…and the ought. Christian social ethics takes social scientific data as its starting point, prior to engaging in moral analysis grounded in Christian scripture, tradition, and sources of “reason” such…
…the best-known verses in the Christian Scriptures: John 3:16. Readers who grew up in the church probably recognize this passage as one that pastors and Sunday school teachers quoted, likely…
…and, in turn, insist that elected officials play a significant role in fulfilling that responsibility. Of course, our electorate accepts responsibility for very little when it comes to politics. Why…
…The Rendering of God in the Old Testament, Old Testament Law: An Introduction, (with Allen Scult)Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation, andThe Rhetoric of Revelation in Hebrew Scripture, and now Redeeming Judgment….
…theology – scripture, tradition, reason, and experience – emergent theology begins with the last of these. The turn to ethnography and oral narrative on the part of some mujerista and…
…second argument used by Wuerl and his brother bishops is that racism violates the human solidarity established by the redemptive work of Jesus Christ in his Church. Employing oft-quoted Scripture…
…contributors, and readers were not concerned with race and civil rights. They simply insisted that the scriptures – and indeed the gospel itself – did not provide warrant to disrupt…
…of cultures in this era heighten the need for integrity. As long as people gather there are politics and as long as there are politics integrity will be the truss…
…(e.g. Isaiah 64:1) and Christian (e.g. Revelation 6:14) scriptures. The heavens of the Biblical world were not the fluffy clouds, golden gates, and fat winged-babies of the contemporary Western imaginary….
…to us. And today His Holiness has become one of us in prison, as he appropriated for himself the words from Holy Scripture, the Letter of St. Paul to the…
…the Israelites no longer had manna; they ate the crops of the land of Canaan that year. This week’s lectionary text from the Hebrew Scriptures alights briefly (only four verses)…
…What here prevails is indeed a special kind of politics, theopolitics, which is concerned to establish a certain people in a certain historical situation under the divine sovereignty, so that…