Kevin Carnahan & Scott Paeth 
Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics [PDF ebook] 
Spring/Summer 2018, Volume 38, No. 1

How did the author of the Gospel of Luke intend it to be read? In The Spiral Gospel, Rob James shows that the assumptions many modern readers bring to the text – that it claims to be historically fac …

Which socializing agents are influential in people joining terror groups? What ideologies do terror groups hold? Which aspects of societies and social contexts contribute towards groups forming and p …

Urban theology affirms the importance of context – notably the place of the city – in theological reflection. However, it has often been confined to particular contexts or theological camps and thus …

What does it mean to be an American during this time of ongoing challenges of race and sex discrimination, of violence and gross disparities in economic opportunity? And where are the activists who t …

Sacred Nature examines the crisis of environmental degradation through the prism of religious naturalism, which seeks rich spiritual engagement in a world without a god. Jerome Stone introduces stude …

Eschatology is the foundation for exploring Edward Schillebeeckx”s work. Daniel Minch provides an in-depth analysis of his hermeneutical theology, informed by access to original texts previously una …

How did the penitentiary get its name? Why did the English impose long prison sentences? Did class and economic conflict really lie at the heart of their correctional system? In a groundbreaking stud …

Studying the many ideas about how giving charity atones for sin and other rewards in late antique rabbinic literature, this volume contains many, varied, and even conflicting ideas, as the multiplici …

This book was originally published in 1858. Dr. Taylor was for ten years pastor of the Center Church in New Haven, Connecticut, before called to the Theological Chair in Yale College. These sermons w …

This book approaches the holiday of Purim as profane, freed to human use and ends, in order to consider the political legacy of the biblical story of Esther in festival and art works. Jo Carruthers e …