Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics

by Lisa Sowle Cahill

Overview

Global realities of human inequality, poverty, violence and ecological destruction call for a twenty-first-century Christian response which links cross-cultural and interreligious cooperation for change to the Gospel. This book demonstrates why just action is necessarily a criterion of authentic Christian theology, and gives grounds for Christian hope that change in violent structures is really possible. Lisa Sowle Cahill argues that theology and biblical interpretation are already embedded in and indebted to ethical-political practices and choices. Within this ecumenical study, she explores the use of the historical Jesus in constructive theology; the merits of Word and Spirit Christologies; the importance of liberation and feminist theologies as well as theologies from the global south; and also the possibility of qualified moral universalism. The book will be of great interest to all students of theology, religious ethics and politics, and biblical studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107515321
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/09/2015
Series:	New Studies in Christian Ethics
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Lisa Sowle Cahill is J. Donald Monan, SJ, Professor of Theology at Boston College. Her most recent publications include Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics (Cambridge, 1996), Bioethics and the Common Good (2004) and Theological Bioethics: Participation, Justice and Change (2005). She is currently a member of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, the Advisory Board of the Public Religion Research Institute, the Board of Directors of the international journal Concilium and the Catholic Peacebuilding Network.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The politics of salvation; 2. Creation and evil; 3. Kingdom of God; 4. Christ; 5. Spirit; 6. Cross; 7. Nature; 8. Hope; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"This important book bridges prevalent divisions between ethics, systematic theology, and biblical studies … Students of Christian theology and ethics will find this book demonstrates that one can methodologically bridge ethics, theology, and biblical studies. It will also be useful for advanced undergraduate and graduate student seminars in theology and ethics … Recommended …"
A. W. Klink, Choice

"… a sincere, intellectually astute, generous, humble, creative, reconciling foray into Scripture, theology and philosophy …"
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