Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Ethics

Our ecological dilemmas provoke powerful emotions and deeply contested views. How should we think about them? And how can we live together, or even talk together, when we cannot listen to people who think differently?

In a lively and at times very funny book, Roger S. Gottlieb ( "A Greener Faith, This Sacred Earth, A Spirituality of Resistance") explores these questions in a collection of distinct but related philosophical short stories. Fictional characters with personalities, individual histories, and strong opinions wrestle with the meaning of life, the value of nature, animal...

In this book At Home in a Strange Land: Using the Old Testament in Christian Ethics, Andrew Sloane seeks to address this need. He outlines some of the problems that ordinary Christians face in reading the Old Testament as part of Christian Scripture and provides a framework for interpreting the Old Testament...

Das klassisch gewordene Jugendwerk Schleiermachers zur Religionsthematik, mit dem der Theologe seine schriftstellerische Wirksamkeit begann, wird hier in einer Studienausgabe der mageblichen kritischen Edition vorgelegt.

Die Studienausgabe prasentiert die Erstauflage von Schleiermachers Reden (1799) in der Textgestalt der Kritischen Gesamtausgabe (KGA I/2). Sie wird durch eine ausfuhrliche "Historische Einfuhrung" des Herausgebers eingeleitet.

-Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.-Mathew 11:28 (AKJV)

In the early 1990s, a grassroots coalition of churches in Baltimore, Maryland helped launch what would become a national movement. Joining forces with labor and low-wage worker organizations, they passed the first municipal living wage ordinance. Since then, over 144 municipalities and counties as well as numerous universities and local businesses in the United States have enacted such ordinances.

Although religious persons and organizations have been important both in the origins...