Public Dimensions of a Believer's Life: Rediscovering the Cardinal Virtues

In recent American politics, the term OmoralityO has come to be used in a way almost entirely restricted to private family and sexual issues, leaving aside responsibility for immensely consequential decisions about initiating wars, oppressive policies, regressive tax structures, and disregard of the United Nations and international law. Public Dimensions of a BelieverOs Life is about human responsibility in public life and the moral and spiritual factors involved in exercising that responsibility. Monika Hellwig explores the decisions people have to make in human affairs at all levels of social organization, the values that guide these decisions, and the way those values are often apparently in conflict with one another. By looking at major moral issues in the political decisions, actions and failures to act, of the twentieth century in the light of the tradition of the cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance), HellwigOs work explores the moral implications of the political life in our own times.

History

Hellwig, Monika K.

World

Sheed Ward

In recent American politics, the term “morality” has come to be used in a way almost entirely restricted to private family and sexual issues, leaving aside responsibility for immensely consequential decisions about initiating wars, oppressive policies, regressive tax structures, and disregard of the United Nations and international law. Public Dimensions of a Believer's Life is about human responsibility in public life and the moral and spiritual factors involved in exercising that responsibility. Monika Hellwig explores the decisions people have to make in human affairs at all levels of social organization, the values that guide these decisions, and the way those values are often apparently in conflict with one another. By looking at major moral issues in the political decisions, actions and failures to act, of the twentieth century in the light of the tradition of the cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance), Hellwig's work explores the moral implications of the political life in our own times.

This book defends a startling idea: that the age-old theological and philosophical problems of original sin and evil, long thought intractable, have already been solved. The solution has come from the very scientific discovery that many consider the most mortal threat to traditional religion: evolution.Daryl Domning explains in straightforward terms the workings of modern evolutionary theory, Darwinian natural selection, and how this has brought forth life and the human mind. He counters objections to Darwinism that are raised by some believers and emphasizes that the evolutionary process necessarily enforces selfish behavior on all living things. This account of both physical and moral evil is arguably more consistent with traditional Christian teachings than are the explanations given by most contemporary 'evolutionary' theologians themselves.The prominent theologian, Monika Hellwig, dialogues with Daryl Domning throughout the book to present a balanced reappraisal of the doctrine of original sin from both a scientist's and theologian's perspective.

Original Selfishness: Original Sin And Evil in the Light of Evolution (Ashgate Science And Religion Series)

Religion & Spirituality

Domning, Daryl P

Christian Books & Bibles

Ashgate Pub. Co

The Eucharist and the Hunger of the World

Paulist Pr

Paperback, as pictured; name written inside (chr)

What Are They Saying About Death and Christian Hope?

Using insightful meditations, psalm adaptations and line drawings, the eminent theologian invites readers to become more aware of themselves as guests on God's earth and to consider how that affects their relationship to God, to other people and to material things. For both individuals and small groups.

Guests of God: Stewards of Divine Creation

Paulist Press

The Classic Work Simplified and Updated Written by one of the country's most respected Catholic theologians, for twenty years this book has been the standard in explaining the major doctrines of the faith. Here now is a fully revised edition, updated throughout by Hellwig herself. The result offers solid, trustworthy answers to questions that trouble most thinking Catholics. This concise overview of the Catholic faith-- --uses inclusive language for God and gender. --streamlines the original's expression of ideas into simpler terms. --clarifies the book's more difficult material. --covers a wide range of topics. --addresses the major questions raised by general readers over the past twenty years.

Understanding Catholicism

A book about Jesus and God. There is the concept of theology behind this book.

Jesus: The Compassion of God (Theology and Life Series)

Michael Glazier Books

A Case for Peace in Reason and Faith

Michael Glazier

Continuous change would now appear to be a permanent feature of Roman Catholicism. It was not always so, and as a result there is confusion for many Catholics.  By skillfully selecting central themes, the author gives a comprehensive yet succinct account of the main theological advances as well as the most significant writers of the past three decades.  She interprets clearly what is happening in the church today, yet she is ot confrontational.

What Are the Theologians Saying Now?: A Retrospective on Several Decades

Christian Classics

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Public Dimensions of a Believer's Life: Rediscovering the Cardinal Virtues

Public Dimensions of a Believer's Life: Rediscovering the Cardinal Virtues

Original Selfishness: Original Sin And Evil in the Light of Evolution (Ashgate Science And Religion Series)

The Eucharist and the Hunger of the World

What Are They Saying About Death and Christian Hope?

Guests of God: Stewards of Divine Creation

Understanding Catholicism

Jesus: The Compassion of God (Theology and Life Series)

A Case for Peace in Reason and Faith

What Are the Theologians Saying Now?: A Retrospective on Several Decades