The Christian Moral LifeMore than forty years ago the Second Vatican Council challenged Catholics to a renewal of moral theology so that the moral teachings of the church would be more focused on Christ, rooted in the scriptures, and connected to the sacramental and spiritual life. Following this recommendation, this text views the Christian moral life as one of faithful discipleship imbued with Christian virtues. Faithful discipleship in an increasingly global world of

Shenk is professor of mission History and contemporary culture at Fuller Theological Seminary

but to answer a call to personal conversion

This repository of African religion

that the true contemplative is a peacemaker

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In The Dharma of India

Mary McLeod Bethune

Ched Myers and Elaine Enns offer a lens for re-reading the entire biblical tradition as a resource for the cause of "restorative justice" and peacemaking

the United States

is one of the original proponents of Latin American liberation theology

while expanding beyond a specifically Christian hermeneutic

He served as rector of the Akrofi-Christaller Institute for Theology