Rethinking Generosity

Author : Romand Coles
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801433412
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Generosity written by Romand Coles and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should generosity and ethical behavior call for receptivity and reciprocity forward? Political scientist Romand Coles explores how, through understanding, we might practice and inspire generosity with responsibility. Drawing from readings of Kant, Nietzsche, and others, Coles considers practical political implications, particularly for relations in civil society and among progressive social movements.

Author : John Rowell
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830857737
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Give or Not to Give written by John Rowell and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2007-01-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Rowell sets out a program that will enable affluent churches in the West to give generously across cultures without fear of promoting dependent, hierarchical relationships.

Author : Rodney Gage
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490898638
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethink Life written by Rodney Gage and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ARE YOU READY TO CHALLENGE THE NORM? Most of us approach life based upon childhood influences or what popular culture says is normal. When we understand the eternal purpose and role God has for our lives, it changes everything. In this book, authors Rodney and Michelle Gage will challenge you to ReThink Life from God’s perspective by looking at seven key areas of life.

Author : Ronald J. Sider
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 9781441201621
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Generosity written by Ronald J. Sider and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Generosity calls Christians to examine their priorities and their pocketbooks in the face of a scandalous tendency to overlook those among us who suffer while we live in practical opulence. This holistic approach to helping the poor goes far beyond donating clothes or money, envisioning a world in which faith-based groups work with businesses, the media, and the government to help end poverty in the world's richest nation. This updated edition includes current statistics, policy recommendations, and discussions covering everything from welfare reform, changes to Medicade, and the Social Security debate. "Sider's most important book since Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger."--Jim Wallis, author, God's Politics "Sider knows how to lift up people in need.... [An] important and challenging book."--John Ashcroft, former Attorney General of the United States

Author : Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822388995
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against War written by Nelson Maldonado-Torres and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-09 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nelson Maldonado-Torres argues that European modernity has become inextricable from the experience of the warrior and conqueror. In Against War, he develops a powerful critique of modernity, and he offers a critical response combining ethics, political theory, and ideas rooted in Christian and Jewish thought. Maldonado-Torres focuses on the perspectives of those who inhabit the underside of western modernity, particularly Jewish, black, and Latin American theorists. He analyzes the works of the Jewish Lithuanian-French philosopher and religious thinker Emmanuel Levinas, the Martiniquean psychiatrist and political thinker Frantz Fanon, and the Catholic Argentinean-Mexican philosopher, historian, and theologian Enrique Dussel. Considering Levinas’s critique of French liberalism and Nazi racial politics, and the links between them, Maldonado-Torres identifies a “master morality” of dominion and control at the heart of western modernity. This master morality constitutes the center of a warring paradigm that inspires and legitimizes racial policies, imperial projects, and wars of invasion. Maldonado-Torres refines the description of modernity’s war paradigm and the Levinasian critique through Fanon’s phenomenology of the colonized and racial self and the politics of decolonization, which he reinterprets in light of the Levinasian conception of ethics. Drawing on Dussel’s genealogy of the modern imperial and warring self, Maldonado-Torres theorizes race as the naturalization of war’s death ethic. He offers decolonial ethics and politics as an antidote to modernity’s master morality and the paradigm of war. Against War advances the de-colonial turn, showing how theory and ethics cannot be conceived without politics, and how they all need to be oriented by the imperative of decolonization in the modern/colonial and postmodern world.

Author : David Scott
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373025
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stuart Hall's Voice written by David Scott and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuart Hall’s Voice explores the ethos of style that characterized Stuart Hall’s intellectual vocation. David Scott frames the book—which he wrote as a series of letters to Hall in the wake of his death—as an evocation of friendship understood as the moral and intellectual medium in which his dialogical hermeneutic relationship with Hall’s work unfolded. In this respect, the book asks: what do we owe intellectually to the work of those whom we know well, admire, and honor? Reflecting one of the lessons of Hall’s style, the book responds: what we owe should be conceived less in terms of criticism than in terms of listening. Hall’s intellectual life was animated by voice in literal and extended senses: not only was his voice distinctive in the materiality of its sound, but his thinking and writing were fundamentally shaped by a dialogical and reciprocal practice of speaking and listening. Voice, Scott suggests, is the central axis of the ethos of Hall’s style. Against the backdrop of the consideration of the voice’s aspects, Scott specifically engages Hall’s relationship to the concepts of "contingency" and "identity," concepts that were dimensions less of a method as such than of an attuned and responsive attitude to the world. This attitude, moreover, constituted an ethical orientation of Hall’s that should be thought of as a special kind of generosity, namely a "receptive generosity," a generosity oriented as much around giving as receiving, as much around listening as speaking.

Author : James Hudnut-Beumler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1566995329
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generous Saints written by James Hudnut-Beumler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A constructive theology and ethics of money in the Christian life, this series addition is by James Hudnut-Beumler, dean and associate professor of religion and culture at Columbia Theological Seminary, and deals with vital questions. "What does the Lord require? what is the true meaning of the term 'commonwealth?' and how does the church build a stable base for its members to live ethical lives?" A positive approach to forming the basis for new thought and discussion.

Author : Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421429462
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generous Thinking written by Kathleen Fitzpatrick and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditating on how and why we teach the humanities, Generous Thinking is an audacious book that privileges the ability to empathize and build rather than simply tear apart.

Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802872948
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice in Love written by Nicholas Wolterstorff and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas S. Popkewitz
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791444030
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Educational Knowledge written by Thomas S. Popkewitz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of educational reform and change throughout the world, focusing on how issues of power and governance within states affect school practice and policy-making.