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Theology and Culture

A Guide to the Discussion

By: D Stephen Long

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Theology and Culture

A Guide to the Discussion

By: D Stephen Long

Starting from a series of questions about the nature of our speaking to God, the author draws our attention to what we mean by culture, and how we use this very complex term both in our everyday language and especially in the language of faith. Culture is an exceedingly complex term that nearly everyone uses, yet few know what it means. This work examines various uses of the term culture in theology today.

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0227903536

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Tragedy, Tradition, Transformism

The Ethics Of Paul Ramsey

By: D. Stephen Long

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Tragedy, Tradition, Transformism

The Ethics Of Paul Ramsey

By: D. Stephen Long

In this original interpretation and critique of Paul Ramsey’s ethical thought, D. Stephen Long traces the development of one of the mid-twentieth century’s most important and controversial religious social thinkers. Long examines Ramsey’s early liberal idealism as well as later influences on his work, including the just war doctrine, Reinhold Niebu

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1000009440

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Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

By: D. Stephen Long

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Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

By: D. Stephen Long

This Very Short Introduction to Christian ethics introduces the topic by examining its sources and historical basis. D. Stephen Long presents a discussion of the relationship between Christian ethics, modern, and postmodern ethics, and explores practical issues including sex, money, and power. Long recognises the inherent difficulties in bringing together 'Christian' and 'ethics' but argues that this is an important task for both the Christian faith and for ethics. Arguing that Christian ethics are not a precise science, but the cultivation of practical wisdom from a range of sources, Long also discusses some of the failures of the Christian tradition, including the crusades, the conquest, slavery, inquistions, and the Galileo affair. Placing them in the context of the theory and practice of ethics and their historical persepctive, he notes the challenges they raise for Christian ethics. He concludes with a discussion of their implications in the modern era, considering how this affects our lives in the present age. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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0191614246

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CliffsQuickReview American Government

By: D. Stephen Voss,Abraham Hoffman,Paul Soifer

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CliffsQuickReview American Government

By: D. Stephen Voss,Abraham Hoffman,Paul Soifer

CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest classes. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions. Whether you are a student under pressure, an interested citizen trying to brush up, or a recent arrival trying to understand this new land in which you find yourself, CliffsQuickReview American Government can help. This guide introduces each topic, defines key terms, and carefully walks you through each sample problem step-by-step. In no time, you'll be ready to tackle the key concepts in this book such as The Declaration of Independence The Constitution and Bill of Rights Congress, the President, and the Judiciary Political parties Voting and elections Civil Liberties Economic and foreign policy CliffsQuickReview American Government provides an overview of the history, institutions, practices, and policies of the American government with plain words and useful formats, so that you can use your time efficiently. Use this reference in any way that fits your personal style for study and review — you decide what works best with your needs. Here are just a few ways you can search for topics: Use the free Pocket Guide full of essential information Get a glimpse of what you'll gain from a chapter by reading through the Chapter Check-In at the beginning of each chapter Use the Chapter Checkout at the end of each chapter to gauge your grasp of the important information you need to know Test your knowledge more completely in the CQR Review and look for additional sources of information in the CQR Resource Center Use the glossary to find key terms fast. With titles available for all the most popular high school and college courses, CliffsQuickReview guides are a comprehensive resource that can help you get the best possible grades.

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0544184823

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9780544184824

Calculated Futures

Theology, Ethics, and Economics

By: D. Stephen Long,Nancy Ruth Fox,Tripp York

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Calculated Futures

Theology, Ethics, and Economics

By: D. Stephen Long,Nancy Ruth Fox,Tripp York

Calculated Futures seeks a way forward by engaging economics as a social scientific discipline without subordinating theology to it.

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Baylor University Press

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1602580146

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On Teaching and Learning Christian Ethics

By: D. Stephen Long

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On Teaching and Learning Christian Ethics

By: D. Stephen Long

An expansion of the discipline of ethics demonstrates that Aquinas’s “infusing of virtue” makes better sense of the moral life than finding a method to guide action While teaching ethics is universally applauded, how one goes about it is much more difficult and contested than is often recognized. On Teaching and Learning Christian Ethics addresses what it means to teach and learn ethics through a thorough comparison of two ethicists, Henry Sidgwick and F. D. Maurice. Where Sidgwick understood ethics as developing a method for guiding voluntary action to what is right, Maurice maintained that ethics concerns life as a whole, and that requires placing it within a metaphysical and theological realm in which the good is much more definitive than right. This comparative history argues that Maurice’s use of Thomas Aquinas’s “infusing of virtue” makes better sense of the moral life of ordinary persons than the specialized, academic discipline Sidgwick bequeathed. Long expands the discipline of ethics through the central theme of his work: that moral life is a gift rather than an achievement. He provides a clear argument in favor of a more holistic approach to teaching ethics.

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Georgetown University Press

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1647124158

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9781647124151

Keeping Faith

An Ecumenical Commentary on the Articles of Religion and Confession of Faith in the Wesleyan Tradition

By: D. Stephen Long

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Keeping Faith

An Ecumenical Commentary on the Articles of Religion and Confession of Faith in the Wesleyan Tradition

By: D. Stephen Long

Keeping Faith offers resources to help Christians reclaim the importance of doctrine and thereby know and love well God and God's creation. Although it gives particular attention to the Wesleyan and Methodist tradition, it is of necessity an ecumenical effort. Neither the Wesleyans nor the Methodists invented Christian doctrine. In fact, the Wesleyan tradition contributes little that is distinctive or unique. This is a good thing, for unlike other disciplines where originality and uniqueness matter greatly, Christian doctrine depends on others and not the genius of some individual. Chesterton once said that Christianity is the democracy of the dead. In other words, doctrine depends on the communion of the saints. They help us speak of God as we should. We need to hear their voice. For this reason, this work is an ecumenical commentary on the Confession of Faith and Articles of Religion found in the Wesleyan tradition that also draws on ancient and modern witnesses to God's glory. It is ecumenical because it brings these doctrines into conversation with the broader Christian tradition. Doctrine unites us in a "communion," which is greater than any single denomination and makes us what we otherwise cannot be: one, holy, catholic and apostolic.

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1621894169

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Augustinian and Ecclesial Christian Ethics

On Loving Enemies

By: D. Stephen Long

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Augustinian and Ecclesial Christian Ethics

On Loving Enemies

By: D. Stephen Long

What is the relationship between the command to love one’s enemies and the use of violence and/or other coercive political means? This work examines this question by comparing and contrasting two important contemporary approaches to Christian ethics, neoAugustinian and the ecclesial or neoAnabaptist. It traces the complicated conversation that has taken place since John Howard Yoder took on Reinhold Niebuhr’s interpretation of the Anabaptists in the 1940’s. It consists of three parts. The first part traces the development of the Augustinian-Niebuhrian approach to ethics from Niebuhr through those who have advanced his work including Paul Ramsey, Timothy Jackson, Charles Mathewes, Eric Gregory, and Jennifer Herdt. It also examines the Augustinian ethics of Oliver O’Donovan, John Milbank and Nicholas Wolterstorff. Along with tracing the Augustinian approach and its trajectories through agapism, theology and the interpretation of Augustine, it identifies fifteen criticisms that this approach brings against the neoAnabaptists. The second part traces the origin of the ecclesial or neoAnabaptist approach, and then examines its relationship to, and criticism of, agapism, what theological doctrines are central and its interpretation of Augustine. Its purpose is primarily constructive by explaining the role that ecclesiology, Christology and eschatology have among the neoAnabaptists. The third part addresses the criticisms levied by Augustinians against the neoAnabaptists by drawing on the constructive theology in the second part. It intends to show where the Augustinian critics are correct, where they have missed key theological teachings, and where they misrepresent. It also assesses the summons to the nationalist project the Augustinians put to the neoAnabaptists. If this work is successful, this third part will not be defensive. It will instead illumine the reasons for the criticisms and suggest means by which the conversation that began between Yoder and Niebuhr can continue and possibly bear fruit for theological ethics in both its ecclesial and nationalist projects for generations to come.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1978702027

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Divine Economy

Theology and the Market

By: D. Stephen Long

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Divine Economy

Theology and the Market

By: D. Stephen Long

What has theology to do with economics? This first book to address the question directly will be welcomed by all those with an interest in exploring how theology can inform economic debate.

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Routledge

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1134588887

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The Art of Cycling, Living, and Dying

Moral Theology from Everyday Life

By: D. Stephen Long

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The Art of Cycling, Living, and Dying

Moral Theology from Everyday Life

By: D. Stephen Long

Forty years of avid bicycling came to a conclusion for D. Stephen Long in early October, 2020. Fearing his own imminent death required Long to reflect on life, on its beginnings, middle, and endings. This work uses the lessons learned from cycling, and the experience of the rapid onset of illness, to discuss God, friendship, racism, sexuality, justice, virtues, vices, and much more. It offers a moral theology but one more in keeping with how we take it up—not through theories but in the practices that make up everyday life. Attention to everyday life can help us live well and in so doing prepare us to die well.

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1666707155

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I, Psychopath

By: Stephen M. Kahn, Ph.D.

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I, Psychopath

By: Stephen M. Kahn, Ph.D.

One of the most fascinating segments of the deviant population is the anti social personality and particularly, the psychopath. This type of individual is the most enigmatic of all law breakers because of the ability to commit crimes in a totally random fashion. The unpredictability of this person’s behavior has always made it difficult for authorities to effect an apprehension in a timely manner. Until the psychopath is arrested, there is really no stopping the crimes that continually occur. The book is a fictional account of such a person and also a detailed development, rationale and actions as culled from the author’s years of experience in working with this type of personality.

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Speaking of God

Theology, Language and Truth

By: D. Stephen Long

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Speaking of God

Theology, Language and Truth

By: D. Stephen Long

In this theological tour de force D. Stephen Long addresses a key question in current theological debate: the conditions of the possibility of God-talk, along with attending questions about natural theology, fideism, and theological truth-claims. He engages not only the most significant contemporary theologians and philosophers on this score (Denys Turner, Bruce Marshall, Charles Taylor, Fergus Kerr) but also the legacy of twentieth-century theology (Barth, von Balthasar) and the analytic philosophical tradition from Wittgenstein to Davidson. Throughout, Long sustains a careful exegetical engagement with Aquinas, showing that what s at stake in contemporary theology is just how we inherit St. Thomas. / Central to Long s project is averting the charge of fideism so often laid at the feet of postliberal approaches (like his own). To that end Long argues for a (chastened) natural theology, while challenging any simple distinction between natural and confessional theology. / In joining these many voices into one conversation, Long does a remarkable job of surveying the current theological scene with respect to issues of language and truth, arguing for the need to deal head-on with classical questions of metaphysics. . . . An excellent and significant book. James K. A. Smith / Calvin College / Long s discussion of the topic of God and language offers a refreshingly original treatment of traditional approaches. His book cannot be ignored by anyone interested in this topic at any level. John Milbank / University of Nottingham

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080284572X

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The Goodness of God

Theology, the Church, and Social Order

By: D. Stephen Long

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The Goodness of God

Theology, the Church, and Social Order

By: D. Stephen Long

Stephen Long opens his erudite discussion of theology and ethics with the insistence that moral critique must emerge from a particular location, rather than from the fluid values of any "neutral" observer. Long sets out to put theology and ethics-as well as the church-in proper relation to one another. Ethics must be based in theology, not the other way around. Our "finite participation in the infinite make possible participation in a goodness beyond us." That goodness comes to us in the flesh of Jesus Christ, and the church is indispensable in drawing all people toward God's goodness. The church, a social ethic in itself, gives purpose and order to other social institutions, including family, government, and the market. "'The goodness of God'--such a simple phrase, such a profound (and maybe even distruptive) concept if we dare explore its implications. Not only does Steve Long lead us skilfully and smoothly through potentially difficult matters of theology and philosophy, he also brings home how our lives might be different if we really took the goodness of God to heart. "From matters of violence and economics to sexuality and family, Long takes his readers through a thicket of competing ideas, and leads them out the other side into greater clarity of vision, unity of purpose, and passion for God's good kingdom. Seminaries and Sunday schools alike will benefit from this scholarly but accessible volume." --Michael Budde, DePaul University D. Stephen Long is assistant professor of theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and codirector of the Center for Ethics and Values. He is the author of Divine Economy, a volume in Routledge's Radical Orthodoxy series.

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1556356757

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Saving Karl Barth

Hans Urs Von Balthasar's Preoccupation

By: D. Stephen Long

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Saving Karl Barth

Hans Urs Von Balthasar's Preoccupation

By: D. Stephen Long

An unlikely friendship: Balthasar's "conversations" with Barth -- Presenting and interpreting Karl Barth -- Collapse of Balthasar's interpretation -- The realm of God -- The realm of ethics -- The realm of the church: renewal and unity

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1451470142

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A Guide to the Theory, Administration, and Interpretation Of the Southern California Ordinal Scales of Development: Cognition—Second Edition

By: Stephen Dantzig, Psy. D.,Betty Jean Fentiman, MA,Michael Duris, Ph. D.

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A Guide to the Theory, Administration, and Interpretation Of the Southern California Ordinal Scales of Development: Cognition—Second Edition

By: Stephen Dantzig, Psy. D.,Betty Jean Fentiman, MA,Michael Duris, Ph. D.

A Guide to the Theory, Administration and Interpretation of the Southern California Scales of Development Scales of Cognition Second Edition takes a detailed look at the theory behind the scales of cognition as well as how to score and interpret the results. The results indicate where the students assessed are functioning across the developmental spectrum from infancy through formal adult logic in a manner that is age independent. The Guide details how to use the Scales with numerous groups of students with special needs, ranging from students with intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, autism, bilingual students and others. Cognition and language development is described with practical applications for working with preschool age students. Educational and vocational implications of the various levels of cognitive development are presented. Recommendations are suggested. One-third of proceeds will be donated to the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Hawaii.

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0359023258

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9780359023257

The Perfectly Simple Triune God

Aquinas and His Legacy

By: D. Stephen Long

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The Perfectly Simple Triune God

Aquinas and His Legacy

By: D. Stephen Long

A particularly nettlesome question is that around the relationship of the confession of God as a simple yet threefold being—the treatises of the one God and the Trinity. Although God as simple and Triune was widely accepted for over a millennium, simplicity has been widely critiqued and rejected by modern theology. The purported error is in conceiving God’s unity prior to the Triune persons, an error begun by Augustine and crystallized in Aquinas. The Perfectly Simple Triune God challenges this critique and reading of Aquinas as a misunderstanding of his doctrine of God. By refusing to begin theology with God’s oneness, who God is collapses into who God is for us, a loss of the biblical and dramatic character of God for us. D. Stephen Long posits that the two treatises were never independent, but inextricably related and entailing one another. Long provides a constructive rereading of Thomas Aquinas, tracing antecedents to Aquinas in the patristic tradition, and readings of him through to the Reformers, taking into account challenges to the classical tradition posed by modern and contemporary theology and philosophy to offer a robust articulation of divine Trinitarian agency for a contemporary age that adheres to broadly considered orthodox and ecumenical parameters.

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150641687X

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BEE BASICS

By: United States Department of Agriculture,Ph. D. Beatriz Moisset,Ph. D. Stephen Buchmann

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BEE BASICS

By: United States Department of Agriculture,Ph. D. Beatriz Moisset,Ph. D. Stephen Buchmann

Native bees are a hidden treasure. From alpine meadows in the national forests of the Rocky Mountains to the Sonoran Desert in the Coronado National Forest in Arizona and from the boreal forests of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska to the Ocala National Forest in Florida, bees can be found anywhere in North America, where flowers bloom. From forests to farms, from cities to wildlands, there are 4,000 native bee species in the United States, from the tiny Perdita minima to large carpenter bees. Most people do not realize that there were no honey bees in America before European settlers brought hives from Europe. These resourceful animals promptly managed to escape from domestication. As they had done for millennia in Europe and Asia, honey bees formed swarms and set up nests in hollow trees. Native pollinators, especially bees other than honey bees, have been pollinating the continent's flowering plants since long before the arrival of honey bees.

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Truth Telling in a Post-Truth World

By: D. Stephen Long

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Truth Telling in a Post-Truth World

By: D. Stephen Long

Where would we be without the truth telling of Moses, Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr.- and you? The choice is clear: truth, justice, and freedom, or lies, injustice, and bondage? The good life and a just society depend on truth telling- but are we more comfortable with lies and fake news?

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Wesley's Foundery Books

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1945935502

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Police Personalities: Why Cops Act The Way They Do

By: Ph. D. James R. Delung,Ed D. Stephen M. Hennessy

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Police Personalities: Why Cops Act The Way They Do

By: Ph. D. James R. Delung,Ed D. Stephen M. Hennessy

This book is an important addition to every police officer, recruit, or student of law enforcement's knowledge base. It helps explain why cops act like cops. The turbulent environment in which law enforcement currently operates draws close scrutiny and occasional shrill criticism from the far right, the far left, and the political center. It is an essential read to help understand the various ways law enforcement officers take in information and make decisions.

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1641847360

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Who You Gonna Call? Responding to a Medical Emergency with the Strategic National Stockpile

By: Stephen D. Prior,National Defense University

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Who You Gonna Call? Responding to a Medical Emergency with the Strategic National Stockpile

By: Stephen D. Prior,National Defense University

Prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent anthrax attacks, the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), known as the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile until March 2003, was an important component of the national medical response to a crisis, but one that had not yet been tested in a real emergency. That changed in the fall of 2001. Since the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon, and the later anthrax episodes, the cost of the SNS has grown from a roughly $50 million asset to one worth more than $600 million. The SNS is designed to supplement state and local public health agencies in the event of a biological or chemical terrorism incident anywhere and at any time in the United States or its territories. Federal authorities do not consider the stockpile a first response tool. Rather, its purpose is to bolster the response of a state or city government to a biological or chemical attack or other medical emergency that requires additional resources. The SNS is managed jointly by the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services (HHS). Its use is coordinated through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one of the major operating components of HHS. The stockpile comprises 12 separate “push packages,” each capable of reaching its designated destination within 12 hours of DHS authorization. Each push package includes caches of pharmaceuticals, antidotes, and medical supplies designed to provide a broad spectrum of assets in the early hours of an event. The push packages are positioned in strategically located, secure warehouses and delivered by commercial, express carriers. Additional, specially tailored supplies known as vendor managed inventory (VMI) can follow within 24 to 36 hours of an event. This paper reviews the history and current status of the SNS, provides an overview of its role in incident response, and reports on the testing of SNS deployment in recent terrorism exercises. The paper also explores some of the regulatory and legal issues that surround the use of the SNS and examines the dependence of the U.S. military on SNS supplies during crisis and consequence management support to civilians in the United States.

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