Religion og etik

Verantwortung ist zum Schlüsselbegriff evangelischer Ethik geworden. Trotzdem ist die Ambivalenz der Zurechnung von Verantwortung - auch durch Ethik selbst - kaum reflektiert worden. Um dies nachzuholen, bearbeitet der Band praxissoziologische und imaginationstheoretische Kategorien für die Selbstreflexion evangelischer Ethik. Das ermöglicht es, Verantwortung als soziale Praxis zu verstehen. Die Ambivalenz dieser Praxis wird untersucht, indem systematisch der Mehrwert des Verantwortungsbegriffs insbesondere gegenüber dem Pflichtbegriff herausarbeitet wird. Dann werden Imaginationen diskutiert, die der Verantwortungsbegriff in Diskursen vor allem evangelischer Ethik konnotiert. Abschließend wird der Ansatz einer ambivalenzsensiblen, selbstreflexiven Ethik freier Verantwortung entwickelt, die endliche und fehlbare Verantwortungsübernahmen im Horizont des Unverantwortbaren orientieren soll. Der Band schlägt evangelischer Ethik einen konkreten Verantwortungsbegriff vor, zeichnet Linien der Begriffsgeschichte nach, lotet die Ambivalenzen von Verantwortungspraktiken imaginationstheoretisch aus und entwickelt Kategorien und Orientierungen für den Verantwortungsgebrauch, die gerade für Materialethiken hochrelevant sind.

In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland recounts her personal journey to dismantle the cultural ?whitemalegod? and uncover the Sacred Black Feminine, introducing a Black Female God who imbues us with hope, healing, and liberating presence.For years, Christena Cleveland spoke about racial reconciliation to congregations, justice organizations, and colleges. But she increasingly felt she could no longer trust in the God she'd been implicitly taught to worship?a white male God who preferentially empowered white men despite his claim to love all people. A God who clearly did not relate to, advocate for, or affirm a Black woman like Christena. Her crisis of faith sent her on an intellectual and spiritual journey through history and across France, on a 400-mile walking pilgrimage to the ancient shrines of Black Madonnas to find healing in the Sacred Black Feminine. God Is a Black Woman is the chronicle of her liberating transformation and a critique of a society shaped by white patriarchal Christianity and culture. Christena reveals how America's collective idea of God as a white man has perpetuated hurt, hopelessness, and racial and gender oppression. Integrating her powerful personal story, womanist ideology, as well as theological, historical, and social science research, she invites us to take seriously the truth that God is not white nor male and gives us a new and hopeful path for connecting with the divine and honoring the sacredness of all Black people.

Charges of forgery, heresy, legalism, and immorality turn on the question of whether Martin Luther taught a third use of the Law for the Christian life. For the past sixty years, well-meaning scholars believed they settled the question-with dire consequences.Friends of the Law sets forth a completely new body of evidence that shows how little Luther's teaching was understood. This new book looks at the doctrine of the Law and invites a new consensus that could change the way Christians view the Reformation and even their daily walk with God.Containsdata tablestranslations of passages not available in Englishappendicesbibliography on Law and Gospel

Christian sexual ethics operates from a place of privilege when it does not consider those impacted by its moral prescriptions. A large majority of publications on Christian sexual ethics consider choices and images abstracted from lived conditions of the people called to make these decisions. As such, it leaves out many for whom sex is neither welcome nor a choice. As such, these same texts present images of sexual subjects that marginalize those that do not fit. As the book presents, sexuality, both Christian and otherwise, prioritizes a language of purity that strangles the life of those imaged impure. The present book remedies this emphasis through the language of iconoclasm that blasphemes these images and opens theological reflection beyond the boundary of image-based approaches. Utilizing a qualitative study of survivors of trafficking and those who grew up under evangelical purity teachings, Spaulding narrates sexual ethics in light of their testimonies and the theological resources of iconoclasm to articulate a more just and loving sexuality. The new emphasis on sexual ethics not only resists the prescriptions that create the conditions of sex trafficking but the creation of new communities capable of solidarity and mutuality with those caught in the web of trafficking.

How can one speak and act in ways that overcome entrenched social conflicts? In polarized societies, some insist that the survival of democracy depends on people abiding by rules of civility and mutual respect. Others argue that the political situation is so dire that one's values need to be fought for by any means necessary. Across the political spectrum, people feel like they need to choose between the morality of dialogue and the effectiveness of protest. Beyond Civility in Social Conflict makes an important intervention in this debate. Taking insights from nonviolent direct action, it provides a model for advocacy that is both compassionate and critical. Successful communicators can help their opponents by dismantling the illusions and unjust systems that impede human flourishing and pit people against one another. The final chapter turns specifically to Christian ethics, and what it means to 'love your enemies' by disagreeing with them.

This book, The Doctrine of Prosperity, is part of a larger work that was originally written for the Swahili-speaking church. It explores in depth the origin of Prosperity, as an outcome of the God's Covenants which works by the Blessing.We scrutinize the will of God YHWH to measure the accurateness of this Doctrine. We therefore noticed only two approaches to be appropriate for the entire Swahili speaking Church to achieve this gift by grace. We also looked at Israel past and present giving many examples as of these days confirming The Doctrine of Prosperity.However, the entire Doctrine was settled under the two theological premises: that we receive our prosperity while at rest by faith, or by faith and obedience while at rest. There are much more biblical studies within, which shall change your current perspective regarding wealthy and riches for believers. Nothing you think is an opposition to this Doctrine is not analyzed, clarified, and compared to the early understandings of the Hebrew sages.

Finding parallels between the exclusion of lepers and the efforts of Christian communities to reforge kinship bonds with them in ancient and medieval times, Carlo Calleja argues that communities of kinship with older persons can help cultivate the virtues needed for the flourishing of oneself and society.

From AI to the Anthropocene, technological power has pushed human life to the limits. It's at those limits that we're faced again with the questions of who we are and how we should live. What if a study of the soil, the humus from which humanity came, could shed light on our condition? What if attending to the soil could teach us something about how we should live? In The Art of Being a Creature, Ragan Sutterfield explores these questions in conversation with the ground. Turning a compost pile while meditating on kenosis or reflecting on St. Bernard while examining fungal hyphae, Sutterfield seeks to recover the practice of humility by looking at the humus. The path toward being fully human, he finds, is not to be discovered through a spiritual seeking in the heavens, but through a pilgrimage to the soil beneath our feet. Anyone who reads The Art of Being a Creature will never see the soil, or their life upon it, the same again.

At se og leve livet gennem forundringens prisme er både en gave og en viljesakt. Livet er stort og småt, højt og lavt, forunderligt og forfærdeligt. Men det ligger altid lige der foran os, og det er op til os, hvordan vi tager imod det.Anna-Marie Hansen ser med livsduelighedens blik det store i det små og det små i det store. Hun tager læseren med på vandring gennem de nedslag af særlighed og almindelighed, som tilværelsen byder på. I selskab med kunst, litteratur, natur og mennesker, hun har mødt på sin vej, udfolder hun forundringens gave.