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By Walter Rauschenbusch
A Theology for the Social Gospel is undoubtedly Walter Rauschenbusch's most enduring work. It is here that Rauschenbusch, the father of the social gospel in the United States, articulates the theological roots of social activism that surged forth fro...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 8/1/1997
ISBN: 9780664257309
Format: 6x9
Pages: 308
A Political, Economic, Religious Statement
By John B. Cobb Jr., David Ray Griffin, Richard A. Falk, Catherine Keller
In this book, four distinguished scholars level a powerful critique of the rapid expansion of the emerging American empire and its oppressive and destructive political, military, and economic policies. Arguing that a global Pax Americana is internati...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 5/17/2006
ISBN: 9780664230098
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 184
By Andrew Linzey
Our treatment of animals is a gospel issue, Andrew Linzey contends, because those individuals and institutions that could have become the voice of God's most vulnerable creatures have instead justified cruelty and oppression. He offers an inspiring p...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 10/1/1999
ISBN: 9780664221935
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 180
The Public Obligation of the Professional
By William F. May
Professionals today wield an enormous public power. Collectively, their decisions affect the patient's plight, the client's fate, the student's future, the city's scape, the Earth's sustainability, the worker's fair treatment, and the durability of i...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 9/1/2001
ISBN: 9780664226718
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 296
Listening to Scripture
By Robert L. Brawley
What are the most important texts for modern Christians to read in order to arrive at responsible decisions regarding the ethics of human sexual behavior? How should those texts be translated for today's reader? How should the Bible be used in this e...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 2/1/1996
ISBN: 9780664256388
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 176
Speaking Truth to Power
By J. Deotis Roberts
A study of two of the most significant prophetic leaders in the twentieth century, J. Deotis Roberts's Bonhoeffer and King is an instructive work in theological ethics. This book considers and compares the theological reflections that guided Bonhoeff...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 12/22/2004
ISBN: 9780664226527
Format: 6x9
Pages: 176
Religion, Narrative, and Health Care Ethics
By David H. Smith
The complexities of healthcare situations often include the religious commitments of patients. They should include those of healthcare professionals as well. In this fresh approach to problems in medical ethics, contributors provide case studies, int...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 9/1/2000
ISBN: 9780664222567
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 276
By J. Philip Wogaman
J. Philip Wogaman understands the uncertainty surrounding most moral questions. He believes, however, that religious faith makes a difference in one's ethics, that Christian character is fundamental to decision-making, and that it is possible to arri...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 5/1/1989
ISBN: 9780664250041
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 196
By J. Philip Wogaman
In this revised and expanded edition of Christian Perspectives on Politics, J. Philip Wogaman updates his comprehensive discussions on the interaction of Christian ethics and American politics. Wogaman clearly and fairly analyzes the long-standing de...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 3/1/2000
ISBN: 9780664222017
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 388
By Walter Rauschenbusch
Walter Rauschenbusch was the primary architect of the Social Gospel, a movement that responded to the changing social and industrial conditions in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book, he presents h...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 1/1/1992
ISBN: 9780664253219
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 468
Faith, Family and Economic Life
By Max L. Stackhouse
Ethicist Max Stackhouse challenges libertarian and liberationist arguments that distort the nature and character of love, sexuality, and commitment. He seeks to recover a covenantal ethic, which would recapture the value of strong family relationship...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 4/1/1997
ISBN: 9780664254674
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 208
A Biblical Vision of Justice for All
By Richard A. Horsley
The Bible might seem like the last place one would look for information and guidance on economics, but in fact the Bible deals with all aspects of life. Richard Horsley's Covenant Economics explores economic issues in the Bible, offering pastors, stu...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 6/29/2009
ISBN: 9780664233952
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 216
Lessons in Public Policy from America's Heartland
By Warren R. Copeland
Warren Copeland draws from his experience of more than two decades in city politics and addresses head on the issue of Christian ethics in public service. Throughout, he animates the discussion with numerous anecdotes from his tenure in City Hall, co...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 7/20/2009
ISBN: 9780664232290
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 152
Selections from Distributive Justice and a Living Wage
By John A. Ryan
During the first half of the twentieth century, John A. Ryan developed and promoted moral arguments for reforming the economy of the United States. He was an advocate of minimum wage legislation and child labor restrictions, and he was very much invo...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 5/1/1996
ISBN: 9780664256609
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 208
The Future of Jewish and Christian Life
By Marc H. Ellis
In this book, Marc Ellis wrestles with some of the critical issues of contemporary Jewish and Christian life, in particular the issues of Jewish and Christian religiosity after Auschwitz and 1492, two events that are historical and contemporary in th...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 2/1/1994
ISBN: 9780664255015
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 176
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