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Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Release : 1983
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Until Justice and Peace Embrace by : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Download or read book Until Justice and Peace Embrace written by Nicholas Wolterstorff. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the structure of the modern social order and examines the Christian's proper goals of working for peace and justice.
Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Release : 1983-09-01
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Book Synopsis Until Justice and Peace Embrace by : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Download or read book Until Justice and Peace Embrace written by Nicholas Wolterstorff. This book was released on 1983-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Release : 2010-05-02
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Justice by : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Download or read book Justice written by Nicholas Wolterstorff. This book was released on 2010-05-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging and ambitious, Justice combines moral philosophy and Christian ethics to develop an important theory of rights and of justice as grounded in rights. Nicholas Wolterstorff discusses what it is to have a right, and he locates rights in the respect due the worth of the rights-holder. After contending that socially-conferred rights require the existence of natural rights, he argues that no secular account of natural human rights is successful; he offers instead a theistic account. Wolterstorff prefaces his systematic account of justice as grounded in rights with an exploration of the common claim that rights-talk is inherently individualistic and possessive. He demonstrates that the idea of natural rights originated neither in the Enlightenment nor in the individualistic philosophy of the late Middle Ages, but was already employed by the canon lawyers of the twelfth century. He traces our intuitions about rights and justice back even further, to Hebrew and Christian scriptures. After extensively discussing justice in the Old Testament and the New, he goes on to show why ancient Greek and Roman philosophy could not serve as a framework for a theory of rights. Connecting rights and wrongs to God's relationship with humankind, Justice not only offers a rich and compelling philosophical account of justice, but also makes an important contribution to overcoming the present-day divide between religious discourse and human rights.
Author : Douglas J. Schuurman
Release : 2004
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 371/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Vocation by : Douglas J. Schuurman
Download or read book Vocation written by Douglas J. Schuurman. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Protestant doctrine of vocation has had a profound influence on American culture, but in recent years central tenets of this doctrine have come under assault. Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life explores current responses to the classic view of vocation and offers a revised statement and application of this doctrine for contemporary North American Christians. According to Douglas Schuurman, many Christians today find it both strange and difficult to interpret their social, economic, political, and cultural lives as responses to God's calling. To renew this biblical perspective, Schuurman argues, Christians must recover the language, meaning, and reality of life as vocation, and his book helps do just that. Developed in dialogue with audiences as diverse as college students, industrial workers, business leaders, church leaders, and professional theologians and ethicists, the book examines the theological and ethical dimensions of vocation as these have been understood historically and in relation to our modern social setting.
Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Release : 2011-01-10
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Hearing the Call by : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Download or read book Hearing the Call written by Nicholas Wolterstorff. This book was released on 2011-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the Word of the Lord for a world of injustice? What does it mean to hear the cries of the oppressed? What does liturgy have to do with justice? These questions have been at the heart of Nicholas Wolterstorff s work for over forty years. In this collection of essays, he brings together personal, historical, theological, and contemporary perspectives to issue a passionate call to work for justice and peace. An essential complement to his now classic Until Justice and Peace Embrace, the forthcoming Love and Justice, and Justice, this book makes clear why Wolterstorff is one of the church s most incisive and compelling voices. Between the Times invites us not simply into new ways of thinking, but a transformational way of life.
