Biblical Ethics and Social Change

Biblical Ethics and Social Change
Title Biblical Ethics and Social Change PDF eBook
Author Stephen Mott Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 262
Release 2011-03-23
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0199857695

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This scholarly synthesis of biblical studies and Christian social ethics is designed to provide a biblical argument for intentional institutional change on behalf of social justice. Stephen Charles Mott provides a biblical and ethical guide on ways to implement that change. The first part of the book, providing the biblical theology of intentional social change, deals with the central concepts in biblical and theological ethics: grace, evil, love, justice, and the Reign of God. Christian social change must be rooted not only in justice, but in the grace received through the death and resurrection of Christ. The second part evaluates ethical and theological methods for carrying out that intentional social change. It offers a study of evangelism, counter community, civil disobedience, armed revolution, and political reform. It shows the contribution of each as well as the strong limitations of each used in isolation. A recurring theme of the book is the scriptural insistence on the priority of justice as taking upon oneself the cause of the oppressed. Justice is understood on bringing back into the community those who are near to falling out of it. Political authority has a vital role in social change for justice. It is essential that a Christian use all available and legitimate means of meeting basic needs by providing for all what is essential for inclusion in society. In this revised edition, Mott updates the contemporary illustrations and includes his own further reflections in the last thirty years on this topic.

Biblical Ethics and Social Change

Biblical Ethics and Social Change
Title Biblical Ethics and Social Change PDF eBook
Author Stephen Mott
Publisher OUP USA
Pages 261
Release 2011-03-23
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0199739374

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For the past thirty years, Biblical Ethics and Social Change has provided a keenly insightful biblical argument for intentional institutional change on behalf of social justice. Stephen Charles Mott shows how central concepts in biblical and theological ethics-grace, evil, love, justice, and the Reign of God-figure into social change, arguing that Christian social change must be rooted not only in justice but in the grace received through the death and resurrection of Christ. Mott also uses ethics, scripture, and theology to evaluate methods for carrying out that intentional social change, through examination of the complex roles of evangelism, countercommunity, civil disobedience, armed revolution, and political reform. He argues that change can only be brought about by taking upon oneself the cause of the oppressed and by using all available and legitimate means of meeting basic needs by providing for all what is essential for inclusion in society. This revised second edition contains Mott's further reflections on the topic and updates its applications to contemporary social life. Book jacket.

Biblical Ethics and Social Change

Biblical Ethics and Social Change
Title Biblical Ethics and Social Change PDF eBook
Author Stephen Mott
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 261
Release 2011-03-23
Genre Religion
ISBN 0199876436

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This scholarly synthesis of biblical studies and Christian social ethics is designed to provide a biblical argument for intentional institutional change on behalf of social justice. Stephen Charles Mott provides a biblical and ethical guide on ways to implement that change. The first part of the book, providing the biblical theology of intentional social change, deals with the central concepts in biblical and theological ethics: grace, evil, love, justice, and the Reign of God. Christian social change must be rooted not only in justice, but in the grace received through the death and resurrection of Christ. The second part evaluates ethical and theological methods for carrying out that intentional social change. It offers a study of evangelism, counter community, civil disobedience, armed revolution, and political reform. It shows the contribution of each as well as the strong limitations of each used in isolation. A recurring theme of the book is the scriptural insistence on the priority of justice as taking upon oneself the cause of the oppressed. Justice is understood on bringing back into the community those who are near to falling out of it. Political authority has a vital role in social change for justice. It is essential that a Christian use all available and legitimate means of meeting basic needs by providing for all what is essential for inclusion in society. In this revised edition, Mott updates the contemporary illustrations and includes his own further reflections in the last thirty years on this topic.

Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life

Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life
Title Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life PDF eBook
Author Bruce C. Birch
Publisher Fortress Press
Pages 318
Release 2018-05-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 1451438540

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Earth is changing in ways it hasn't for hundreds of thousands of years. At the same time, Christianity is breaking away from its millennium-long geographical and cultural center in the Euro-West. Its growth is in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, primarily in Pentecostal, evangelical, and independent churches. These dramatically changed planetary and ecclesial landscapes have led many to conclude that we need a new way of thinking about our collective existence: who are we and what is the nature of our responsibility in this deeply altered world? To address that question, biblical scholars Bruce C. Birch and Jacqueline E. Lapsley and Christian ethicists Larry L. Rasmussen and Cynthia Moe-Lobeda carry on "a new conversation" that engages how Christians are to understand the authority and use of Scripture, the basic elements of any full-bodied Christian ethic attuned to our circumstances, and the nature of our responsibility to our planetary neighbors and creation itself.

Biblical Ethics and Social Change

Biblical Ethics and Social Change
Title Biblical Ethics and Social Change PDF eBook
Author Stephen Charles Mott
Publisher OUP USA
Pages 272
Release 1982-04-15
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780195029482

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In this book, the author provides a thorough treatment of the biblical basis for implementing social change.

An Introduction to Christian Ethics

An Introduction to Christian Ethics
Title An Introduction to Christian Ethics PDF eBook
Author Alberto de Mingo Kaminouchi
Publisher Liturgical Press
Pages 216
Release 2020-10-20
Genre Religion
ISBN 0814688128

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2021 Catholic Media Association Award first place award in morality, ethics, christology, mariology, and redemption What does it mean to live and build up the Kingdom of God? In this book, professor and priest Alberto de Mingo Kaminouchi introduces the contemporary reader to Christian ethics by examining the New Testament through the three key concepts of Aristotle’s ethics: happiness, virtue, and love. In turn, the three affirmations orient this reflection through the Gospel. First, when the triune God appears on the horizon, it becomes easier to understand that existence has a purpose: namely, participating with the entire human family in this project of happiness called the Kingdom of God. Second, happiness is not something outside of us; it consists in the practice of the virtues that bring about a personal transformation. Third, the project of the Kingdom leads us to live in love with others. De Mingo Kaminouchi shows the reader a real model of this in the community we call the church, the “field hospital” for all those in need of hope. This book is accessibly written for readers not already well-versed in Christian ethics.

Christian Ethics

Christian Ethics
Title Christian Ethics PDF eBook
Author Norman L. Geisler
Publisher Baker Academic
Pages 448
Release 2010
Genre Religion
ISBN 0801038790

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This update of a classic text evaluates contemporary ethical options and pressing issues of the day from a biblical perspective.