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Resistance and Theological Ethics
Robert L. Stivers

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004

Resistance and Theological Ethics collects the edited and updated essays that emerged from the meeting of the Theological Educators for Presbyterian Social Witness in Geneva, Switzerland and southern France in 1999. These writings from educators and ethicists combine to sound a clarion call for the church to stand in resistance to social, economic and political forces that threaten--while embracing those that foster--social justice, peace and ...

Reformed Faith and Economics
Robert L. Stivers

University Press of America, 1989

Churches in the Reformed tradition have historically sought to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ into dialogue with social institutions on ethical issues. These papers on economic justice seek to bring this dialogue into the late 20th century by relating the Bible and Reformed theology to contemporary problems. These thirteen essays share a distinctly Reformed Presbyterian perspective and stress the contributions of John Calvin and a long line of ...

Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach
Robert L. Stivers, Christine E. Gudorf, ...

Orbis Books, 2005

The Public Vocation of Christian Ethics
Beverly Wildung Harrison, Robert L. Stivers

Pilgrim Pr, 1987

Refounding Public Administration
Gary L. Wamsley, Robert N. Bacher, ...

Sage Publications, Inc, 1990

Refounding Public Administration redefines the legitimate role of the public administrator and creates a normative theory of the development of American public administration. The Carter and Reagan administrations initiated a policy of `bureaucrat bashing'. It was in response to this that Wamsley organized the Blacksburg Conference, an academic meeting with the sole purpose of analyzing the present and future development of public ...