Contemporary societies face many complex injustices, from environmental devastation that threatens our long-term prospects, to human trafficking that fuels our global economy, to health disparities...
Perspectives from Religion, Philosophy, and Psychology
Edited by Drew Collins and Matthew Croasmun
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481318013
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Paperback
We have more options and choices to make about how we want to live than ever before. But where do we turn for guidance as we choose how to live? Are we so focused on choosing what we want for our lives...
Edited by Drew Collins, Ryan McAnnally-Linz and Evan C. Rosa
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781481311830
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: June 2023
Format: Paperback
The true meaning of humility persistently drives debate, largely because we cannot agree on the word’s definition. The "correctness" of normative terms matters, and humility carries a distinctive...
Theology and Ethical Responsibility in Video Games
by Benjamin J. Chicka
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481315463
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2021
Format: Hardcover
No contemporary form of pop culture has as large a social impact as video games, an entertainment industry whose yearly revenues continue to rise. Gamergate rocked the gaming industry when isolated...
Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance
by Reggie L. Williams
Foreword by Ferdinand Schlingensiepen
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481315852
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2021
Format: Paperback
Dietrich Bonhoeffer publicly confronted Nazism and anti-Semitic racism in Hitler's Germany. The Reich's political ideology, when mixed with theology of the German Christian movement, turned Jesus...
The Axial Age, Dark Green Religion, and the World that Never Was
by Iain Provan
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781602589926
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2019
Format: Paperback
The contemporary world has been shaped by two important and potent myths. Karl Jaspers' construct of the "axial age" envisions the common past (800-200 BC), the time when Western society was born and...
Emotions are two-sided. They contain deep truths about what it means to be human, but they also deceive, mislead, and manipulate. They are celebrated for the insights they provide, but they also are...
W. David Solomon sits at the very center of the revival of virtue ethics. Solomon’s work extended what began with the publication of G. E. M. Anscombe’s "Modern Moral Philosophy" (1958) by solidifying...
Crippled Grace combines disability studies, Christian theology, philosophy, and psychology to explore what constitutes happiness and how it is achieved. The virtue tradition construes happiness as whole-of-life...
In a masterful survey of the history of the idea of human perfection, prize-winning author and noted rhetorician Michael J. Hyde leads a fascinating excursion through Western philosophy, religion, science,...
In Jewish Justice David Novak explores the continuing role of Judaism for crafting ethics, politics, and theology. Drawing on sources as diverse as the Bible, the Talmud, and ancient, medieval, and...
Power, money, endless competition. A zero-sum game. Politics as usual. Only the hearty or craven need apply. The political actors have lost sight of the politics of a common good. A Theology of Political...
Biotechnological advancements during the last half-century have forced humanity to come to grips with the possibility of a post-human future. The ever-evolving opinions about how society should anticipate...
Questions of belief, and agency over personal belief, abound as individuals claim to have the right to believe whatever they so choose. In a carefully constructed argument, Bruce Reichenbach contends...
Directly challenging the prevailing interpretation, Corey Beals explores the ideas of twentieth-century philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's concept of love, love's relation to wisdom, and how love makes...
