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Conscience in Conflict

How to Make Moral Choices, Third Edition

By: Kenneth R. Overberg

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Conscience in Conflict

How to Make Moral Choices, Third Edition

By: Kenneth R. Overberg

“What ought we to do?” In this third edition of Conscience and Conflict: How to Make Moral Choices, Jesuit theologian Kenneth Overberg discusses the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic church, homosexuality, stem-cell research, globalization, terrorism and preemptive war, euthanasia, artificial conception and contraception, managed care and other tough issues that confront us as individuals and as global communities.

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1532661320

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Roots & Branches

Grounding Religion in Our Human Experience

By: Kenneth R. Overberg

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Roots & Branches

Grounding Religion in Our Human Experience

By: Kenneth R. Overberg

Kenneth Overberg has written a gem of a book that is greatly needed both in introductory courses in theology and in parish renewal programs. In attempting to explore the complex relationship between human experience and organized religion, Overberg begins with an appreciation of the transcendent depths of human experience, with the realization that there is 'more there than meets the eye,' and moves skillfully on to the ways in which modern people can reflect and articulate their experience of depth. He then draws upon both Jewish and Christian roots, expressed through the experience of Moses and Jesus, to demonstrate how our experience can be clarified, challenged, and enlarged through encounter with these traditions without the tired apologetics. In addition, as he develops the communal nature of such traditional religions he does not shy away from their attendant problems and constant need for reform. Overberg writes with disarming clarity. He has taken the jargon of the theological vernacular and has put it into words we can both understand and use. Indeed, this is essential if we are ever to renew the churches from the roots up. Highly recommended for parish renewal programs, introductory courses in theology, and for private explorations. --Good News 17.1 (January 1990) "Roots and Branches is clear, concise, challenging toward reflection, with enough theological references to make it stimulating to the parish audience without being overbearing. In particular, what caught my attention was the chapter on 'Corrupting Trends.'" --Jane Myers, Director of Faith Formation "Father Overberg presents contemporary theology incisively and yet with a simplicity that can be understood by the average reader. His approach begins where people live, in the experience of love, loss, sorrow and joy: in the highs and lows of everyday events. He demonstrates that it is in such human experience that one can meet the 'Beyond within,' the mysterious God for whom so many of us search. This book will prove useful in adult religious education, in the many growing renewal movements, and in the RCIA." --Brennan Hill, author of Jesus the Christ and Exploring Catholic Theology: God, Jesus, Church, and Sacrament

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The Mystery of God and Suffering

Lament, Trust, and Awe

By: Kenneth R. Overberg SJ

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The Mystery of God and Suffering

Lament, Trust, and Awe

By: Kenneth R. Overberg SJ

Humans have long searched for an adequate answer to an age-old question: If God is good, why do we suffer? An entire book of the Bible, Job, is dedicated to the problem of God and human suffering. Theologians across continents and centuries have debated the intricacies, inconsistencies, and assumptions the question elicits. And of course, many have turned to Jesus's own suffering, and his horrible death at the cross, in search of understanding. All too often, the resulting approaches to the mystery of suffering, though linked to the Jewish and Christian Scriptures and traditions, fail to satisfy contemporary hearts and minds. The Mystery of God and Suffering draws guidance from the Gospel of John and the letters to the Colossians and the Ephesians, and focuses on God's overflowing love in creation as a foundation for understanding Jesus's death and its implications for those who follow him. This work offers an alternative vision, one emphasizing incarnation over atonement, for all those who find themselves uneasy or even oppressed by the notion of a vindictive God who demands the suffering and death of his son. The Mystery of God and Suffering also speaks to a larger audience, comprised of all those who suffer and search for meaning in their suffering. With a focus on the eternal concepts of life and love that are not simply integral to but inseparable from a God who is good, as well as on insights of believers through the ages, The Mystery of God and Suffering offers wise guidance for our journey into the abyss of suffering.

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Fortress Press

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1506440053

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Ethics and AIDS

Compassion and Justice in a Global Crisis

By: Kenneth R. Overberg

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Ethics and AIDS

Compassion and Justice in a Global Crisis

By: Kenneth R. Overberg

To help raise and renew consciousness about this threat to the world, Ethics and AIDS: Compassion and Justice in Global Crisis summarizes the basics of the AIDS epidemic and presents key themes and insights based on the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. This ethical perspective is the result of decades of dialogue among Roman Catholics and other Christians, building on the strengths of the various traditions. This book offers a Christian view, with special emphasis on Roman Catholic thought; many of its ethical insights, however, can be shared by other faith traditions and by all people who desire to respond to the AIDS epidemic."--BOOK JACKET.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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Roots & Branches

Grounding Religion in Our Human Experience

By: Kenneth R. Overberg

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Grounding Religion in Our Human Experience

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Kenneth Overberg has written a gem of a book that is greatly needed both in introductory courses in theology and in parish renewal programs. In attempting to explore the complex relationship between human experience and organized religion, Overberg begins with an appreciation of the transcendent depths of human experience, with the realization that there is 'more there than meets the eye, ' and moves skillfully on to the ways in which modern people can reflect and articulate their experience of depth. He then draws upon both Jewish and Christian roots, expressed through the experience of Moses and Jesus, to demonstrate how our experience can be clarified, challenged, and enlarged through encounter with these traditions without the tired apologetics. In addition, as he develops the communal nature of such traditional religions he does not shy away from their attendant problems and constant need for reform. Overberg writes with disarming clarity. He has taken the jargon of the theological vernacular and has put it into words we can both understand and use. Indeed, this is essential if we are ever to renew the churches from the roots up. Highly recommended for parish renewal programs, introductory courses in theology, and for private explorations. --Good News 17.1 (January 1990) ""Roots and Branches is clear, concise, challenging toward reflection, with enough theological references to make it stimulating to the parish audience without being overbearing. In particular, what caught my attention was the chapter on 'Corrupting Trends.'"" --Jane Myers, Director of Faith Formation ""Father Overberg presents contemporary theology incisively and yet with a simplicity that can be understood by the average reader. His approach begins where people live, in the experience of love, loss, sorrow and joy: in the highs and lows of everyday events. He demonstrates that it is in such human experience that one can meet the 'Beyond within, ' the mysterious God for whom so many of us search. This book will prove useful in adult religious education, in the many growing renewal movements, and in the RCIA."" --Brennan Hill, author of Jesus the Christ and Exploring Catholic Theology: God, Jesus, Church, and Sacrament Kenneth R. Overberg, SJ, received his PhD in social ethics from the University of Southern California and is professor of theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati. Among his books and articles are seven national award-winners, including Conscience in Conflict (now in its third edition). His most recent books are Into the Abyss of Suffering and AIDS: Compassion and Justice in Global Crisis.

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1498204600

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Conscience in Conflict

How to Make Moral Choices, Third Edition

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How to Make Moral Choices, Third Edition

By: Kenneth R. Overberg

What ought we to do?" In this third edition of Conscience and Conflict: How to Make Moral Choices, Jesuit theologian Kenneth Overberg discusses the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic church, homosexuality, stem-cell research, globalization, terrorism and preemptive war, euthanasia, artificial conception and contraception, managed care and other tough issues that confront us as individuals and as global communities.

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Journey to Jerusalem

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Journey to Jerusalem

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In this book of biblical meditations, Kenneth Overberg takes a spiritual journey, of prayer and photos, to Jerusalem, and into the depths of our own souls.

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Journey to Jerusalem

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In this book of biblical meditations, Kenneth Overberg takes a spiritual journey, of prayer and photos, to Jerusalem, and into the depths of our own souls.

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The Mystery of God and Suffering

Lament, Trust, and Awe

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Lament, Trust, and Awe

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Conscience in Conflict

How to Make Moral Choices

By: Kenneth R. Overberg

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How to Make Moral Choices

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The book deals with the questions of authority, magisterium, infallibility and conscience in a balanced and respectful way."--from the Foreword by Bishop William A. Hughes "What ought we to do?" In Conscience and Conflict: How to Make Moral Choices, Jesuit theologian Kenneth Overberg tackles this question and the gray area surrounding ethical dilemmas by providing a readable and up-to-date process for coming to decisions about crucial contemporary personal and social questions. This third edition includes discussion of the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic church, homosexuality, stem cell research, globalization, terrorism and preemptive war. Overberg also addresses euthanasia, artificial conception and contraception, managed care and other tough issues that confront us as individuals and as global communities. "...makes available to a popular audience key developments in moral theology over the past 25 years."--Rev. Richard J. McCormick, S.J., James O'Brien Professor of Christian Ethics, University of Notre Dame "...assists the reader to come to grips personally with important questions in Catholic ethics today through the development of an intelligent, nuanced standpoint."--Lisa Sowle Cahill, professor of theology, Boston College

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Franciscan Media

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0867167238

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Disciples

Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times

By: Kenneth R. Overberg S. J.

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Disciples

Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times

By: Kenneth R. Overberg S. J.

Disciples develops various aspects of the moral-spiritual life, the life of discipleship, in the midst of the blessings and challenges of everyday lives. Blessings include the wisdom of the scriptures, the grace of Eucharistic celebrations, and areas of renewal begun in Vatican II. Challenges include relativism, indifference, poverty, sickness.

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Ethics and AIDS

Compassion and Justice in a Global Crisis

By: Kenneth R. Overberg

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Compassion and Justice in a Global Crisis

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Truth, Faith, and Reason

Scripture, Tradition, and John Paul II

By: Kenneth M. Sayre

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Truth, Faith, and Reason

Scripture, Tradition, and John Paul II

By: Kenneth M. Sayre

John Paul II’s Faith and Reason was written against a background of Catholic scholarship focusing notably on the New Testament, St. Augustine’s Confessions, St. Thomas’s De Veritate, and the encyclicals of various pre-Vatican II popes. A detailed, textually based critique of these early sources reveals inconsistencies and conceptual errors that are shown to carry over into Faith and Reason. John Paul II’s treatment of reason, in particular, turns out to be aberrant to the point of incoherence. It is inconceivable how this reason could join with faith in a way that lifts the human spirit to a contemplation of truth, as stated in the Preface of the encyclical. There is another sense of reason, however, which demonstrably is capable of cooperating with faith to achieve this effect. This reason is free from the fetters of Neo-Scholasticism that keep John Paul II’s reason grounded. The present study joins forces with the encyclical with a detailed example of this other sense of reason in action. In this example, new truths come to light regarding the complex relation between the first and the second great commandments.

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Conscience in Conflict

Conscience in Conflict

Roots & Branches

Roots & Branches

The Mystery of God and Suffering

The Mystery of God and Suffering

Ethics and AIDS

Ethics and AIDS

Roots & Branches

Roots & Branches

Conscience in Conflict

Conscience in Conflict

Journey to Jerusalem

Journey to Jerusalem

Journey to Jerusalem

Journey to Jerusalem

The Mystery of God and Suffering

The Mystery of God and Suffering

Conscience in Conflict

Conscience in Conflict

Disciples

Disciples

Ethics and AIDS

Ethics and AIDS

Truth, Faith, and Reason

Truth, Faith, and Reason

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