Value and Vulnerability

<p><i>Value and Vulnerability</i> brings together scholars of many religions--including Catholicism Buddhism Judaism Hinduism Eastern Orthodoxy Protestantism Islam and Humanism--to identify and examine conceptions and interpretations of dignity within different religious and philosophical perspectives and their applications to contemporary issues of conflict such as gendered religious and racial violence immigration ecology and religious peacemaking. <i>Value and Vulnerability </i>also includes response chapters that clarify and refine these interpretations from interfaith perspectives. Through this volume Matthew R. Petrusek and Jonathan Rothchild offer recommendations for advancing the conversation about dignity within and among traditions and for addressing urgent global issues and threats to dignity. Together Petrusek Rothchild and the contributors create a comparative framework constituted by seven questions: What sources justify dignity's existence nature and purpose? What is the relationship between the divine and human dignity? What is the relationship between dignity and the human body? Is dignity vulnerable or invulnerable to moral harm? Is dignity inherent or attained? Is dignity universal and equal? Is dignity practical? Through its systematic comparative interdisciplinary and practical dimensions <i>Value and Vulnerability</i> fills in the gaps in contemporary theological philosophical and ethical discourses on dignity.</p><p>Contributors: Matthew R. Petrusek Jonathan Rothchild Darlene Fozard Weaver Kristin Scheible Karen B. Enriquez Elliot N. Dorff Daniel Nevins Christopher Key Chapple David P. Gushee Aristotle Papanikolaou Zeki Saritoprak William Schweiker Hille Haker Nicholas Denysenko Terrence L. Johnson William O'Neill Victor Carmona Dawn Nothwehr OSF and Ellen Ott Marshall. </p><p></p>