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July 2003
- Table of Contents
- A Review "from the Field"
- An Interview with Robert Holland
- Comments on "Caring for Health"
- Congregational Strategies for Invigorating Lutheranism’s Just PeaceMaking Tradition
- Just War and Interventionist Foreign Policy
- The Irreproducible Gift: Musings on Christ and Biotechnological Reproduction
- What does it mean to be "Church?" The mission of the Church in Light of Three Biblical Images
- Doing Business Ethics in the Congregation
- Caring For Health: Our Shared Endeavor: A Review
June 2003: The Church in the Corporate World
- Table of Contents
- A Preface to The Church in the Corporate World
- Family First?
- Finding Vocation in the Corporation
- How has Preaching Changed Since September 11? Not at All, and Not Enough
- How the Church Prays in Times of War
- Pacifism, Just War and the Limits of Ethics
- Restoring Joy When Gladness of Marriage Becomes Overcast
- Shareholder Advocacy
- Review of Kurt Senske's Executive Values
- A Review of Navigating Right and Wrong: Ethical Decision Making in a Pluralistic Age
- Luther on the Family
March 2003
- Table of Contents
- A Theological Perspective for Creating a New Food System
- Assessing Major Energy Options
- Loving my Neighbor in the Whole of God's Creation
- Nuclear Power, ANWR, and Global Warming
- Sustainable Energy Futures: Economic and Ecological Ramifications of U.S. Energy Policy
- The Justice of War on Iraq
- Redesigning Humans: The Final Frontier
February 2003
- Table of Contents
- Am I Righteous or What? I Drive a Honda Civic That Gets 40 MPG!
- Interpreting the Islamic Ethics of War and Peace
- Justification for Violence in Islam: Part I, Introductory Remarks
- Justification for Violence in Islam: Part II, The Interplay between Religion and Power in Islam
- Justification for Violence in Islam: III: Jih_d as a Defensive Strategy or a Means of "Calling"?
- Justification for Violence in Islam: IV: The Need for Legitimate Authority to Sanction Violence in the Name of God
- Justification for Violence in Islam: V. The Law of Rebellion
- Justification for Violence in Islam: Part VI, Pacifist Activism in Islamic Legal System
- Justification for Violence in Islam: Part VII, Martyrdom, the Peak of Activism in Islam
- Justification for Violence in Islam: Part VIII, Quietism rather than Pacifism in Islam
- Justification for Violence in Islam: Part IX, Quietist Authoritarianism and Activist Radicalism
- Justification for Violence in Islam: Part X, Concluding Remarks
- The Authority of the Church in the World: A New Testament Perspective
January 2003
- Table of Contents
- Ethics and the Promise of God: Moral Authority and the Church’s Witness
- God and Justice: The Word and the Mask
- Inhabiting the Christian Narrative: An Example of the Relationship Between Religion and the Moral Life
- Is Just-War Reasoning a Helpful Tool for Evaluating Bush' Bluff (?) towards Iraq?
- Martin Luther: A Pure Doctrine of Faith
- Models of Oversight: A Paper for a Joint Meeting of Convocation of Teaching Theologians and Bishops’ Academy
- The Debate over Ordained Service by Homosexual Persons in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
- Sharing as a Central Practice in the Economy of God
- God and Justice: The Word and the Mask
December 2002
- Table of Contents
- Puckering up for Postmodern Kissing: Civil Society and the Lutheran Entwinement of Just Peace/Just War
- Homosexuality in the Danish Lutheran Church
- Luther's Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms in the Context of his Theology
- Sweden, Stem Cell Research and Ethics: Two Weaknesses of the Debate
- The Justice of War against Saddam’s Regime: Counting the Cost
- The War on Terrorism and the Problem of Military Intervention: Using Just War Theory to Frame Foreign Policy Debate
- A Review of The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice by Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel
November 2002
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Search for Just Peacemaking
- Facing Iraq With Christian Courage
- Infinite Forgiveness for a Culture Based on Peace
- Nonviolent Responses to Terrorism: Some Recent United Nations Initiatives
- Our Accountability for Afghan Civilian Deaths: Some Insights from Shakespeare's Henry V
- The Problem of Total War in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Traditions
- What's the Alternative to Military Action against Iraq?
October 2002
- Table of Contents
- Rumors of War: The Need for a Lutheran Voice
- Giving Moral Guidance in the Congregation: One Pastor's Point of View
- A Message for the City of New York: Interfaith Memorial Service
- Perspective of African American Youth Leadership in the Lutheran Church
- A Review of The Courage to Lead: Leadership in the African American Urban Church by James H. Harris
- Thinking the Unthinkable: Just Deliberation on War
- "Nuggets of Wisdom and Grace": A Review of Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living by Peter Gomes
- Identity within the Ethical Formulations of the African American Family
- The Ohio School Voucher Case