Dust that Breathes

William Schweiker is the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago and he is the Director of the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion. His many books include Responsibility and Christian Ethics (1995), Power, Value and Conviction: Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age (1998), Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics: In the Time of Many Worlds (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), and Religion and the Human Future (with David Klemm, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008). Schweiker has published numerous articles and award-winning essays, and has edited and contributed to six volumes, including Humanity Before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Ethics (2006), and The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004, 2008).

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• Preface. Introduction.Part I: Topics.1. The Specter of Religious Identity.2. Humanizing Religion.3. Conscience and Spiritual Conviction.4. Metaphors of the Soul.5. Voices of Neohumanism.6. The Christ of Christian Humanism.Part II: Thinkers.7. Human Only Human?8. Goodness and Fictive Persons.9. Reverence for Life -- The Spirit of Life.10. Sovereign Expressions of Life.11. Ecstatic Humanism.12. On Christian and Theological Humanism.Index.