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Part 1. Natural science. Stewardship of the environment and the pressures of the modern world : is there a Christian response? / Stephen Carr. -- The new commandment and the selfish gene / John J. Moore. -- The role of creativity in mathematics / John M. Dubbey. -- The physical concept of time and the Christian concept of eternity / Patrick A. Whittle. -- Accountability : living our faith? An information systems perspective / David Mundy. -- part 2. Social science. The rights of the child in the Christian context / Garton S. Kamchedzera. -- The AIDS crisis : a challenge to the integrity of the church in Malawi / Fulata Lusungu Moyo. -- Singing, dancing and believing : civic education in Malawi idiom / James Tengatenga. -- "Not war but defence of the oppressed"? Bishop Mackenzie's skirmishes with the Yao in 1861 / Jonathan Newell. -- part 3. Humanities. What about those difficult phases in the history of black people? A Christian appraisal of the African experience / Kings M. Phiri -- Paradigm shift in scientific advance. A model for Christian conversion in the modern world? / Kenneth R. Ross. -- Christianity and the visual arts in Malawi / Martin Ott. -- Christianity : liberative or oppressive to African women? / Isabel Apawo Phiri. -- Christian missions and western colonialism : soulmates or antagonists? / Klaus Fiedler

The role of liberalized, ecumenical Protestantism in American history has too often been obscured by the more flamboyant and orthodox versions of the faith that oppose evolution, embrace narrow conceptions of family values, and continue to insist that the United States should be understood as a Christian nation. In this book, one of our preeminent scholars of American intellectual history examines how liberal Protestant thinkers struggled to embrace modernity, even at the cost of yielding much of the symbolic capital of Christianity to more conservative, evangelical communities of faith.

Constructive interreligious dialogue is only a recent phenomenon. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, many branches of Christianity, not least the Catholic Church, are engaged in a world-wide constructive dialogue with Muslims, made all the more necessary by the terrorist attacks of September 11. In these new conversations, Muslim religious leaders took an important initiative when they sent their document, 'A Common Word Between Us', to all Christians in the West

This book explores the role of Catholic peacebuilding in addressing the global mining industry. Mining is intimately linked to issues of conflict, human rights, sustainable development, governance, and environmental justice. As an institution of significant scope and scale with a large network of actors at all levels and substantial theoretical and ethical resources, the Catholic Church is well positioned to acknowledge the essential role of mining, while challenging unethical and harmful practices, and promoting integral peace, development, and ecology. Drawing together theology, ethics, and praxis, the volume reflects the diversity of Catholic action on mining and the importance of an integrated approach. It includes contributions by an international and interdisciplinary range of scholars and practitioners. They examine Catholic action on mining in El Salvador, Peru, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Philippines. They also address general issues of corporate social responsibility, human rights, development, ecology, and peacebuilding. The book will be of interest to scholars of theology, social ethics, and Catholic studies as well as those specializing in development, ecology, human rights, and peace studies.