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Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach, Third Edition
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Donna Yarri
When God's People Have HIV/AIDS: An Approach to Ethics; Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis
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Rights of Passage:
The Ethics of Forced Displacement
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CONTEMPORARY HUMANITARIAN CRISES UNDERSCORE WHAT HANNAH Arendt called the "perplexities" of human rights; the very category "refugee" attests the failure of the global rights regime. Indeed, the "abstract nakedness of being nothing but human" belies the "right to have rights." In light of this criticism, I offer a reconstructive, communitarian interpretation of the rights of the forcibly displaced. The grammar of rights, I argue, presumes the communicative virtues of respect and recognition of the "concrete other." I conclude by showing how biblical narrative "re-inscribes" stateless persons/strangers precisely as neighbor (Lev. 19:18, 33—34) in "anamnestic solidarity."
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Sohail H. Hashmi
RESPONSE TO REPONSES TO: "Cultivating a Liberal Islamic Ethos, Building an Islamic Civil Society"
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Laura Stivers
A Sense of Place in a Globalized World:
Place-Based Organizing for Corporate Accountability
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AN EMPHASIS ON LABOR MOBILITY AS WELL AS THE EXPENDABILITY OF people and the environment in late-stage capitalism prompts my exploration of rootedness to place as one value that can inform how we more justly construct our economies. I argue that rootedness to place is important for many people, while also noting the dangers of romanticizing the notion of place and/or using it to justify exclusion or oppression. In this essay, I theologically reflect on our connections to both ecological and human communities of a place, and argue that these connections should be guided by justice. Then I show how communities have promoted social and environmental justice by organizing to hold corporations accountable to particular places.
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Belmont Revisited: Ethical Principles for Research with Human Subjects
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Moral Creativity: Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of Possibility
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Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning; Murdering Myths: The Story behind the Death Penalty
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Facing Terrorism: Responding as Christians
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Grace Y. Kao
"One Nation under God" Or Taking the Lord's Name in Vain?:
Christian Reflections on the Pledge of Allegiance
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BY EXPLORING THE ONGOING CONTROVERSY WHETHER TEACHER-LED recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is constitutional, this paper demonstrates how and why Christians have much to gain from reverting the pledge to its pre-1954 text. I expose critical weaknesses in recent strategies to retain the contested words "under God" in the pledge employed by litigants, amici curiae ("friends of the court"), several Supreme Court justices, and other interested parties. I additionally interrogate the prominent place the American flag holds in public life and question whether such preoccupation rises to the level of fetishism or even idolatry. Finally, I conclude that pacifists and others who are critical of America's expanding military empire have good reason to reject the Pledge of Allegiance entirely, whether or not the nation is described as being "under God."
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Volunteers and Incentives:
Buying the Bodies of the Poor
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IN RESPONSE TO A SPREADING RECRUITMENT CRISIS AMONG THE ARMY, National Guard, and Army Reserve during the first half of 2005, the Pentagon sought to bolster combat volunteers for Iraq by offering a wide array of enlistment and reenlistment bonuses. This use of financial incentives to recruit bodies for the Iraq war echoed earlier White House efforts to induce nations to join the "coalition of the willing" by offering aid and trade packages, and paralleled the Pentagon's decision to outsource twenty thousand military jobs in Iraq to private military firms. When democratic nations seek to garner support for unpopular wars by offering financial incentives to those who serve in combat, they run the risk of exploiting the poor and undermining the moral legitimacy of their authority to wage war.
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After Baptism: Shaping the Christian Life
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Cultivating a Liberal Islamic Ethos, Building an Islamic Civil Society
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MUSLIM STATES HAVE BEEN CHARACTERIZED AS SUFFERING FROM A "democratic deficit." A wide-ranging debate has been taking place for many years on whether Islam is somehow to blame for the troubled history of liberal democracy in the Muslim world. This essay argues that if liberal democratic polities are to develop in Muslim countries, then nurturing civil society is a necessary first step. How can Islamic ethics help or hinder this process?
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Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict (Expanded and Updated)
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Apocalypse Now? Reflections on Faith in a Time of Terror
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William Werpehowski
Practical Wisdom and the Integrity of Christian Life
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THEOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED, THE VIRTUE OF PRUDENCE OR PRACTICAL wisdom disposes a moral agent to "reason rightly about things to be done" insofar as the acts of counsel, judgment, and command enable both the discernment and the embodiment of moral reality in the world created and redeemed by God in Jesus Christ. In that world, Christians live and act as both sinful and righteous, and they find their integrity and maturity in an ongoing practice of repentance, renewal, and perseverance.
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Offending, Restoration, and the Law-Abiding Community:
Restorative Justice in the New Testament and in the New Zealand Experience
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DURING THE PAST THIRTY YEARS, A GROWING CONVERSATION ABOUT THE "restorative" dimensions of justice in contrast to its "retributive" dimensions in addressing crime, wrongdoing, and cultural conflict has emerged around the world. In New Zealand, an initiative known as Family Group Conferencing has virtually replaced the conventional juvenile justice that preceded it. This initiative has inspired many people around the world to adapt that restorative approach in many different settings.
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God's Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics
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John Howard Yoder: Mennonite Patience, Evangelical Witness, Catholic Convictions
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