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Book SynopsisThe Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics continues to be an essential resource for students and faculty pursuing the latest developments in Christian and religious ethics, publishing refereed scholarly articles on a variety of topics. The Journal also contains book reviews of the latest scholarship in the field.
Table of ContentsPreface Selected Essays Detroit: Still, the "Other" America Gloria Albrecht Reconsidering Little Rock: Hannah Arendt, Martin Luther King Jr., and Catholic Social Thought on Children and Families in the Struggle for JusticeChristine Firer Hinze Scriptural Reasoning and the Problem of Metaphysics: Insights for Argument in Liberal DemocracyBrett Wilmot Waging Religious Ethics: Living Wages and Framing Public Religious EthicsC. Melissa Snarr Heroes, Suicides, and Moral DiscernmentChristine Gudorf Saving "Citizen" Ryan: Supporting a Just War or Just Supporting the Troops?Patrick T. McCormick Coping with Multiple Uncertainties: A Jewish Perspective on Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer and Prophylactic InterventionsMark Popovsky Human Health and Environmental Health Are Interdependent: Removing an Unnatural Partition within Christian BioethicsRichard O. RandolphMedicine as Friendship with God: Anointing the Sick as a Theological HermeneuticM. Therese Lysaught The Deliberative Practices of Aesthetic Experience: Reconsidering the Moral Functionality of ArtKi Joo Choi Within Reason: The Epistemic Foundations of Catholic and Muslim Arguments for Political LiberalismElizabeth A. Barre Book Reviews From Human to Posthuman: Christian Theology and Technology in a Postmodern World, Brent Waters Handbook of Latina/o Theologies, Edwin David Aponte and Miguel A. De La Torre, editors Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality: Religion and Cultural Bias in the Oregon Physician-Assisted Suicide Debates, Robert P. Jones Lutheran Ethics at the Intersections of God's One World, Karen L. Bloomquist, editorNature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of Natural Law, Jean Porter Child Poverty: Love, Justice, and Social Responsibility, Pamela Couture; and Attending Children: A Doctor's Education, Margaret E. Mohrmann Consenting to God and Nature: Toward a Theocentric, Naturalistic, Theological Ethics, Byron C. Bangert; and Practices, Politics, and Performances: Toward a Communal Hermeneutic for Christian Ethics, Michael G. Cartwright Defending Probabilism: The Moral Theology of Juan Caramuel, Julia Fleming; and The Pinckaers Reader: Renewing Thomistic Moral Theology, John Berkman and Craig Steven Titus, editors Environmental Stewardship: Critical Perspectives-Past and Present, R. J. Berry, editor; and Theology that Matters: Ecology, Economy, and God, Darby Kathleen Ray, editor Ethics, Nationalism and Just War: Medieval and Contemporary Perspectives, Henrik Syse and Gregory M. Reichberg, editors; and Arguing the Just War in Islam, John Kelsay Moral Discernment in the Christian Life: Essays in Theological Ethics, James M. Gustafson, edited and with an introduction by Theo A. Boer and Paul E. Capetz; and "The Responsibility of the Church for Society" and Other Essays, by H. Richard Niebuhr, with an introduction by Kristine A. Culp, editor The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice, Ted A. Smith; and The Future of Faith in American Politics: The Public Witness of the Evangelical Center, David P. Gushee Contributors
