In dialogue with Jürgen Habermas's communicative ethics, Covenant and Communication constructively explores a covenantal-communicative model of Christian ethics. Hak Joon Lee analyzes themes of freedom, equality, and reciprocity in Habermas's theory of communication from the perspective of Reformed Christian doctrines of covenant and the Trinity. This reconstruction of Christian ethics based upon communicative rationality has profound implications for the reinterpretation of Christianity and its relationship with liberal political institutions. It offers fresh perspectives on important Christian theological concepts, such as divine economy, church, communion, conscience, law and gospel, and the social sphere. A communicative ethics rooted in a rich Christian spiritual tradition provides new energies for the kind of revitalization of democracy and human rights advocated by Habermas against the colonizing power of money and bureaucracy. This work tests its plausibility in dialogue with contemporary theories of Christian ethics, such as narrative ethics, Catholic human rights theory, and liberation ethics.

Covenant and Communication: A Christian Moral Conversation with Jurgen Habermas

Politics & Social Sciences

Lee, Hak Joon

Philosophy

University Press of America

In this capacious and accessible introduction to Christian ethics, Hak Joon Lee advances a renewed vision of Christian life that is liberative, grace-centered, and justice- and peace-oriented in nature. Responding to key ethical questions of today, Lee applies the moral meaning and implications of the New Covenant in Jesus Christ to twenty-first-century life, characterized by fluidity, fragmentation, division, and violence.&nbsp; Christian Ethics&nbsp;begins by introducing covenant as the central drama and storyline of Scripture that culminates in the New Covenant of Jesus. It presents&nbsp;shalom&nbsp;(the wholeness and flourishing of creation)&nbsp;as God's ultimate purpose and God's covenant as "God's organizing mechanism of community" that mediates God's work of liberation and restoration. Lee proposes a creative model of Christian ethics based on the New Covenant of Jesus and its organizing patterns, reconstructing the key categories of ethics (agency, norms, authority of Scripture, ethical discernment, etc.) and drawing out four practices--communicative engagement, just peacemaking, grassroots organizing, and nonviolence.&nbsp;&nbsp;The result is a new model of Christian ethics that is inclusive, egalitarian, ecological, and justice- and peace-oriented, which overcomes the limitations of traditional covenantal ethics.&nbsp; In the second part of the book, Lee systematically applies New Covenant ethics to the most urgent and controversial social issues of our time: democratic&nbsp;politics, economic ethics, creation care, criminal justice, race, sex and marriage, medicine, and war and peace. Through his deep, pastoral, and irenic inquiries into these difficult topics, Lee demonstrates a pattern of covenantal moral reasoning that undercuts the dominant neoliberal ethos of individualism and transactional relationship that more and more influences Christian moral decisions. His conclusion is that as covenant has been at the heart of modern democracy, human rights, civil society, and civic formation, a renewed understanding of covenant centered in Jesus can help to heal our broken society and imperiled planet, and to reorganize the fragmented human life in the era of globalization and digitization.

Christian Ethics: A New Covenant Model

History

World

Eerdmans

iDentity-Korean American Youth (Student)

Park, Kevin

Park, Kil Jae

Religion & Spirituality

Lulu Press

"Brings covenantal theology into conversation with the community organizing theory of Saul Alinsky to model a Christian communal response to contemporary societal challenges"--

God and Community Organizing: A Covenantal Approach

Sociology

Baylor University Press

In We Will Get to the Promised Land, Lee explores the entire scope of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s spirituality, tracing its roots to African communal religious traditions and African Americans' fight for racial justice. He presents communal-political spirituality as constituting the heart of King's multifaceted spirituality. Lee reinterprets King's personal journey, theology, and ethics, as well as the Civil Rights Movement, in light of this communal-political spirituality, while assessing its ongoing importance for the common life in the twenty-first century, with particular attention to the war on terror and interreligious ecumenism.

We Will Get to the Promised Land: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Communal-Political Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

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