The book argues that the holy family has a limited set of legal options for protection, but under current law is unlikely to receive any. Along with the basics of modern refugee law and processes, Butner raises ethical challenges to the refugee system, indicting our moral failures and daring us to make amends.
Despite heightened attention to virtue, contemporary philosophical and theological literature has failed to offer detailed analysis of how people attain and grow in the good habits we know as the virtues. Though popular literature provides instruction on attaining and growing in virtue, it lacks careful scholarly analysis of what exactly these ......
The major humanitarian crises of recent years are well known: the Shoah, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Rwandan genocide, the massacre in Bosnia, and the tsunami in Southeast Asia, as well as the bloody conflicts in South Sudan, Syria, and Afghanistan. Millions have been killed and many millions more have been driven from their homes; the ......
This book is a contribution to the Christian ethics of war and peace. It offers critical interpretations of landmark positions from the Bible and early church through the twentieth century, and advances peacebuilding as a needed challenge to and expansion of the traditional framework of just-war theory and pacifism.
A thoughtful exploration of the interrelationship of the Bible and ethics, describing the challenges of taking the Bible seriously in the ethical life, the profound changes in global Christianity in the postcolonial and increasingly globalized world, religious pluralism in our cities, and the urgent realities of climate change
Examines why so many are leaving religion, and what that means for American society One of the largest changes in American culture over the last fifty years has been the increase in people exiting religion. Goodbye Religion explores why there has been such an upswing among those who identify as nonreligious, and what the societal implications ......
Recovers the religious origins of the War on Drugs Many people view the War on Drugs as a contemporary phenomenon invented by the Nixon administration. But as this new book shows, the conflict actually began more than a century before, when American Protestants began the temperance movement and linked drug use with immorality. Christian ......
Risk, Anxiety, and Prudence in an Age of Algorithmic Governance
Moral theologian Paul Scherz uses a theological analysis of risk and reason to suggest ways to enjoy the positive benefits of predictive technologies while constraining their dangers. Instead of dwelling on a future we cannot control, we can use our past experiences and Christian tradition to focus on discerning God's will in the present.
Persons with disability make up at least 15 percent of the global population, yet disability is widely unacknowledged and unexplored in theology. Moreover, many people join this minority community in their lifetimes through compromises to their health due to aging or accident. However, too few people without immediate experience of persons with ......
