Naming the Silences
Author : Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
Author : Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
Author : Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 1994-12-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780802808967
Why does a good and all-powerful God allow us to experience pain and suffering? According to Stanley Hauerwas, asking this question is a theological mistake. Drawing heavily on stories of ill and dying children to illustrate and clarify his discussion of theological-philosophical issues, Hauerwas explores why we so fervently seek explanations for suffering and evil, and he shows how modern medicine has become a god to which we look (in vain) for deliverance from the evils of disease and mortality.
Author : Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2004-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567477614
Hauerwas explores why we so fervently seek explanations for suffering and evil, and he shows how modern medicine has become a god to which we look-in vain-for deliverance from the evils of disease and mortality.
Author : Ruth W. Grant
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226306747
Is it more dangerous to call something evil or not to? This fundamental question deeply divides those who fear that the term oversimplifies grave problems and those who worry that, to effectively address such issues as terrorism and genocide, we must first acknowledge them as evil. Recognizing that the way we approach this dilemma can significantly affect both the harm we suffer and the suffering we inflict, a distinguished group of contributors engages in the debate with this series of timely and original essays. Drawing on Western conceptions of evil from the Middle Ages to the present, these pieces demonstrate that, while it may not be possible to definitively settle moral questions, we are still able—and in fact are obligated—to make moral arguments and judgments. Using a wide variety of approaches, the authors raise tough questions: Why is so much evil perpetrated in the name of good? Could evil ever be eradicated? How can liberal democratic politics help us strike a balance between the need to pass judgment and the need to remain tolerant? Their insightful answers exemplify how the sometimes rarefied worlds of political theory, philosophy, theology, and history can illuminate pressing contemporary concerns.
Author : Richard Norton
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0718896165
Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love grapples with the same fundamental question that has vexed philosophers and theologians since the advent of monotheistic religion, and continues as a barrier to belief for many today. Namely, if God is so good, how can natural disaster, genocide, trauma - and my present suffering - occur? Historically, there have been two apparently very different approaches to the problem: the pastoral, or practical, on the one hand and the systematic on the other. However, Richard Norton suggests that these two lines of thought may not be as separate as they seem, and may indeed be dependent on one another for their cohesion. Drawing on Julian's medieval experience of personal and population-wide suffering, alongside that of more recent theologians such as Dorothy Solle and Jurgen Moltmann, Norton constructs a compassionate model of theodicy that can be of use to both pastoral and systematic theologians. Throughout, he remains sensitive to the raw atrocity of evil, while preserving a vision of God as the one who ensures that all shall be well.
Author : William L. Rowe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 2008-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253114098
Is evil evidence against the existence of God? A collection of essays by philosophers, theologians, and other scholars. Even if God and evil are compatible, it remains hotly contested whether evil renders belief in God unreasonable. The Evidential Argument from Evil presents five classic statements on this issue by eminent philosophers and theologians, and places them in dialogue with eleven original essays reflecting new thinking by these and other scholars. The volume focuses on two versions of the argument. The first affirms that there is no reason for God to permit either certain specific horrors or the variety and profusion of undeserved suffering. The second asserts that pleasure and pain, given their biological role, are better explained by hypotheses other than theism. Contributors include William P. Alston, Paul Draper, Richard M. Gale, Daniel Howard-Snyder, Alvin Plantinga, William L. Rowe, Bruce Russell, Eleonore Stump, Richard G. Swinburne, Peter van Inwagen, and Stephen John Wykstra.
Author : Rachelle Barina
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 153267922X
Catholic Health Ministry Edited by Rachelle Barina, Nathaniel Hibner, and Tobias Winright Repair Work: Rethinking the Separation of Academic Moral Theologians and Catholic Health Care Ethicists Paul Wojda Catholic Bioethicists and Moral Theologians Drifting Apart?: A Sequela of Specialization and Professionalization Becket Gremmels Equally Strange Fruit: Catholic Health Care and the Appropriation of Residential Segregation Cory Mitchell and Therese Lysaught Hospital and Health System M&A: Is It Good for Community Health? Michael Panicola63 Accompaniment with the Sick: An Authentic Christian Vocation that Rejects the Fallacy of Prosperity Theology Ramon Luzarraga76 Grace at the End of Life: Rethinking Ordinary and Extraordinary Means in a Global Context Conor Kelly89 A Voice in the Wilderness: Reimagining the Role of Catholic Health Care Mission Leader Michael McCarthy114 Theologians in Catholic Healthcare Ministries: Breaking Beyond the Bond with Ethics Darren Henson130
Author : Kristiaan Depoortere
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789068316537
Kristiaan Depoortere is a priest of the diocese of Brugge (Belgium) and professor of Pastoral Theology at the Catholic University of Leuven. He is also responsible for the Programme of Continuing Education for Pastoral Workers in Health Care (Faculty of Theology).
Author : Michael Lamb
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1626167087
What might we learn if the study of ethics focused less on hard cases and more on the practices of everyday life? In Everyday Ethics, Michael Lamb and Brian Williams gather some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners of moral theology (including some GUP authors) to explore that question in dialogue with anthropology and the social sciences. Inspired by the work of Michael Banner, these scholars cross disciplinary boundaries to analyze the ethics of ordinary practices—from eating, learning, and loving thy neighbor to borrowing and spending, using technology, and working in a flexible economy. Along the way, they consider the moral and methodological questions that emerge from this interdisciplinary dialogue and assess the implications for the future of moral theology.
Author : Jeremy Sugarman MD, MPH, MA
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1589016238
Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, nursing, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology. In this influential book, outstanding scholars in medical ethics bring these many methods together in one place to be systematically described, critiqued, and challenged. Newly revised and updated chapters in this second edition include philosophy, religion and theology, virtue and professionalism, casuistry and clinical ethics, law, history, qualitative research, ethnography, quantitative surveys, experimental methods, and economics and decision science. This second edition also includes new chapters on literature and sociology, as well as a second chapter on philosophy which expands the range of philosophical methods discussed to include gender ethics, communitarianism, and discourse ethics. In each of these chapters, contributors provide descriptions of the methods, critiques, and notes on resources and training. Methods in Medical Ethics is a valuable resource for scholars, teachers, editors, and students in any of the disciplines that have contributed to the field. As a textbook and reference for graduate students and scholars in medical ethics, it offers a rich understanding of the complexities involved in the rigorous investigation of moral questions in medical practice and research.