Issue: Ethics and morality

Created Co-creator: An Alternative to Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism

Created Co-creator: An Alternative to Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism

Posted by | Sep 1, 2020 | |

Nature somehow complements the lives of human beings. Non-human world help human beings to actualize their potentialities and possibilities. But now a days nature is being ruthlessly exploited by human beings. To amass wealth, human beings exploit non-human world and its resources without considering nature’s demand. It instigates catastrophic incidents like ozone depletion, green gas effect etc. To resolve or even to justify such problems human beings tried to view nature from human being centered perspective. In contrast, a group of people tried to find ways to settle those issues by interpreting events from nature’s perspective.

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Conflict, Holiness and Politics in the Teachings of Jesus

Conflict, Holiness and Politics in the Teachings of Jesus

Posted by | Sep 1, 2020 | |

Originally published in 1984, this extraordinary work has until now been available only in an expensive library edition. The present edition has been completely updated and redesigned, and includes an extended new introduction by Marcus Borg that relates the book’s central arguments to subsequent Jesus scholarship.

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Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

Posted by | Sep 1, 2020 | |

This Very Short Introduction to Christian ethics introduces the topic by examining its sources and historical basis. D. Stephen Long presents a discussion of the relationship between Christian ethics, modern, and postmodern ethics, and explores practical issues including sex, money, and power. Long recognises the inherent difficulties in bringing together ‘Christian’ and ‘ethics’ but argues that this is an important task for both the Christian faith and for ethics.

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Amidst Mass Atrocity and the Rubble of Theology

Amidst Mass Atrocity and the Rubble of Theology

Posted by | Aug 22, 2020 | |

It is hubris to claim answers to unanswerable questions. Such questions, however—as part of their burden and worth—must still be asked, investigated, and contemplated. How there can be a loving, all-powerful God and a world stymied by suffering and evil is one of the unanswerable questions we must all struggle to answer, even as our responses are closer to gasps, silences, and further questions. More importantly, how and whether one articulates a response will have deep, lasting repercussions for any belief in God and in our judgments upon one another.

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A Way Other Than Our Own

A Way Other Than Our Own

Posted by | Aug 22, 2020 | |

Lent recalls times of wilderness and wandering, from newly freed Hebrew slaves in exile to Jesus’ temptation in the desert. God has always called people out of their safe, walled cities into uncomfortable places, revealing paths they would never have chosen. Despite our culture of self-indulgence, we too are called to walk an alternative path—one of humility, justice, and peace. Walter Brueggemann’s thought-provoking reflections for the season of Lent invite us to consider the challenging, beautiful life that comes with walking the way of grace.

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