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This book renews faith, hope, and love in the context of the many contemporary challenges in many unique ways. It is an ecumenical collection of papers, equally divided between Catholic and Protestant positions, that seek to radically renew the classical doctrine of faith, hope, and love, and argues for their essential connection to the praxis of justice. It contains eight different approaches, each represented by a distinguished theologian and addressing different aspects of the issues and followed by insightful and critical responses. It does not merely seek to renew the theological virtues but to also reconstruct them in the demanding context of justice and the contemporary world, nor is it simply a treatise on justice but a theoretical and practical reflection on justice as vital expressions of faith in God, hope in God, and love of God. A non-dogmatic and non-ideological approach, it accommodates both conservative and liberal positions, and avoids the separation of the theological virtues from the demands of the contemporary world as well as the separation of justice talk from the theological context of faith, hope, and love. It seeks above all to renew, not merely repeat, the classical doctrine of faith, hope, and love in the contemporary context of the urgency of justice, and to do so ecumenically, comprehensively, and from a variety of perspectives and aspects.  Free Download Kory P. Schaff Lecturer in Philosophy C, "Fair Work: Ethics, Social Policy, Globalization " English | ISBN: 1786601761 | 2017 | 150 pages | PDF | 3 MB Fair Work explores topics relating to work and labor at the intersection of ethics, social justice, and public policy. The volume brings together essays by scholars in philosophy, education, economics, and law that draw our attention to significant issues raised by the transformation of modern work. The first part examines work in the context of traditional ethical issues such as virtue, dignity, and justice, while the second part includes critical investigations at the intersection of ethics, social policy, and globalization on topics such as education and job credentials, happiness in the workplace, women and exploitation, open borders and migrant labor, and human rights. This volume will be of interest to students, professors, social scientists, policy makers, and informed citizens trying to understand the complex issues facing workers in the era of globalization.  Free Download Fair Play by Louise Hegarty English | 3 April 2025 | ISBN: 1035036134 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 1.6 MB This is a murder mystery.  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Free Download Fabric of the Frontier: Prospection, Use, and Re-Use of Stone from Hadrian's Wall by Rob Collins, Ian Kille, Kathleen O'Donnell English | June 30, 2023 | ISBN: 1789259509, 9781789259513 | True EPUB | 184 pages | 121 MB What is Hadrian's Wall made of, where did this material come from and how has it been reused in other buildings in the communities that emerged in the centuries after the Roman Empire? By studying the fabric of Hadrian's Wall using a geological approach combined with archaeological methods, is it possible to refine our answers to these questions? This study describes how the relationship between the geology of the Wall's landscape and its fabric may be used to further understand the Wall and presents a significant set of new geological and archaeological data on the Wall's stones from across the length of the Wall. |
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