Disruptive Faith, Inclusive Communities: Church and Homophobia
Edited by George Zachariah, V. Rajkumar
Even though the majority of the Indian Christian community still considers sexuality as a divine vocation to be regulated within the heterosexual (patriarchal) families, there are discordant voices coming from the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer (LGBTQ) communities and their allies contesting the heterosexist and homophobic theological understanding of human sexuality, family, and marriage.
Serving Jesus With Integrity : Ethics and Accountability in Mission (Evangelical Missiological Society)
The word “ethics” carries an aura of countervailing views, overlapping claims, uncertain footing, and seductive attractions. Some issues are as clear as the horizontal versus vertical axes in Sawai Chinnawong’s striking painting, Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife, that graces the cover of this book. At the same time—because we are involved, because our interests, our inclinations, our plans and relationships are at stake—the issues that engage missionary practitioners can be frustratingly labyrinthine, curling endlessly back on themselves. Evangelical missionaries and mission agencies are concerned about personal morality—and rightly so. But as the chapters in this volume attest, evangelical mission’s ethical engagement extends far beyond simply avoiding compromising sexual situations and not absconding with the finances. How should we talk about others’ beliefs and practices to ourselves? To them? How should we represent ourselves to others? What role does tolerance for ambiguity play in missionaries’ mental preparation? How should accountability be structured in intercultural partnerships? Are there ways to enable organizational justice to flourish in mission institutions? What might integrity in short-term mission outreach look like? How does care for creation relate to mission? What role can a code of ethics for missionary practice play? Limited and fallible and marred by the fall, we need both guidance and admonition—and deep reflection on the conduct of evangelical mission such as is provided in this volume—so that we may serve Jesus with true integrity.
T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Ethics
Tobias Winright (Anthology Editor)
The T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Ethics provides an ecumenical introduction to Christian ethics, its sources, methods, and applications. With contributions by theological ethicists known for their excellence in scholarship and teaching, the essays in this volume offer fresh purchase on, and an agenda for, the discipline of Christian ethics in the 21st century.
The essays are organized in three sections, following an introduction that presents the four-font approach and elucidates why it is critically employed through these subsequent sections. The first section explores the sources of Christian ethics, including each of the four fonts: scripture, tradition, experience, and reason.
The second section examines fundamental or basic elements of Christian ethics and covers different methods, approaches, and voices in doing Christian ethics, such as natural law, virtue ethics, conscience, responsibility, narrative, worship, and engagement with other religions.
The third section addresses current moral issues in politics, medicine, economics, ecology, criminal justice and other related spheres from the perspective of Christian ethics, including war, genetics, neuroethics, end-of-life decisions, marriage, family, work, sexuality, nonhuman animals, migration, aging, policing, incarceration, capital punishment, and more.
T&T Clark Reader in Abortion and Religion – Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives
Edited by Rebecca Todd Peters (Volume Editor) , Margaret D. Kamitsuka (Volume Editor)
This volume introduces students to the history of cultural and theological responses to abortion as background for understanding a diversity of ethical positions in contemporary Christian, Jewish, and Muslim writings. Politicized debates about abortion are often presented in terms of a binary rhetoric of prolife versus prochoice; however, this collection of essays shows how that binary often breaks down when abortion is seen from different religious perspectives and in light of the voices of women themselves.
While abortion is a global phenomenon, this volume focuses on the U.S. context. American abortion politics and culture wars have been dominated by Christian voices; nevertheless, Jewish and Muslim abortion ethics engage many of the same issues from different cultural and religious perspectives. Finally, this volume presents important examples of recent social scientific studies about the relationship of religion and abortion in the diverse cultural, racial, and economic fabric of American society.
CHRISTIAN MORAL THEOLOGY SERIES (VOL 1 TO 6)
Volume – I INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN MORAL THEOLOGY – ISBN : 978-81-89851-60-6 (Size: 14 cms x 22 cms Weight: 375
Doing Asian Theological Ethics – In a Cross-Cultural and an Interreligious Context
Editors:
Yiu Sing Lucas Chan- James F. Keenan- Shaji George Kochuthara
Feminist Catholic Theological Ethics:Conversation in the World Church
Editors
Linda F. Hogan,A.E. Orobator
Indian Moral Theology: Historical Studies and Future Prospects
Edited by
Mathew Illathuparampil