Discerning Ethics, Hak Joon Lee
Discerning Ethics, Hak Joon Lee
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Synopsis

Racism. Immigration. Gun violence. Sexuality. Health care. The number of ethical issues that demand a response from Christians today is almost dizzying. How can Christians navigate such matters? What are faithful responses to these questions?Edited by two theologians with pastoral experience, this volume invites engagement with these issues and more by drawing on real-life experiences, and offering a range of responses to some of the most challenging moral questions confronting the church today.With an unflinching yet irenic approach, this resource can help Christians as they seek to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God.

About Hak Joon Lee

Hak Joon Lee (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author or editor of several books, including Intersecting Realities: Race, Identity, and Culture in the Spiritual-Moral Life of Young Asian Americans, The Great World House: Martin Luther King Jr. and Global Ethics, We Will Get to the Promised Land: Martin Luther King Jr.‘s Communal-Political Spirituality, and Covenant and Communication: A Christian Moral Conversation with Jürgen Habermas.

About Timothy Dearborn

Tim Dearborn (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is the former director of the Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute of Preaching at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books, including Short-Term Missions Workbook, Business as a Holy Calling?, and Beyond Duty: A Passion for Christ, a Heart for Mission.

About Mark Labberton

Mark Labberton is president of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He previously served as Lloyd John Ogilvie chair for preaching and director of the Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute for Preaching. Labberton came to Fuller after sixteen years as senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, California. Today he continues to contribute to the mission of the global church as a senior fellow of International Justice Mission. He is the author of The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor and The Dangerous Act of Worship.

About Matthew McAuliffe

Read by Matthew McAuliffe, Feodor Chin, Kate Mulligan, Brian Nishii, Jennifer Jill Araya, Kyle Tait, Eric G. Dove, Ralph Lister, Eileen Stevens, Richard Powers, Ann Richardson, Robertson Dean, Kevin Kenerly, Emily Pike Stewart, Christ Abell, and Bob Souer

About Feodor Chin

Feodor Chin, an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an actor classically trained at the American Conservatory Theater and UCLA. His acting career includes numerous credits in film, television, theater, and voice-over.

About Kate Mulligan

Kate Mulligan has acted with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for more than ten seasons in productions including Hairspray, Alice in Wonderland, and Sense and Sensibility. Her film and television work includes Being John Malkovich and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

About Brian Nishii

Brian Nishii is a multilingual Japanese narrator who has lent his voice to a wide range of projects, including over fifty audiobook titles. A specialist in East Asian themes, he enjoys telling compelling stories.

About Kyle Tait

Kyle Tait is a professionally trained voice actor and narrator in Atlanta, Georgia. His first brush with a microphone came in sports radio, calling baseball in the Atlanta Braves' organization. To pass the time in the off-season, he started voicing audiobooks, and a few years later he left baseball and went into narration full-time. Now his voice can be heard on a variety of audiobook and corporate voice-over outlets worldwide. When not in the studio, Tait can still be found moonlighting in the sports world, calling football, basketball, baseball, and softball on a variety of TV and radio outlets. He's also a studio host with IMG College, anchoring football and basketball broadcasts for schools like TCU, UConn, and Arizona.

About Eric G. Dove

Eric G. Dove is a full-time voice actor, musician, and author, who released his first novel, Ghosts of Royston, in 2013 and who has several Nashville song cuts to his name. The winner of multiple Earphones awards, he has narrated over seventy audiobooks. A native of Ohio, he lives in Charleston, South Carolina. For more information, visit ericgdove.com.

About Ralph Lister

Born in one of the unlikeliest of places-on the desk of the British High Commissioner in New Delhi, India-native British stage and film actor Ralph Lister lives happily in whatever reality he finds himself. His Audie-nominated audiobook work and best actor awards for both stage and film (2011 Grand Award and 2014 Eclipse Award, respectively) have led him into the delightfully strange worlds of the many characters he embodies in voice. Ralph has narrated more than one hundred audiobooks and directed over a dozen others, across all genres, both fiction and nonfiction. Now a U.S. citizen, Ralph shares his time between his homes in Michigan and Los Angeles, where he also continues his passion for on-camera acting. Recent film credits include roles in OZ: The Great and Powerful, Setup, Alleged, and Mickey Matson and the Pirate's Code, and his television credits include a role on the AMC crime drama Low Winter Sun.

About Eileen Stevens

Eileen Stevens is a voice-over actress whose voice can be heard on cartoons, promos, programs for English-language learners, and audiobooks. An Earphones Award–winning narrator, she is also an audiobook director and producer.

About Richard Powers

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His book, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

About Ann Richardson

Ann Richardson was raised in the Midwest, where she was active in drama and singing. Her varied work experience has lent itself well to narration, as she's no stranger to the terminology used in wildlife management, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, education, and the automotive industry. A devoted volunteer for Learning Ally (formerly Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic), she has narrated numerous audiobooks in a wide variety of genres.

About Robertson Dean

Robertson Dean has recorded hundreds of audiobooks in most every genre. He's been nominated for several Audie Awards, won eight Earphones Awards, and was named one of AudioFile magazine's Best Voices of 2010. He lives in Los Angeles, where he records books and acts in film, TV, and (especially) on stage.

About Kevin Kenerly

Kevin Kenerly, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, earned a BA at Olivet College. A longtime member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he has acted in more than twenty seasons, playing dozens of roles.

About Emily Pike Stewart

Emily Pike Stewart is a formally trained actor and SAG-AFTRA narrator who records books in multiple genres. She currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky.

About Bob Souer

Bob Souer has lent his talents to network television, the internet, and everywhere else a human voice is used. He enjoys narrating nonfiction audiobooks and often takes on eLearning projects for clients around the world.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shawn on April 21, 2023

I’d recommend this book if someone wants help identifying and clarifying relevant ethical topics, but I wouldn’t consider these authors’s arguments (or, at times, lack thereof) as particularly helpful or insightful. The “author response” sections were lackluster and came across the same way that som......more

Goodreads review by Allan on April 13, 2024

"Discerning Ethics: Diverse Christian Responses to Divisive Moral Issues" is an exploration of moral philosophy within a Christian framework, making it an important read for anyone interested in the intersection of faith and ethical challenges. The book brings together contributions from a variety o......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on April 30, 2021

An excellent attempt to cover a swath of ethical issues from multiple Christian perspectives. Some chapters were significantly weaker than others in the views selected for comparison, and almost every chapter author selected either the "third-way" option presented or presented an eclectic approach.......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay on December 29, 2023

I read this for a class. This book does its best to survey prevailing ethical issues from various perspectives and it’s not the book’s fault that even a 2020 book feels outdated in 2023.. times change fast.......more


Quotes

“It is clear that the editors have attained their goal to help readers become exposed to the range of different ethical perspectives and the rationales behind each position.” Booklist

“An excellent introduction to the most urgent contemporary ethical issues. Discerning Ethics demonstrates methodological sophistication, honest discussion of divergent views, and a solid biblical commitment. Highly recommended!” Ronald J. Sider, professor emeritus, Palmer Seminary at Eastern University

“If American Protestants have been polarized between progressive-liberals on the ‘left’ and conservative evangelicals on the ‘right,’ Lee and Dearborn and their colleagues have broken through this either-or, not merely in pointing out that the middle is a much more expansive spectrum than just another stance, but in showing that both commitments to biblical and theological orthodoxy and attentiveness to the contemporary world and its complex realities require the virtuous practice of spiritual discernment, one that is faithful to the gospel rather than beholden to any ideology or tradition.” Amos Yong, dean of the School of Theology and the School of Intercultural Studies, Fuller Seminary

“This volume of essays is exactly what we need in the classroom today, both in seminaries and college theology courses.” Ki Joo Choi, chair of the Department of Religion and associate professor of theological ethics, Seton Hall University