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  • Ethics And The Gulf War
    Kenneth L. Vaux
    This book elucidates the great just war traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, evaluating the key events of the war in light of the religious rhetoric. It is fascinating for scholars and laypersons coming to this subject from almost any area of interest. ...
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    80,23 €

  • Second Sermons
    Kenneth L. Vaux / Kenneth LVaux
    While serving as Interim Pastor in the 1993-1994 church year, Kenneth Vaux announced a year-long sermon series entitled 'Intimations of the Sacred.' Building on the concepts of William Wordsworth that the simple items of nature--leaves, songs, snowflakes, and gestures of kindness--hint to us the mysteries of the divine, we assemble here a selection of these 'Second Sermons,' wh...
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    21,41 €

  • Ethics and the Wars of Insurgency
    Kenneth L. Vaux / Kenneth LVaux
    Ethics of Wars of Insurgency is my fifth study on 'the ethics of war and peace.' It spans a twenty-year period of perplexing war and peace history focusing on the theological and ethical aspects of American foreign policy analysis from Somalia to Rwanda to Bosnia, concluding with present activities involving Syria--and the concurrent events of ending the wars in Iraq and Afghan...
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    21,41 €

  • For Such a Time as This
    Kenneth L. Vaux / Kenneth LVaux
    This third volume of Ken Vaux’s memoirs covers the calendar year of 2012 which focused on (1) teaching in the Evanston church as this body struggled to be both evangelical in theology and oriented to social justice in the community. We searched together for having what it takes to be a 'University Church'--preaching and teaching a credible and relevant message and living out a ...
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    23,16 €

  • The Ministry of Vincent Van Gogh in Religion and Art
    Kenneth L. Vaux / Kenneth LVaux
    The Ministry of Vincent Van Gogh in Religion and Art surveys the historical venues where Van Gogh’s life and work unfolded--Aldersgate, England, Amsterdam, Au Borinage, Antwerp, Asnieres-sur-Seine, Arles, Auvers-sur-Oise--culminating in an assessment of his legacy. Arguing that he is a painter-evangelist, a man of authentic religious calling, it demonstrates a novel thesis that...
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    24,88 €

  • While I Have Being
    Kenneth L. Vaux / Kenneth LVaux
    This diary is a fine-grained, often daily, theological reflection on the author’s final ponderings on his ordeal with a serious illness, a concluding sabbatical, a last year of teaching, a culminating lecture, presiding at Eucharist, and summarial notes about 'what God is doing in the world.' Amid all these meanderings it holds the lectionary of the biblical and liturgical cale...
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    25,77 €

  • Journey Into an Interfaith World
    Kenneth L. Vaux / Kenneth LVaux
    In this comprehensive volume, Dr. Kenneth L. Vaux explores the shared theological ground of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-the common God, the common good, the common word, and the common work. Based on the premise that the three Abrahamic faiths are given by God for some purpose in God’s universal history, Journey Into An Interfaith World traces the ways in which these faith...
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    31,94 €

  • Ministry on the Edge
    Kenneth L. Vaux / Kenneth LVaux
    Ministry on the Edge tells the story of Dr. Kenneth Vaux’s long-standing career as theologian and minister--the first bio-ethicist, a civil rights advocate, and interfaith pioneer. Through a collection of essays, articles, and sermons, Vaux traces his prophetic assessment of important ethical issues from the perspective of theology and religion. He offers readers a deeper appre...
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    31,91 €

  • America in God’s World
    Kenneth L. Vaux / Kenneth LVaux
    America in God’s World argues that human injustice in social-policy areas such as security, economy, and ecology can be traced to defective theology/ethics abroad in the land. Renewing biblical theology and ethics, and finding new ways to appropriate this wisdom into public policy, can bring renewal to our national life and help heal and reconcile our troubled world. ...
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    21,38 €

  • An Abrahamic Theology for Science
    Kenneth L. Vaux / Kenneth LVaux
    Kenneth Vaux advocates an Abrahamic theology as a dynamic and ethical axis for science and technology and argues for its continuing salience for a vital and humane science. He demonstrates a historical correlation between an Abrahamic theological tradition (monotheism and venturism) and the rise of science. Vaux illustrates these developments in the work of six scientists: Avic...
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    24,03 €

  • Ethics and the Gulf War
    Kenneth L. Vaux
    Kenneth Vaux elucidates the great just war traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, evaluating the key events of the Gulf War in light of the religious rhetoric used by both sides. Religious and ethical appeals played a major role in winning support not just of the U.S. and Iraqi peoples but of public opinion worldwide. Vaux demonstrates the wide gap between the religiou...
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    24,91 €

  • Ethics and the War on Terrorism
    Kenneth L. Vaux / Kenneth LVaux
    Dr. Kenneth Vaux, Professor of Theological Ethics at Garrett Evangelical Seminary, examines the U.S. led war on terrorism from an Abrahamic theological and ethical perspective. Vaux examines just-war theory and applies various traditions to the current war in Afghanistan. His reflections range from holy war in the Hebrew scripture, the Qu’ran and Constantinian Christianity to ...
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    18,87 €