You Have Been Told What Is Good - Paperback

by Paul O. Ingram (Author)

The radical interdependency of justice, compassion, and solidarity of community working for the common good are ideals celebrated in the religious Ways of humanity. Human beings at all times and in all places have known what is good, but for reasons too numerous to count have failed to act justly and compassionately in communal harmony with one other and with the sentient beings with whom we share life on planet Earth. Today the major justice issue confronting us is human-caused environmental destruction running amok on this planet, the only place in the universe where our species is alive. Accordingly, this book offers socially engaged dialogue between persons representing the world's religious Ways. (The natural sciences are included as a third partner.) The dialogue presented in this book is a powerful resource for confronting and stopping the causes of climate change. But we must do so before it's too late.

Author Biography

Paul O. Ingram is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Pacific Lutheran University, where he taught for thirty-five years. Among his many publications are Wrestling with the Ox (Wipf & Stock, 2006), Wrestling with God (Cascade Books, 2006) Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an Age of Science (2008), Theological Reflections at the Boundaries (Cascade Books, 2011), The Process of Buddhist-Christian Dialogue (Cascade Books, 2009), Passing Over and Returning (Cascade Books, 2013), and Living without a Why (Cascade Books, 2014).