James F. Childress
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Lloyd Steffen has assembled a superb reader on abortion. It includes the most important religious and ethical discussions of this complex and divisive subject, and many different audiences should find it quite valuable. I look forward to an opportunity to use it in my own teaching.”
Bioethics and Secular Humanism
Philosophy
“Englehardt at his best--and that's outstanding. In the current debate about the role of religion and reason in bioethics, Engelhadt's examination of the possibilities and limitations of secular humanism in bioethics is important. While stressing the limitations of secular humanism as a content-full position, he defends it as a 'content-less perspective for peaceable negotiation among moral strangers.' His central thesis is compelling, and he argues for it in a provocative, imaginative and rigorous way. This profound book deserves a wide audience, and I recommend it with great enthusiasm.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Blessed Are the Peacemakers is a remarkable book. It provides clear and compelling analyses and assessments of major positions in Christian ethics toward war and peace. For many years, my graduate students in seminars on just war and pacifism greatly benefited from Cahill’s earlier Love Your Enemies. This new book has all the strengths of its predecessor, and, in addition, it enriches and enlivens discourse about war and peace by highlighting and promoting peacebuilding. I enthusiastically recommend it.”
Science & Faith
“James Peterson has performed a valuable public service with his clear, well-informed, and instructive theological and ethical reflection on applied human genetics, including genetic interventions. This book should be widely read and pondered.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Alastair Campbell's Health as Liberation is very powerful. Taking the perspective of liberation thought and praxis, Campbell helpfully redirects our attention to health as an aspect of freedom, to the many voices of illness, and to the social structures that thwart and promote health. This clear and compelling book will be of great interest to secular as well as to theological audiences, and I enthusiastically recommend it.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“I enthusiastically commend John Kilner's Life on the Line. It offers a very careful and helpful interpretation of a Christian ethics as God-centered, reality-bounded, and love-impelled and then uses this framework to illuminate two major contemporary problems in health care — ending patients' lives and allocating vital resources. In this book Kilner makes a major contribution to Christian ethics, particularly in its application to health care.”
Philosophy
“Perplexity in the Moral Life is an excellent book. It deals in a lucid and subtle way with an important theological and philosophical issue, and it presents a careful, sustained, and compelling argument that in Christian ethics perplexity is a problem of moral knowledge rather than a problem of real moral dilemmas that cannot be resolved. It deserves the widest possible attention in theological and philosophical ethics.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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