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Ethics and the Wars of Insurgency
Somalia to Syria
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
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...
While I Have Being
Winterreise (Winter Journey)
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
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...
Second Sermons
Intimations of the Eternal
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
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...
by Kenneth L. Vaux
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
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...
Ministry on the Edge
Reflections of an Interfaith Pioneer, Civil Rights Advocate, and the First Bioethicist
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
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,...
For Such a Time as This
Evanston Killings, Election, Ethics Consult
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
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...
A Greek Reader for Chase and Phillips
Selections from Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
This companion reader to Chase and Phillips, A New Introduction to Greek, (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961) is a compilation of slightly edited "real Greek" from Plato, Xenophon, Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, and the Septuagint. The reader has a preface introducing...
Come Follow Me
Reflections on the Markan Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The message of Jesus Christ is timeless, and has never been more relevant than in our own day. Jesus' life, ministry, and teachings have inspired billions of people throughout the ages to follow him. The Gospel of Mark was the first gospel written, and presents the story of Jesus in a way that is...
Pastoral Care, Health, Healing, and Wholeness in African Contexts
Methodology, Context, and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Pastoral theologians from Congo, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address, in this book, the issues of leadership, Ubuntu (community), gender-based violence, political violence, healing, and deliverance faced by pastors and ministers in African contexts today. Drawing on biblical, theological,...
Shifting Allegiances: Networks of Kinship and of Faith
The Women’s Program in a Syrian Mosque
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
What happens when Muslim women gather together at the mosque to read the Qur'an, learn, and pray? How does family loyalty interact with mosque attendance for women? This book explores the growing Muslim women's piety movement through looking at one women's program in a Syrian suburban mosque. Community...
Un homme d'action
De l'hôpital à la politique
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
La grippe A ? « Une grippette ! » ; les frasques de Strauss-Kahn ?v« Tout le monde savait ! » ; Sarkozy ? « Une revanche à tout prix ! » Depuis des années Bernard Debré distille les petites phrases assassines. Mais parler franc n’empêche pas un retour distancié sur plus de soixante années...
Tokyo, ville flottante
Scène urbaine, mises en scène
Language: French
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Pour l’anthropologue François Laplantine, découvrir Tokyo, c’est d’abord se défaire des images et idées préconçues, se laisser surprendre, accueillir les émotions et observer la scène urbaine telle qu’elle se livre et s’expose.
Attentif aux transformations du paysage citadin, aux...
by Robert Hue
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1994
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1994
Si le communisme modèle soviétique a fait faillite, le communisme demeure un courant bien vivant. Il vient de loin dans notre histoire. Il croise nombre des aspirations d'aujourd'hui. Être utile, dans le présent de l'action comme dans l'invention d'un nouvel avenir, c'est l'ambition de Robert...