At a time when many despair of culture, Elshtain recovers the life-affirming essence of what it means to be human. Respected Christian ethicist Jean Bethke Elshtain finds in the tensions and tragedies of our turn-of-the-century society hope in the recovery of personhood. She explores the internal and external trappings that so easily lead us to forget how to be faithful to something other than ourselves. This is a work of political analysis, cultural criticism, and theological engagement. Elshtain suggests that much of what we rightly interpret as troubling presents fascinating interpretive occasions for Christians, who, of all people, are called to live in hope. She highlights in particular certain aspects of youth culture, taking up popular films like Seven and Titanic and tragedies like the shootings at Columbine High School. What she finds running through all of these are examples of courage and a search for a source of truth and meaning that seems to elude so many.
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Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago. One of today's foremost political theorists and public intellectuals, she is a contributing editor for "The New Republic" and a prolific writer.
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- Creation and Fall (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Vol. 3) by Dietrich Bonhoeffer on 11 pages
- The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity / The 1992 Bampton Lectures by Colin E. Gunton on page 113, page 114, and Back Matter
- The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Everything for Sale by Robert Kuttner on page 54, page 55, and page 58
- Eulogy for a Private Man by Fred Dings in Front Matter, page 37, and page 79
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- Powers, Weakness, and the Tabernacling of God by Marva J. Dawn on page 89, page 138, and Back Matter
- Gift and Task of Lutheran Higher Education, The by Tom Christenson on page 66, and Back Matter
- The Measure of International Law; Effectiveness, Fairness and Validity (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Council on International Law) by Canadian Counsel on International Law on page 257
- United We Serve: National Service and the Future of Citizenship by E. J., JR. Dionne in Back Matter
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