Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics

A Christian response to global realities of human inequality, poverty, violence and ecological destruction in the twenty-first century.

Lisa Sowle Cahill (Author)

9781107515321, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 April 2015

328 pages
23 x 15.4 x 1.8 cm, 0.48 kg

'… a sincere, intellectually astute, generous, humble, creative, reconciling foray into Scripture, theology and philosophy …' Studies in Christian Ethics

Global realities of human inequality, poverty, violence and ecological destruction call for a twenty-first-century Christian response which links cross-cultural and interreligious cooperation for change to the Gospel. This book demonstrates why just action is necessarily a criterion of authentic Christian theology, and gives grounds for Christian hope that change in violent structures is really possible. Lisa Sowle Cahill argues that theology and biblical interpretation are already embedded in and indebted to ethical-political practices and choices. Within this ecumenical study, she explores the use of the historical Jesus in constructive theology; the merits of Word and Spirit Christologies; the importance of liberation and feminist theologies as well as theologies from the global south; and also the possibility of qualified moral universalism. The book will be of great interest to all students of theology, religious ethics and politics, and biblical studies.

Preface
1. The politics of salvation
2. Creation and evil
3. Kingdom of God
4. Christ
5. Spirit
6. Cross
7. Nature
8. Hope
Index.

Subject Areas: Christian theology [HRCM], Religion & politics [HRAM2], Religious ethics [HRAM1]