Issue: Ethics and morality

Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and Applications

Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and Applications

Posted by | Sep 7, 2020 | |

This uniquely inspirational and practical book explores human simulation, which is the application of computational modeling and simulation to research subjects in the humanities disciplines. It delves into the fascinating process of collaboration among experts who usually don’t have much to do with one another – computer engineers and humanities scholars – from the perspective of the humanities scholars. It also explains the process of developing models and simulations in these interdisciplinary teams.

Read More
God, Gender, Sex and Marriage

God, Gender, Sex and Marriage

Posted by | Sep 5, 2020 | |

An accessible introduction to important topics that are deeply contested within the Church of England – marriage, gender equality and sexuality. It draws on sources displaying an inclusive perspective whilst staying respectful to those who take a different view.

Read More
Free of Charge: Gi ving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace

Free of Charge: Gi ving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace

Posted by | Sep 3, 2020 | |

We are at our human best when we give and forgive.But we live in a world in which it makes little sense to do either one. In our increasingly graceless culture, where can we find the motivation to give? And how do we learn to forgive when forgiving seems counterintuitive or even futile? A deeply personal yet profoundly thoughtful book, Free of Charge explores these questions¬ – and the further questions to which they give rise – in light of God’s generosity and Christ’s sacrifice for us.

Read More
Exclusion & Embrace

Exclusion & Embrace

Posted by | Sep 2, 2020 | |

Life in the twenty-first century presents a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways of speaking that address the hatred of the other. Is there any hope of embracing our enemies? Of opening the door to reconciliation? Reaching back to the New Testament metaphor of salvation as reconciliation, Volf proposes the idea of embrace as a theological response to the problem of exclusion.

Read More
Verified by MonsterInsights