Captive to Christ, Open to the World

In his wide-ranging and engaging collection of interviews, Brian Brock discusses how Christian faith makes a difference to life in the modern world. Beginning with a discussion of teaching Christian ethics in the contemporary academy, Brock takes up environmental questions, political and medical ethics, the modern city and Christian responsibility for it, energy use, the information age, agriculture, political consensus and coercion, and many other issues. The reader is thus offered a broad and incisive discussion of many contemporary topics in a brief, illuminating, but never superficial manner. The unusual conversational style of the book allows strikingly clear, creative and concrete theological connections to emerge in the spaces between moral questions rarely thought of as linked. As the title suggests, the running theme of the interviews is being bound to Christ and placed into the contemporary world. Brock's theological readings of contemporary cultural trends are vigorous, unapologetic and insightful, and they offer delightful surprises as well as fertile new ways through the sterile impasses of many issues currently being debated in the public square." "Captive to Christ, Open to the World" provides an accessible introduction to Brock's previous works and an excellent starting point for those interested in fresh theological insights into contemporary ethical questions. Brian Brock is Reader in Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of "Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture" 2007 and "Christian Ethics in a Technological Age" 2010, and co-editor of "Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church" 2007 and "Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader" 2012 with John Swinton. Kenneth Oakes is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of T?bingen. He is the author of "Karl Barth on Theology and Philosophy" 2012 and "Reading Karl Barth: A Companion to the Epistle to the Romans" 2011. His articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as "Modern Theology", "International Journal of Systematic Theology" and "The Thomist". "What a joy it is to sit in on a conversation with someone who 'grew up in a little Bible church in an industrial backwater in Texas' and who now calls an ancient Scottish university his home. Brian expresses a great delight employing his profound Christian faith to engage the world. Anyone who reads this book is in for a great delight." John Nagle, University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

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Author(s) - Brian / Kenneth Brock /Oakes | Brian / Kenneth Brock /Oakes

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ISBN - 9780718893774

Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm

Page Count - 159