Daniel C. Maguire

Democracy and the Ten Commandments

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Robert Shinkoskey is on a mission to rescue from privatized piety what Orthodox Jewish theologian Pinchas Lapide calls the 'theopolitical dynamite' in the biblical poetic narratives. Like any classic, the Bible's epic moral vision has perpetual relevance, and Shinkoskey applies it directly to contemporary national and international politics.”

Do My Prophets No Harm

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Robert Kimball Shinkoskey has shown in this remarkable book that at its core, the Bible is a bold, liberative, usually misunderstood challenge--at the very antipodes of sectarian narrowness. Israel is 'chosen' only to spread the message that all of humanity is chosen to risk the experience of life as an adventure where no moral tradition and no religion monopolizes the truth.”

Healing a Broken World

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“A signal work of modern prophecy, showing that global market capitalism functions as a religion ... deciding for us what is sacred and what is not. If taken seriously, this book can be 'good news for the poor' and for this battered earth, and it could reverse the slide of contemporary mainstream Christian churches into irrelevance.”

Healing the Racial Divide

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Good scholarship can achieve a resurrection. In this well-researched and beautifully written book, Rice retrieves from virtual oblivion a towering Catholic African American physician and hero, Arthur Falls. Falls's work is a sharp challenge to both American and Catholic ignorance of African American experience and culture.”

Is It Too Late?

Theology

“A prophet does not see the future: a prophet sees what is present and where it is leading. Cobb, a lonely prophet who, like Cassandra, saw in stunning detail more than most could accept. Now, he points us toward saving what can still be saved in the shrinking interval left to us.”

Less Than Two Dollars a Day

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“For those befuddled by the jargon of theology and economics, this very readable book is a tour de force and a most welcome gem by an outstanding expert in both fields. Like the mission of Jesus, Kent Van Til's book is 'good news for the poor' and a stirring appeal to the consciences of Christians and other persons of goodwill.”

Mutuality

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“"Dawn Nothwehr employs a corrective category, 'mutuality.' At first blush the term would seem too tender and nebulous to address the splits in our consciousness, but this theologian brings well-informed care to its definition. It becomes in her hands a critical tool which can do healing surgery on many foundational categories of Catholic theology, and indeed on much of modern thinking beyond the pale of Catholicism. Mutuality calls attention to the essential interdependency of all that is in our cosmos.”

Resisting Structural Evil

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“With a holy impatience, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda joins Jesus and the prophets of Israel by doing biblically based, analytically tough shock therapy on the corporate powers that are wrecking our earth, exploiting the poor, and blinding our eyes. It is a wake-up call to somnambulant Christians. This book is theopolitical dynamite!”

Soul in Society

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Gary Dorrien brilliantly mines the renewable moral energies of the Jewish and Christian traditions and applies them with challenging freshness to the modern economic and political order. This is prophecy for our times.”

The Moral Disciple

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“A gem of a textbook that shows how exciting ethics is and how it relates to economics, politics, the arts, and hard science.”

The Possibility of Contemporary Prophetic Acts

Theology

“The literature of biblical prophecy is a classic, and the mark of a classic is perpetual contemporaneity. In the able hands of theologian Randall Bush the spirit and words of the prophets are as relevant, livable, and urgent as if they had been written yesterday.”