Lisa Cahill: 7 books

Los pobres… Los pobres están en el centro del Evangelio, están en el corazón del Evangelio, si quitamos a los pobres del Evangelio no podremos entender el mensaje completo de Jesucristo» (Papa Francisco). Las poderosas palabras del Papa remiten a un decisivo análisis social que expresa la decepción...

The field of bioethics was deeply influenced by religious thinkers as it emerged in the 1960s and early 1970s. Since that time, however, a seemingly neutral political liberalism has pervaded the public sphere, resulting in a deep suspicion of those bringing religious values to bear on questions of bioethics...

Massachusetts was first settled over 7,000 years ago. It has a long and storied history. From the Salem Witch Trials to the birthplace of Dr. Seuss, from Louisa May Alcott to Edgar Allen Poe, Massachusetts offers a range of fascinating, evocative, and historically important moments to explore and...

Global realities of human inequality, poverty, violence and ecological destruction call for a twenty-first-century Christian response which links cross-cultural and interreligious cooperation for change to the Gospel. This book demonstrates why just action is necessarily a criterion of authentic Christian...

Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century. Most of us are generally ill-equipped for dying. Today, we neither see death nor prepare for it. But this has not always been the case. In the early fifteenth...

This book is a contribution to the Christian ethics of war and peace. It advances peacebuilding as a needed challenge to and expansion of the traditional framework of just war theory and pacifism. It builds on a critical reading of historical landmarks from the Bible through Augustine, Aquinas, the...

Si el Dios cristiano es un Dios de amor y de justicia, la corrupción como abuso del poder otorgado mina esta imagen e impide la correspondiente experiencia de la presencia divina en la vida humana. Así pues, la corrupción es un mal personal y social fundamental que socava al agente moral y destruye...