Moral issues and Christian responses / [edited by] Patricia Beattie Jung, Shannon Jung.
| Other author | Jung, Patricia Beattie. |
| Other author | Jung, L. Shannon (Loyle Shannon), 1943- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 7th ed. |
| Publication Info | Australia ; Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, ©2003. |
| Description | xvi, 463 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The eclipse of love for God / Edward Collins Vacek -- The market as God / Harvey Cox -- The church and politics: hot and cool connections / Robert Benne -- What does it mean to take Washington, D.C. seriously / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Biblical authority / Walter Brueggemann -- The voice of women in moral theology / Marie Vianney Bilgrien -- Theology as soul-craft / Stanley Hauerwas -- The church and marriage: looking for a new ethic / Jean Ponder Soto -- Common decency: a new Christian sexual ethics / Marvin Ellison -- Love your enemy: sex, power, and Christian ethics / Karen Lebacqz -- Losing our promiscuity / Paula Rinehart -- When does Christian marriage begin? before or after the wedding / Adrian Thatcher -- The church and the family crisis: a new love ethic / Don S. Browning and Carol Browning -- Make love and babies / Sam Torode and Bethany Torode -- Christian responses to the Human Genome Project / Cynthia S.W. Crysdale -- Presuppositions to moral judgments on human genetic manipulation / James J. Walter -- Stem cells: a bioethical balancing act / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Cloning and the human family: theology after Dolly / Allen Verhey -- The new reproductive technologies: defying God's dominion / Maura Anne Ryan -- Womb-love / Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner -- 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 -- In search of the perfect child: genetic testing and selective abortion / Ted Peters -- The case for physician assisted suicide / James F. Keenan -- Issues in contemporary Christian ethics: the choice of death in a medical context / Margaret A. Farley -- 'The curtain only rises': assisted death and the practice of baptism / Martha Ellen Stortz -- Diversity and community / U.S. Conference of Religions for Peace -- Black dignity and the common good / Glenn C. Loury -- Race matters / Cornell West -- Struggling against racism with realism and hope / Gayraud S. Wilmore -- When body meets soul / Julie Polter -- What do women want? a conservative feminist manifesto / Katherine Kersten -- The sin of servanthood and the deliverance of discipleship / Jacqueline Grant -- Sources for body theology: homosexuality as a test case / James B. Nelson -- The homosexual movement: a response / The Ramsey Colloquium -- Homosexuality, marriage, and the church: a conversation / David Heim, Luke Timothy Johnson, David McCarthy Matzko, Max L. Stackhouse -- The moral debate between humanitarianism and national interest about U.S. refugee policy: a theological perspective / Dana Wilbanks -- Mi casa no es su casa / Aurora Camacho de Schmidt -- The coming immigration debate: an Englishman takes an alarmed look at a quintessentially American issue / Jack Miles -- Toward an ethic of ecojustice / James B. Martin-Schramm -- The challenge of biocentrism / Thomas Sieger Derr -- Is eco-justice central to Christian faith? / Larry L. Rasmussen -- A light in the darkness / Jim Wallis -- Is this just war? / Lisa Sowle Cahill and Michael Baxter, C.S.C. -- Terrorism and religions / H.S. Wilson -- Just a little bit more: greed and the malling of our souls / Robert C. Roberts -- John Wesley, process theology, and consumerism / Jay McDaniel and John L. Farthing -- When generosity is not enough / Ellen T. Charry -- Catholic social teaching: a communitarian democratic capitalism for the new world order / Oliver F. Williams, C.S.C. -- To have and have not: notes on the progress of the American class war / Michael Lind -- Christian theology and development / Gnana Robinson -- Social ethics in a post-socialist World / Peter L. Berger -- Contemporary globalization: an ethical and anthropological evaluation / Thomas R. Rourke. |
| Abstract | [The] intention in this [book] is to provide [an] introduction to contemporary moral issues, an introduction that combines an overview of current events with Christian moral interpretations. [This] text [is] for undergraduate courses in ethics, moral problems, church and society, and comparative religious ethics ... The perspectives of both men and women of faith are represented. Evangelical, Roman Catholic, Reformed, Lutheran, Radical Reformation, and other Protestant church perspectives are included.-Pref. |
| General note | Revised edition of: Moral issues and Christian response. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-465) and index. |
| LCCN | 2002103735 |
| ISBN | 0155058959 |
| ISBN | 9780155058958 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | BJ1251 .J86 2003 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |