New Second Edition Coming Soon!
What must I do? What must I be? What is the relationship between what I am and what I do? What things must I do or not do because of my being a Christian?
What Must I Do…? Bridging the Gap Between Being and Doing parts company with the traditional approach to doing ethics in which issues are presented then reason and scripture are marshalled in support of a predetermined solution. Instead, in this publication themes are of paramount concern. Issues are secondary.
The NEW second edition of What Must I Do…? Bridging the Gap Between Being and Doing has been updated and expanded toward the goal of helping Christians to learn how to discern the will of God so that they might narrow the gap between being a Christian and doing what a Christian ought to do.
Don E. Peavy, Sr.’s What Must I Do…? Bridging the Gap Between Being and Doing:
- Offers a systematic approach to ethical discernment that frees one from reliance upon feelings, hunches, inspiration, and other fleeting sensations.
- Transcends the boundaries of Christian communities while enabling them to move closer to a place where Christians in diverse communities can come to the same moral decision. The will of God is the same for all people.
- Is designed for today’s students! The publication addresses hot topics such as gender and racial studies, suicide, and homosexuality.
Introduction
1 To Kill or Not to Kill “A Tolerable Justice?”
2 Exploring Ways in Which Experience Shapes Ethics
3 Looking at Woman Within the “Full Context” of the Judeo-Christian Experience: A Reflection
4 “Why Don’t You Check Out Your Soul?” The Need for Psychic Conversion Among American Blacks
5 On Which Side of the Road Are We Walking? Considering Homosexuality as an Issue of Stewardship
6 Martyrs or Suicides? A Look at Martyrdom in the Hebrew Scriptures and the Apocrypha
7 Creative Paradox: The Ethics of Pluralism