Rebecca Peters

Rebecca Todd Peters is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and is currently serving as a member of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches. She is the author of the award-winning In Search of the Good Life: The Ethics of Globalization and coeditor of Justice in a Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community and World.

A Guide for Progressive Christians
Encouraging Christians to call for public policies that benefit those most vulnerable in our nation, To Do Justice offers tools for studying complex domestic social problems such as Social Security, immigration, the environment, and public education, and serves as a guidebook to becoming involved in social action. Rooted in Christian tradition, each essay analyzes a contemporary problem from social, biblical, and theological perspectives before providing directions for public p...
Price: $24.00
Publication Date: 06/02/2008
Strategies for Home, Community, and World
Today's complex social and economic problems leave many people in the affluent world feeling either overwhelmed or ambivalent. Even the small percentage of us who have examined the ethics behind our financial decisions and overcome the often-deterring factors of self-interest rarely know what to do to make any difference. By providing tools for examination and concrete actions for individuals, communities, and society at large, Justice in a Global Economy guides its readers thr...
Price: $33.00
Publication Date: 07/31/2006
Feminist Social Ethics
Beverly Harrison has long fought for women and others at the margins, challenging the subjugating ways in which women's intellectual contributions, their gifts of ministerial leadership, and their reproductive capacity and sexual identity have been defined. This collection of essays and lectures, presented over the course of her career, demonstrates the progression of Harrison's contribution to the field of Christian ethics and the evolution of her thought in response to changing s...
Price: $50.00
Publication Date: 10/01/2004