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Christian faith in relationship to economic activity : framing the issues -- Markets : mechanisms for creating good and exercising Christian responsibility -- Public finance : the role of government in the provision of goods and services -- Savior or Leviathan? : the role of government in our daily lives -- Creation care : exercising good stewardship in the garden -- The big picture : issues in macroeconomic policy -- What do we know about monetary and fiscal policy? -- International economic relations : hope for the third world -- Work and vocation : what is in your hand? -- Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief : attending to the poor or worrying about income gaps? -- Going beyond markets : renewing neighborhoods, reconciling people and restoring hope -- Epilogue: Nine big ideas from economics that can help you be a good steward every day

Can a theological case be made from Scripture that Israel still has a claim to the Promised Land? Christian Zionism is often seen as the offspring of premillennial dispensationalism. But the historical roots of Christian Zionism came long before the rise of the Plymouth Brethren and John Nelson Darby. In fact, the authors of The New Christian Zionism contend that the biblical and theological connections between covenant and land are nearly as close in the New Testament as in the Old. Written with academic rigor by experts in the field, this book proposes that Zionism can be defended historically, theologically, politically and morally. While this does not sanctify every policy and practice of the current Israeli government, the authors include recommendations for how twenty-first-century Christian theology should rethink its understanding of both ancient and contemporary Israel, the Bible and Christian theology more broadly. This provocative volume proposes a place for Christian Zionism in an integrated biblical vision

Why should you read this book? -- Philosophers and sages : Hokhmah and Sophia -- Philosophy within the limits of religion alone? : faith and reason -- Jesus and philosophy -- What is real? : metaphysics -- What do I know? : epistemology -- What should I value? : ethics and aesthetics -- Who and what am I? : philosophy of mind -- Understanding nature : philosophy of science -- Transforming the soul : philosophy and spiritual formation

Balanced Brain in the BibleSummary; Chapter 4: Church and Post-Ecotheology; Re-discovered Chinese Ecotheories; Vanity of Ecotheologies; Biblical Verses of Ecology and Post-Ecology; Church and Post-Ecotheology; Summary; Chapter 5: Capitalism and Post-Ecotheology; Vanity of Rightist and Leftist Ecological Solutions; Vanity of Sustainable Ecotheology; Capitalism and Post-Ecotheology; Summary; Chapter 6: Democracy and Post-Ecotheology; Vanity of Green/Red Authoritarianism; Vanity of Deliberative Democracy; Vanity of Global Ecological Institutions; Vanity of the Kingdom of God on Earth

The discovery of power -- The gift of power: in the beginning it was not so. Power is a gift -- Idolatry -- Injustice -- Icons -- The grip of power: it will not be so among you. The hiddenness of power -- Force, coercion and violence -- The lure of privilege -- Institutions and creative power: from generation to generation. The gift of institutions -- Principalities, powers and broken institutions -- Becoming trustees -- The end of power: we had to celebrate. Disciplined power -- The Sabbath leader -- The end of power

Common life in our society is in decline--our communities are disintegrating, our public discourse is hateful, and economic inequalities are widening. In this book, Jake Meador reclaims a vision of common life for our fractured times: a vision that doesn't depend on the destinies of our economies or our political institutions, but on our citizenship in a heavenly city. Only through that vision can we truly work together for the common good

Introduction to the Second Edition / William T Cavanaugh, Peter Manley Scott -- Historical Resources. Scripture / Walter Brueggemann -- Scripture / Christopher Rowland -- Augustine / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Aquinas / Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt -- The Reformation / Andrew Bradstock -- Liturgy / Bernd Wannenwetsch -- Contemporary Political Theologies. Eastern Orthodox Thought / Pantelis Kalaitzidis -- Carl Schmitt / Michael Hollerich -- Karl Barth / Haddon Willmer -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer / Stanley Hauerwas -- John Courtney Murray / Michael J Baxter -- Anglican Political Theology / Luke Bretherton -- Reinhold Niebuhr / William Werpehowski -- Feminist Theology, Southern / Kwok Pui-lan -- Feminist Theology, Northern / Elaine Graham -- Jürgen Moltmann / Nicholas Adams -- Johann Baptist Metz / J Matthew Ashley -- Political Theologies in Asia / Aloysius Pieris -- Black Political Theologies / M Shawn Copeland -- Liberation Theology 1 / Roberto S Goizueta -- Liberation Theology 2 / Mario I Aguilar -- Stanley Hauerwas / R R Reno -- John Milbank / Gavin Hyman -- Anabaptist Political Theologies / Elizabeth Phillips -- Political Theologies of Africa / Emmanuel Katongole -- Constructive Political Theology. Trinity / Kathryn Tanner -- Creation / Peter Manley Scott -- Christology / Raymund Schwager, Wolfgang Palaver -- Atonement / Timothy J Gorringe -- Spirit / Mark Lewis Taylor -- Church / William T Cavanaugh -- Eschatology / Robert W Jenson -- Structures and Movements. State and Civil Society / Daniel M Bell -- Democracy / John W Gruchy -- Critical Theory / Marsha Aileen Hewitt -- Postmodernism / Catherine Pickstock -- Postcolonialism / Agnes M Brazal -- Political Economy / Michael S Northcott -- Technology and Information / Michael S Burdett -- Grassroots Social Movements / Joerg Rieger -- Postsecular Political Theology / Marcus Pound -- Abrahamic Perspectives. The Islamic Quest for Sociopolitical Justice / Bustami Mohamed Khir -- Abrahamic Theopolitics Revisited / Peter Ochs.

Earth : what can a planet do? / Clayton Crockett -- Satellite skies; or, the gospel and acts of the vampirisms of transcendence / Ward Blanton -- A theory of insurrection: beyond the way of the mortals / Jeffrey W. Robbins -- The gospel of the word made flesh: insurrection from within the heart of divinity / Noëlle Vahanian

"Desiring a Better Country is a collection of new essays by Douglas Farrow, stimulated by current legal and political and philosophical debates in North America, which challenges the common misconception that secular institutions can be a-theological or religiously neutral. It does so by treating five problems: the grounding of human rights, the dislocation of the goods of marriage, the incoherence of normative pluralism, the uncertain future of religious freedom, and distortions of the libertas ecclesiae or the doctrine of the Two. Conversely, Farrow challenges the notion that the Church can be a-political. The final essay recommends an eschatologically informed solution to the impasse of much post-conciliar political theology, rejecting both the 'social kingship' model and its de-politicized alternative in the later work of John Courtney Murray."--