propertyless victims of injustice. Scholarly yet lucid, disturbing but challenging, truly 'good news' to the poor, this book is the fruit of lived experience with the peasants in the Philippines by a self-exiled oppositionist to the Marcos regime. Vitaliano R. Gorospe, S.J., Department of Theology, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines This book will do a great amount of good for people who are searching into this question of property all across the world. It should be read in every sociology as well as every economics class. Msgr. John J. Egan, Archdiocese of Chicago Like pacifism, the early church's teaching about poverty has been too long neglected or submerged. I found this exposition of the Church fathers very useful. James R. Jennings, Campaign for Human Development, United States Catholic Conference

Wealth as Peril and Obligation

Author : Sondra Ely Wheeler
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802807335
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Wealth as Peril and Obligation written by Sondra Ely Wheeler and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This painstaking study of the New Testament helps bring clarity to one of the great ethical dilemmas of the modern church--the moral status of wealth and possessions in relation to Christian faith.

A Theology of the Built Environment

Author : Timothy Gorringe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521891448
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book A Theology of the Built Environment written by Timothy Gorringe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 2002 book, Tim Gorringe reflects theologically on the built environment as a whole.

Eclipse of Justice

Author : George E. McCarthy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725223740
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Eclipse of Justice written by George E. McCarthy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-12-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sociologist and a church historian provide a probling scholarly critique of Economic Justice for All, the American bishops' pastoral letter on Catholicism and the U.S. economy. McCarthy and Rhodes examine the letter's focus on poverty, inequality, and powerlessness in American society. They review classical concepts of social ethics and economic justice as applied by the bishops to analyze the social, political, and economic institutions of American. By examining reactions to the letter from both the political left and right, Eclipse of Justice opens up the full range of debate about the nature of social ethics. The first part of Eclipse of Justice presents the moral dilemma created by the bishops' critique of liberalism (they pronounced it a "social and moral scandal") and explores the antecedents--papal, episcipal, and lay--that provided the ideas and vocabulary for the bishops' letter. The second part analyzes the pastoral letter and locates it within the larger context of debates about economic structures in modern liberalism. The third part examines attempts of the bishops to relate Christian social doctrine to international political and economic issues, and probes the contributions of liberation theology and dependency theory.

Relating to Landed Property

Author : Sofia Bianchi Mancini
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3593457644
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Relating to Landed Property written by Sofia Bianchi Mancini and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2024-09-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wie wird Raum durch historische und religiöse Ansprüche auf Grundbesitz konzipiert und konstituiert? Wie wird Enteignung in sich verändernden Eigentumsordnungen umgesetzt und theoretisiert? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes befassen sich mit postkolonialen Kritiken des Grundbesitzes und bieten eine dringend benötigte Kontextualisierung der Art und Weise, wie die Geschichte des göttlichen Besitzes, des Imperiums, des Siedlerkolonialismus, der Sklaverei und der Enteignung indigener Völker die heutige Praxis des Grundbesitzes beeinflusst. Das Buch vereint dafür Perspektiven aus den Bereichen Religionswissenschaft, Geschichte, Philosophie, Rechtsgeschichte, Ökonomie und Soziologie und leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Verknüpfung von Theorie und Praxis in der Kritik zeitgenössischer Eigentumsordnungen in Europa und Nordamerika; es liefert zudem methodische Anregungen, um theoretische Diskussionen auf ein nuanciertes Verständnis der Vergangenheit zu gründen. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

From Irenaeus to Grotius

Author : Oliver O'Donovan
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802842091
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book From Irenaeus to Grotius written by Oliver O'Donovan and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1999-11-17 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference tool that provides an overview of the history of Christian political thought with selections from second century to the seventeenth century. From the second century to the seventeenth, from Irenaeus to Grotius, this unique reader provides a coherent overview of the development of Christian political thought. The editors have collected readings from the works of over sixty-five authors, together with introductory essays that give historical details about each thinker and discuss how each has contributed to the tradition of Christian political thought. Complete with important Greek and Latin texts available here in English for the first time, this volume will be a primary resource for readers from a wide range of interests.

Birth of the Church

Author : Ivor J Davidson
Publisher : Monarch Books
ISBN 13 : 0857213849
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Birth of the Church written by Ivor J Davidson and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Monarch History of the Church is an eight-volume series by world-renowned historians and theologians. Each volume offers an even-handed, comprehensive and readable assessment of the main strands of Christianity within its period. The first volume covers the period AD 30-312. During this time, the church experienced major challenges politically, culturally and intellectually, yet grew and defined itself in remarkable ways. Here is the story of Christianity's earliest shapers - men and women whose influence is still felt today.

Planetary Loves

Author : Stephen D. Moore
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823233251
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Planetary Loves written by Stephen D. Moore and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial theology has recently emerged as a site of intense intellectual and political energy and has taken its place in the interdisciplinary field of postcolonial studies. This volume is animated by the conviction that postcolonial theology is now ready for a second, deeper phase of engagement with postcolonial theory, one that moves beyond the general to the specific. No critic has been more emblematic of the challenging and contested field of postcolonial theory than Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. In this volume, the product of a theological colloquium in which Spivak herself participated, theologians and biblical scholars engage with her thought in order to catalyze a diverse range of original theological and exegetical projects. The volume opens with a "topography" of postcolonial theology and also includes other valuable introductory essays. At the center of the collection are transcriptions of two extended public dialogues with Spivak on theology and religion in general. A further dozen essays appropriate Spivak's work for theological and ethical reflection. The volume is also significant for the larger field of postcolonial studies in that it is the first to focus centrally on Spivak's immensely suggestive and vital concept of "planetarity."

Beyond Tithing

Author : Stuart Murray
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 172523047X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Tithing written by Stuart Murray and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tithing is biblical but not Christian." So asserts Dr. Stuart Murray in this radical examination of the contemporary practice of tithing in which the author comes to some surprising conclusions. Stuart Murray clearly explains tithing in the Old Testament and in Christian history, but then probes further, asking penetrating questions such as: "Is tithing Christian?" "Did Jesus tithe?" "Does tithing function as a regressive tax, burdening the poor while the rich get richer?" "Does tithing lead to a legalistic approach that alienates us from Jesus?" The author suspects that a lot of the current lack of interest in the church stems from deep-seated memories of the church as oppressive, uncreative, and money-grabbing. In response we should therefore learn not to calculate percentages but explore creative ways of developing communities of justice and generosity that are good news to the poor. Beyond Tithing will stimulate your thinking and challenge the dominant influence of the practice of tithing as the model for Christian stewardship.

God Bless Our Cubicles

Author : Meg Gorzycki
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532675631
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book God Bless Our Cubicles written by Meg Gorzycki and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weasels in the workplace, colleagues in crisis, and bombastic bosses—we all know what it is like to have a “job from hell.” We also know that, despite our industriousness and integrity, many of us will someday have to choose between groceries, health care, and heating the apartment. The nuns who taught me in grade school said that all work, regardless of skills or status, was a ministry. By our helpfulness and kindness on the job, we contributed to the common good. Oh, to have those nuns in charge today! Our sense of social responsibility is eroding as the gap between the super-rich and everyone else grows, and as the rhetoric of leaders that is supposed to heal, deepen our humanity, and unite us is mean, shallow, and divisive. What are the spiritual to do in this material world, where social Darwinism and faith in God are joined at the hip? This book is about putting spirituality to work at work. It is about using spirituality to help us be in toxic places and not become toxic. It explores strategies for maintaining our humanity and moral compass, and it illuminates choices, prompts deep personal reflection, and chases demons from cubicles with humor.

A Moral Creed for All Christians

Author : Daniel C. Maguire
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451405736
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book A Moral Creed for All Christians written by Daniel C. Maguire and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely heralded for his bold and prophetic ethical thought, Maguire urges that Christianity's real relevance for the renewal of American public life lies not in the myopic morality of the Christian Right nor in any particular program of the Left but in the enduring relevance of Jesus and biblical Christianity. His new work builds on his earlier volume, The Moral Core of Judaism and Christianity, with the benefit of a new generation of social studies of the New Testament and a keen appreciation for the radically changed situation Christians confront today. Daniel C. Maguire is Professor of Ethics at Marquette University, a past president of the Society of Christian Ethics, and president of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics. A frequent lecturer and media commentator, Maguire is author of many influential works in ethics, such as Death by Choice (1974), The Moral Choice (1975), The Moral Revolution (1986), Sacred Energies (Fortress Press 2000), and Sacred Choices (Fortress Press 2001).

Orthodoxy and Anarchism

Author : Davor Džalto
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1978715374
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book Orthodoxy and Anarchism written by Davor Džalto and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together essays by contemporary Orthodox theologians and scholars on Orthodox Christianity that analyze various aspects of the complex relationship between anarchism, both as a concept and as a political philosophy, and Orthodoxy. As many studies have already shown, the dominant theological approaches in Orthodox political theology have been characterized by the search for some kind of “symphonia,” where a “harmonious” and (mutually) beneficial cooperation between the Church and the State has been sought. Although one can see many alternative attempts in contemporary Orthodox political theology to move away from traditional, monarchical, and (autocratic) symphonic models, the fact remains that most of those approaches still tend to provide theological articulations that rationalize and ultimately defend the dominant ideological systems (such as those of the “nation state” or “liberal democracy” for instance).There has been, however, another, marginal and marginalized tradition in Orthodox Christian political theology which can be labelled as “anarchist.” The purpose of this volume is to gather contemporary voices in and on Orthodox theology that explore this tradition in the history of Orthodox Christianity, or that themselves employ an “anarchist” approach to the socio-political sphere (including the Church in its institutional functioning).

Tradition and Apocalypse

Author : David Bentley Hart
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493434772
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Tradition and Apocalypse written by David Bentley Hart and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the two thousand years that have elapsed since the time of Christ, Christians have been as much divided by their faith as united, as much at odds as in communion. And the contents of Christian confession have developed with astonishing energy. How can believers claim a faith that has been passed down through the ages while recognizing the real historical contingencies that have shaped both their doctrines and their divisions? In this carefully argued essay, David Bentley Hart critiques the concept of "tradition" that has become dominant in Christian thought as fundamentally incoherent. He puts forth a convincing new explanation of Christian tradition, one that is obedient to the nature of Christianity not only as a "revealed" creed embodied in historical events but as the "apocalyptic" revelation of a history that is largely identical with the eternal truth it supposedly discloses. Hart shows that Christian tradition is sustained not simply by its preservation of the past, but more essentially by its anticipation of the future. He offers a compelling portrayal of a living tradition held together by apocalyptic expectation--the promised transformation of all things in God.

Faith in Christ Today Invitation to Systematic Theology

Author : Klaus Nurnberger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 151446313X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Faith in Christ Today Invitation to Systematic Theology written by Klaus Nurnberger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Volume I the author analyses the Word of God and the response of the Christian community in a lucid and accesible way. In this second volume he interprets the classical assertions of the Christian faith in terms of Gods creative and redemptive project in the world of today. His experiential approach is meant to restore the credibility, vibrancy and relevance of faith in Christ for our times.

The Great Sermon Tradition as a Fiscal Framework in 1 Corinthians

Author : Christopher L. Carter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 056747304X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book The Great Sermon Tradition as a Fiscal Framework in 1 Corinthians written by Christopher L. Carter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-02-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Paul's theology of material possessions and where did it come from? Through demonstrating continuity in the broad fiscal thought of Jesus and Paul, Carter suggests that Paul owes his financial thought to the great sermon tradition. Carter establishes this by assessing Paul's historical environment and extant writings to display the plausibility that Paul knew the dominical tradition. Carter goes on to assess the likelihood that Paul knew the pre-synoptic sermon tradition because of its ubiquity in early church discipleship. The study finishes with the conclusion that Jesus and Paul's financial thought displays remarkable symmetry which cannot be explained merely by a common cultural environment. Consequently, it is deemed highly likely that Paul depends on the dominical tradition for the contours of his financial thought.

Christian Economic Ethics

Author : Daniel K. Finn
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451452284
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Christian Economic Ethics written by Daniel K. Finn and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the history of Christian views of economic life mean for economic life in the twenty-first century? Here Daniel Finn reviews the insights provided by a large number of texts, from the Bible and the early church, to the Middle Ages and the Protestant Reformation, to treatments of the subject in the last century. Relying on both social science and theology, Finn then turns to the implications of this history for economic life today. Throughout, the book invites the reader to engage the sources and to develop an answer to the volume's basic question.

Abortion Policy and Christian Social Ethics in the United States

Author : Mako A. Nagasawa
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725271893
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Abortion Policy and Christian Social Ethics in the United States written by Mako A. Nagasawa and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s Christian pro-life movement has misplaced its priorities. The issue of abortion is more complex than the movement often appreciates. For a start, Scripture is less clear about the moral weight of the fetus than we often think. In fact, early Christians took different positions on abortion because they also relied on different scientific sources about the unborn. Furthermore, Christian conservatives today do not acknowledge that in American history, as today, Christian stances on abortion were motivated by other political fears: White Protestant Americans developed different state laws on abortion to accomplish anti-immigrant goals in the North, but anti-black racism in the South. That messiness impacts U.S. constitutional law, including Roe v. Wade. Meanwhile, Scripture commissions God’s people to confront socio-economic factors that push abortion rates higher: male privilege and the disempowerment of women; the high cost of child raising; the causes of birth defects; the desire to care narrowly for just “my children”; mistaken views about contraception and “the culture wars”; and most of all, poverty. This book incorporates biblical studies, church history, science, social science, history, and public policy to argue that we must not approach abortion policy primarily from a criminal justice standpoint, as modern conservatives do, but from a broad social and economic standpoint meant to benefit and bless all children.