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Ministry on the Edge

Reflections of an Interfaith Pioneer, Civil Rights Advocate, and the First Bioethicist

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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Ministry on the Edge

Reflections of an Interfaith Pioneer, Civil Rights Advocate, and the First Bioethicist

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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 from the perspective of theology and religion. He offers readers a deeper appreciation of the ethical implications of human and civil rights; medical and healthcare issues (such as abortion, stem-cell research, transplantation, death and dying); public policy; science and technology; war and interfaith conflict. By modeling a way of thinking through the questions that matter most, he helps readers find their own theological lens for wrestling with important moral and ethical concerns. Vaux's reflections are universal, exploring theology and ministry "on the edge"--the boundary between Godly and worldly, sacred and secular, evangelical and ethical--what Bonhoeffer called the boundaries of good and evil, truth and falsehood, hope and despair.

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1608995062

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While I Have Being

Winterreise (Winter Journey)

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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While I Have Being

Winterreise (Winter Journey)

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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 these meanderings it holds the lectionary of the biblical and liturgical calendar in one hand and the newspaper in the other (K. Barth). Events during this time span were transformative and world shaking--and found resonance in my personal drama. One finds art and music, faith and politics. The reader will easily slip one's own story into this narrative. My purpose is precisely this--to offer symbiotic and symbolic story on life and its meaning.

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1620323370

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9781620323373

America in God's World

Theology, Ethics, and the Crises of Bases Abroad, Bad Money, and Black Gold

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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America in God's World

Theology, Ethics, and the Crises of Bases Abroad, Bad Money, and Black Gold

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

America in God's World argues that human injustice in social-policy areas such as security, economy, and ecology can be traced to defective theology/ethics abroad in the land. Renewing biblical theology and ethics, and finding new ways to appropriate this wisdom into public policy, can bring renewal to our national life and help heal and reconcile our troubled world.

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1498274676

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Second Sermons

Intimations of the Eternal

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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Second Sermons

Intimations of the Eternal

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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 of the divine, we assemble here a selection of these "Second Sermons," which include themes such as Bach and Mozart, Calvin, Wesley and Ghandi, Healing and Resurrection, Reconciliation and Redemption. Here, one can reenact C. S. Lewis' The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, finding a magical world as one enters into the realm within the wardrobe. Lions and Unicorns, Princes, Queens, ships and storms all rest as an in-depth screen behind the door of your schoolhouse or your grandfather's attic. The sermons seek to transpose the reader from the realm of the mundane to the supernal and back again.

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1498222900

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9781498222907

Journey Into an Interfaith World

Jews, Christians, and Muslims in a World Come of Age

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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Journey Into an Interfaith World

Jews, Christians, and Muslims in a World Come of Age

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

In this comprehensive volume, Dr. Kenneth L. Vaux explores the shared theological ground of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-the common God, the common good, the common word, and the common work. Based on the premise that the three Abrahamic faiths are given by God for some purpose in God's universal history, Journey Into An Interfaith World traces the ways in which these faith movements flow together from and into each other in synergistic ways. At the same time, the book reveals how each fraternal faith has missed the mark in disassociating from its sibling traditions. Vaux's "journey" examines the spiritual genealogy shared by the three cognate faiths--from whom we come--as well as the mutual spiritual ontology--to whom we belong. "All three traditions echo the same refrain: 'Do we not belong to One God?

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1498272568

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Ethics And The Gulf War

Religion, Rhetoric, And Righteousness

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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Ethics And The Gulf War

Religion, Rhetoric, And Righteousness

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

The war on the ground and in the air over Kuwait and Iraq was not the only Gulf War being fought in early 1990. George Bush and Saddam Hussein were also battling for public opinion and for the perception of legitimacy for their actions. In this effort, both men as well as their spokespersons appealed to the just war theory of their religious traditions. In this perceptive and wide-ranging book, Kenneth Vaux elucidates the great just war traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, evaluating the key events of the war in light of the religious rhetoric used by both sides. From the first stirrings of conflict to its uncertain aftermath, religious and ethical traditions played a major role in winning support not just for the U.S. and Iraqi peoples but of public opinion worldwide. Throughout Vaux demonstrates the wide gaps between religious rhetoric and the political-military action it has been called on to support. Ethics and the Gulf War is not a typical ethical treatise; Vaux understands ethical reflection to encompass history, philosophy, psychology, ecology, theology, and eschatology. His book is a valuable contribution to the understanding of the Gulf War, and it is fascinating for scholars and laypersons coming to this subject from almost any area of interest.

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Routledge

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042971954X

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An Abrahamic Theology for Science

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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An Abrahamic Theology for Science

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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 science. Vaux illustrates these developments in the work of six scientists: Avicenna, Boyle, Schweitzer, and Teilhard, as well as contemporaries Amartya Sen and Leon Kass. In the course of his discussion, Vaux engages the contemporary dialogue between religion and science.

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1498276199

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For Such a Time as This

Evanston Killings, Election, Ethics Consult

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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For Such a Time as This

Evanston Killings, Election, Ethics Consult

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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 Church"--preaching and teaching a credible and relevant message and living out a vital witness; seeking honest responses to issues in church and state such as homosexuality, embodying concern for the poor and lively ministry in the neighborhoods of the parish. (2) That community was confronted with belief crisis and ethical challenge during the year with eight gun-killings of young people. The churches now had to move beyond the prevalent complacency, confront the racisim and disregard for the poor disband the apartheid of the village that existed even in black and white Ministeria and get real with what an interfaith community had to do to leaven and heal its own backyard. (3) For Such a Time as This also deals with global and national political issues such as an unwinding war in Iraq and Afghanistan and a new one arising in Syria--biblical theology being put to the test--and the provocative election of 2012 as the theological imagination was stirred by candidates Obama and Romney.

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155635942X

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Ethics and the Wars of Insurgency

Somalia to Syria

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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Ethics and the Wars of Insurgency

Somalia to Syria

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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 involving Syria--and the concurrent events of ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This study highlights the theological themes of prophecy and biblical teaching and the ethical themes of human rights, violence, and peacemaking. The thesis of Ethics and the Wars of Insurgency is that only theological and ethical analysis can fathom the depths of meaning and appropriate action in these vital areas of policy and strategy in American and world affairs.

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1625641834

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Ethics and the War on Terrorism

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Ethics and the War on Terrorism

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

Dr. Kenneth Vaux, Professor of Theological Ethics at Garrett Evangelical Seminary, examines the U.S. led war on terrorism from an Abrahamic theological and ethical perspective. Vaux examines just-war theory and applies various traditions to the current war in Afghanistan. His reflections range from holy war in the Hebrew scripture, the Qu'ran and Constantinian Christianity to the Crusades, Christian pacifism, the American War of Independence, and 20th Century Wars (World Wars I and II, Vietnam, Somalia, Bosnia and the Israeli-Arab wars). Vaux ends with the fatal trifurcation: the disjunction among Christianity, Islam and Judaism as the challenge before us.

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An Abrahamic Theology for Science

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Being Well

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

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Being Well

By: Kenneth L. Vaux

Ken Vaux examines the characteristics of the human quest for life and health. Being Well offers case studies around issues such as procreation and genetic medicine, making it ideal for informed conversation among adults gathered for reading and discussion.

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For Such a Time as This

Evanston Killings, Election, Ethics Consult

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For Such a Time as This

Evanston Killings, Election, Ethics Consult

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Second Sermons

Intimations of the Eternal

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Intimations of the Eternal

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Ministry on the Edge

Reflections of an Interfaith Pioneer, Civil Rights Advocate, and the First Bioethicist

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Reflections of an Interfaith Pioneer, Civil Rights Advocate, and the First Bioethicist

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Ethics and the War on Terrorism

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Ethics and the Gulf War

Religion, Rhetoric, and Righteousness

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Ethics and the Gulf War

Religion, Rhetoric, and Righteousness

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Kenneth Vaux elucidates the great just war traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, evaluating the key events of the Gulf War in light of the religious rhetoric used by both sides. Religious and ethical appeals played a major role in winning support not just of the U.S. and Iraqi peoples but of public opinion worldwide. Vaux demonstrates the wide gap between the religious rhetoric and the political-military action it was called on to support.

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