Rebecca Todd Peters
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“There has never been a more important time to be part of the solution to social injustice in our country. Faith communities are essential to transforming housing policy and helping create just housing for all. In this book, congregations concerned about the housing crisis will find a treasure trove of ideas, real-life examples, and inspiration for how to participate in making housing accessible for all. Join with Stivers to figure out how to turn your love of neighbor into a social movement that helps to build a new moral economy!”
Abortion and the Christian Tradition
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“An important new scholarly voice in the abortion debate, Kamitsuka not only forcefully engages and challenges pro-life scholarship but develops surprising new avenues for pro-choice theological discourse.”
Christians in the Public Square
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“One of the perennial questions in American public life is how to negotiate the complex relationship between religion and politics. In Christians in the Public Square, Ellen Ott Marshall offers a fresh perspective on this debate that reflects her own theological and pedagogical struggle to move beyond divisive ideological debates over complex social issues. Her goal is an engaged public discourse that offers the possibility of transforming how we express our religiosity in the public square and how we engage one another in public discourse. While her perspective as a progressive Christian is clearly grounded in the liberal theological tradition and influenced by liberation theology, her ready engagement with criticisms of these traditions reflects her methodological interest in listening to her opponents in order to understand better the locus of their disagreement. This method enables Marshall to develop relationships with people with whom she disagrees rather than to fall into stereotypical assessments of her adversaries that dehumanize and objectify them. This desire to figure out how to 'advocate a position without demonizing the person who thinks differently' is the heart of Marshall's contribution to the debates of religion and public life.”
Introduction to Christian Ethics
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“By acknowledging that conflict is at the heart of the human experience, Marshall offers a radically new and innovative approach to the task of Christian ethics, one that offers creative possibilities for deepening moral reflection. Imaginative, impassioned, practical, and imminently accessible, this book is an essential read.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In advocating for a sex-positive transformation of Christian approaches to sexual ethics, Ellison offers here a challenging and much needed discussion of many of the thorny issues that plague contemporary conversations about sexuality. By helping readers to reframe the questions, Ellison opens upentrenched debates about what is 'right' and 'wrong' to new avenues of discourse that privilege justice, human dignity, and relationships of equality and mutual respect. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in questions of human sexuality.”
ReEngaging ELCA Social Teaching on Abortion
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“is calling Christian communities to justice in the wake of Dobbs. Every Lutheran in the country needs to read this book.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“For anyone longing for an understanding of God beyond the toxic and abusive theologies of the patriarchy--this book is for you!”
The Protestant Ethic or the Spirit of Capitalism
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In the midst of a global economic crisis, Blanchard's careful analysis of the meaning and function of 'freedom' in the works of John Calvin, Adam Smith, and the Chicago School of Economics brings clarity and insight to the ethical underpinnings of a capitalist system that appears on the verge of spinning out of control. This study is a 'must read,' not only for ethicists, but for economists, bankers, businesspeople, and anyone else concerned about our collective economic future.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“"By approaching social action as a Christian practice, Ayres prompts readers to consider the ways in which social ethics is an intrinsic aspect of living a faithful Christian life. Her prompting of activists to think more theologically about how their actions deepen and nurture faith and spirituality makes this essential reading for pastors, professors, and Christian activists interested in Christian social witness.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
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