Christianity Today 2025 Book Award Finalist (Academic Theology)"In the beginning, God created . . ." Thus begins the Bible's story of a long conversation between God and creatures, one in which humans are often the least edifying contributors. They need to learn what it means to confess themselves creatures if they are to begin to understand what it means to be human and how to live.Joining Creation's Praise, a major state...

In this wide-ranging and engaging collection of interviews, Brian Brock discusses how Christian faith makes a difference for 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 to it, energy use, the information age, agriculture, political consensus and coercion, and many other issues. The reader is thus offered a bro...

'With Summer Harvest, the Australian poet Brian Brock has offered us a feast of issues and moments worthy of serious consideration. His poetry is a conversation, a correspondence, a way of talking about things that truly matter; the paradoxical decay and drift of natural habitats beside human rights violations. We learn about the poet too; his service to country, his encyclopaedic knowledge of flora and fauna, his incredible grasp of the importance of marine biology, his lifelong ...

Leading ethicist and pastoral theologian Brian Brock reflects on the challenge of disability, refuting widely held misconceptions and helping readers respond well to the pastoral implications of disability. Brock, the father of a child with special needs, weaves together theological commentary with narrative reflection, offering rich theological wisdom for shepherding people with disabilities. He shows pastors and ministers-in-training that thinking more closely and theologically about dis...

Nel 1943, il diciottenne Pierre Berg, membro della Resistenza francese, scelse il momento meno opportuno per visitare la casa di un amico, perché lo fece anche la Gestapo. Venne scaraventato a Drancy, un campo di prigionia parigino, poi deportato ad Auschwitz, Dora e Ravensbrück.Scritto poco dopo la guerra, quando i ricordi di Berg erano più vividi, Una fortuna sfacciata racconta l’odissea di un ragazzo non ebreo in alcuni dei più brutali campi di concentramento nazisti. Il...

上帝怎麼會坐輪椅？！在很多基督徒心中，上帝全知全能、完美無瑕，而輪椅是給身上病痛、行動障礙的人坐的。大能的上帝，怎麼會像失能人士一樣坐輪椅？嗯，再讀讀聖經的但以理書第七章和以西結書第一章吧？曾經有終身坐輪椅的人，看到經文中的上帝的確坐在輪椅上，而深刻經歷神的同在。而且，上帝的兒子被釘上十字架，期間祂眼睛被蒙，形同失明；手腳被釘，不能行動；百姓誤解，兵丁羞辱；朝夕相處的門徒四散，連最親愛的天父都彷彿遺棄了祂……那是身體、社會、心理所有領域的全面失能。全宇宙的主，救贖全人類的大工，是在失能之中完成的。「失能」的意義，或許與我們本來想的不一樣；我們對於「健全」的渴望，可能並不那麼健全─這就是《坐輪椅的上帝：從失能神學擁抱基督身體的多樣性》想要告訴我們的事。作者博恩壘從現代教會牧養失能者的不足之處談起；接著剖析新、舊約中有關醫治、殘疾的諸多故事，指出受到現代西方醫學觀影響的讀經盲點；他再進一步梳理「失能與罪」、「上帝的形像」、「屬靈恩賜」等神學傳統，一層層地挑戰讀者檢視自己對於「失能／...

The ailments of the contemporary church are remarkably similar to those suffered by the fractious Corinthian church in the first century. This is the challenge presented in The Malady of the Christian Body, a two-volume commentary by Brian Brock and Bernd Wannenwetsch. The manner in which Paul engages questions of factionalism, sexuality, legal conflict, idolatry, dress codes, and eating habits reveals that neither the malady he diagnoses nor the therapy he offers track the dominant accoun...

The troubles and ills of the church today can only be understood and healed when Christians begin to face up to their hidden alliances with the Corinthians of the first century and embrace both the Apostle's diagnosis and therapy offered in the epistle. This is the challenge of The Malady and Therapy of the Christian Body, a two-volume commentary by two leading theologians that presents the fruits of a reading strategy that deliberately reflects ecclesial commitment by "reading the Apostle...

Stanley Hauerwas is arguably the most well-known figure in theological ethics of the last generation. Having published voluminously over the last 30 years, late in his career he has also published two volumes of essays discussing his corpus retrospectively, as well as a widely acclaimed memoir. The sheer volume of his work can be daunting to readers, and it is easy to get the impression that his retrospective volumes are restating positions developed earlier.Brian Brock delves into...

What might we learn if the study of ethics focused less on hard cases and more on the practices of everyday life? In Everyday Ethics, Michael Lamb and Brian Williams gather some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners of moral theology (including some GUP authors) to explore that question in dialogue with anthropology and the social sciences. Inspired by the work of Michael Banner, these scholars cross disciplinary boundaries to analyze the ethics of ordinary practices—from eatin...

The premise of Fallen Animals is that some how and in some way The Fall of Adam and Eve as related in the Bible has affected all living beings from the largest to the smallest, from the oldest to the youngest, regardless of gender and geography. The movement from the blissful arena of the Garden of Eden to the uncertain reality of exile altered in an overt or nuanced fashion the attitudes, perceptions, and consciousness of animals and humanity alike. Interpretations of these reformulations...

For two millennia Christians have thought about what human impairment is and how faith communities and society should respond to people with perceived impairments. But never has one volume collected the most significant Christian writings on disability. This book fills that gap.Brian Brock and John Swinton's Disability in the Christian Tradition brings together for the first time key writings by thinkers from all periods of Christian history - including Augustine, Aquinas, ...