America in God's World: Theology, Ethics, and the Crises of Bases Abroad, Bad Money, and Black Gold
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Overview
America in God's World argues that human injustice in social-policy areas such as security, economy, and ecology can be traced to defective theology/ethics abroad in the land. Renewing biblical theology and ethics, and finding new ways to appropriate this wisdom into public policy, can bring renewal to our national life and help heal and reconcile our troubled world.
"Professor Kenneth L. Vaux brings a timely, hope-filled vision
of an alternative future of our nation and world. In the wake
of years of national moral vacuity, when greed masqueraded as sound
economic theory, natural resources have been treated as
inexhaustible, and an arrogance of power resulted in tragic
international policies, we have in these pages a word of
hope. Instead of continuing along the path of religious or
national exceptionalism, the author lays out a restorative path for
the future. It is a path that will require honest dialogue,
extraordinary new commitments around our environment that include
daily responsibilities, and a call to a new commonweal that crosses
boundaries of religion, race and nationality."
Philip A. Amerson, President, Garrett-Evangelical Theological
Seminary
Product Details
- Title : America in God's World: Theology, Ethics, and the Crises of Bases Abroad, Bad Money, and Black Gold
- Authors:
- Vaux, Kenneth L.
- Baffles, Melanie
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Publication Date: 2009
- ISBN: 9781498274678
Kenneth Vaux is Emeritus Professor of Ethics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and currently serves as both Professor of Theological Ethics at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and a member of the Graduate Faculty at Northwestern University.