Natural Law and Religious Freedom

Every successive generation finds fresh reasons for the study of natural law. Current interest in the natural law may well be due to a pervasive moral pessimism in the Western cultural context and wider contemporary geopolitical challenges. Those geopolitical challenges result from two significant and worrisome global developments – unprecedented violent persecution of religious minorities on several continents and a growing climate of secular hostility toward religious faith in Western societies. Natural Law and Religious Freedom aims to address what is relatively absent from the literature by demonstrating the importance of natural law ethics in both establishing and preserving basic human rights, of which religious freedom has pride of place.
 Probing contemporary challenges to natural law thinking that are both internal and external to religious faith, and examining the character and constitution of natural law ethics, Natural Law and Religious Freedom will be of interest to theologians, ethicists and philosophers as well as policy analysts, politicians and activists who are concerned to anchor religious freedom and human rights policy considerations in an enduring way.

Natural Law and Religious Freedom: The Role of Moral First Things in Grounding and Protecting the First Freedom

Politics & Social Sciences

Charles, J. Daryl

Philosophy

Routledge

Restating what all people intuit and what this means in moral, specifically bioethical, discourse is theraison d'être for this volume. J.áDaryl Charles argues that a traditional metaphysics of natural law lies at the heart of the present reconstructive project, and that a revival in natural-law thinking is of the highest priority for the Christian community as we contend in, rather than abdicate, the public square. Nowhere is this more on display than in the realm of bioethics, where the most basic moral questions -- human personhood, human rights versus responsibilities, the reality of moral evil, the basis of civil society -- are being debated. With his timely application of natural-law thinking to the field of bioethics, Charles seeks to breathe new life back into this key debate.

Retrieving the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things (Critical Issues in Bioethics (CIB))

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

In classroom and scholarly study, the Gospels, Acts, and the Pauline letters receive far more attention than does the so-called “end” of the New Testament: Hebrews; James; 1 and 2 Peter; 1, 2, and 3 John; Jude; and Revelation.
Faithful to the End: An Introduction to Hebrews Through Revelation offers a careful study of these latter biblical letters, closely examining each one’s authorship and origin, destination and audience, purpose, and major themes. Appropriate as a reference work or textbook in college and seminary classrooms, this volume uniquely combines head knowledge with a challenge to the heart, for it is purposefully titled after each book’s recurring theme of persevering in the faith.
Coauthor Terry L. Wilder writes, “Our hope is that God might use this text to help readers not only learn about these New Testament books, but also to appropriate the message contained in each. May we be faithful to the end!”

Faithful to the End: An Introduction to Hebrews Through Revelation

Easley, Kendell H.

Wilder, Terry L.

Reference

B&H Academic

Ours is a time of moral crisis. Are evangelical Christians up to the task of contributing to the present ethical debates? All too often the evangelical church has relied on protest over persuasion, laments author J. Daryl Charles. The results of its public witness within American society have not been encouraging. What is lacking, argues Charles, is a biblically based and theologically informed vision that can ground the moral education that should take place in the church and its institutions of higher education. The Unformed Conscience of Evangelicalism stands to fill this gap by reminding the evangelical church of its biblical and theological foundations for forming a unified personal and social ethic. After outlining the contours of such a moral vision, Charles issues a wake-up call for evangelicals to once again draw on the resources of the church's Great Tradition and to reconfigure their priorities to serve the moral formation of the saints, their pastors, leaders and members. But more than this, Charles offers practical direction as to how seminaries, Christian colleges and individual congregations might go about shaping the character and conscience of the evangelical church.

The Unformed Conscience of Evangelicalism: Recovering the Church's Moral Vision

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

Intervarsity Pr

Pacifism. Jihad. Militarism. Are these our only alternatives for dealing with global injustice today? J. Daryl Charles leads us to reconsider a Christian view of the use of force to maintain or reestablish justice. He shows how love for a neighbor can warrant the just use of force. Reviewing and updating the widely recognized but not necessarily well-understood just-war teaching of the church through the ages, Charles shows how it captures many of the concerns of the pacifist position while deliberately avoiding, on the other side, the excesses of jihad and militarism. Aware of our contemporary global situation, Charles addresses the unique challenges of dealing with international terrorism.

Between Pacifism and Jihad: Just War and Christian Tradition

History

World

IVP Academic

Erland Waltner explains how 1 Peter applies Jesus' teaching on loving the enemy to the life situation of scattered Christians in Asia Minor. Peter empowers believers to be communities of hope, not retaliating for the abuse they suffer, but bearing witness of their Lord by word, lifestyle, and doing good. J. Daryl Charles shows how 2 Peter and Jude are relevant since the church still faces ethical compromises and pastoral dilemmas. Their apocalyptic imagery stresses that the concerns of Christian faithfulness and faith are absolutely crucial. The church needs such moral exhortation.

1 & 2 Peter, Jude: Believers Church Bible Commentary (Believers Church Bible Commentary Series)

Waltner, Erland

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Herald Press

Traditionally, New Testament scholarship has subsumed examination of Jude under the study of 2 Peter, concentrating primarily on the question of literary dependence. The present work, however, with its focus on the unique features of the epistle, endeavors to penetrate the distinct literary and theological world of Jude and thus illuminate what for many has been an obscure part of the New Testament canon.

Literary Strategy in the Epistle of Jude

Christian Books & Bibles

University of Scranton Press

The divide between the sacred and the secular life has dogged Christians for centuries. Even today, many Christians and church leaders still assume that the workplace is inferior to pastoring, Bible study, mission trips, and the like. This volume provides a different approach: it surveys the persistence of the sacred-secular divide in Christian history to develop a more robust theology of vocation while engaging with both the Old and New Testament. Charles offers a vision for numerous ways Christians are called to live faithfully in the so-called secular world.

Our Secular Vocation: Rethinking the Church's Calling to the Marketplace

With issues of war and peace at the forefront of current events, an informed Christian response is needed. This timely volume answers 104 questions from a just-war perspective, offering thoughtful yet succinct answers.
Ranging from the theoretical to the practical, the volume looks at how the just-war perspective relates to the philosopher, historian, statesman, theologian, combatant, and individual―with particular emphases on its historical development and application to contemporary geopolitical challenges. Forgoing ideological extremes, Charles and Demy give much attention to the biblical teaching on the subject as they provide moral guidance.
A valuable resource for considering the ethical issues relating to war, Christians will find this book's user-friendly format a helpful starting point for discussion.

War, Peace, and Christianity: Questions and Answers from a Just-War Perspective

Demy, Timothy J.

Crossway

Crossway Books

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Natural Law and Religious Freedom: The Role of Moral First Things in Grounding and Protecting the First Freedom

Retrieving the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things (Critical Issues in Bioethics (CIB))

Faithful to the End: An Introduction to Hebrews Through Revelation

The Unformed Conscience of Evangelicalism: Recovering the Church's Moral Vision

Between Pacifism and Jihad: Just War and Christian Tradition

1 & 2 Peter, Jude: Believers Church Bible Commentary (Believers Church Bible Commentary Series)

Literary Strategy in the Epistle of Jude

Our Secular Vocation: Rethinking the Church's Calling to the Marketplace

War, Peace, and Christianity: Questions and Answers from a Just-War Perspective

War, Peace, and Christianity: Questions and Answers from a Just-War Perspective