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This book charts a course through the equally inadequate options of despair and optimism to a responsible understanding and practice of Christian hope. Ellen Ott Marshall names honestly the many sources of human pain. Yet she weaves an eloquent Christian response from contemporary and traditional theologies and her own experience, lifting up hopeful practices of compassion, resistance, and conversion that support the common good. -Lisa Cahill, J. Donald Monan Professor, Boston College ""This study of hope glows with wisdom and compassion.

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Ellen Ott Marshall is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Conflict Transformation at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. If you have been looking for an innovative text to teach introductory Christian ethics, then Ellen Ott Marshall’s new book is it. How do we live the good life in the midst of ongoing conflict? Marshalluses conflict as an interpretive lens to explicate and rethink theological concepts, such as imago Dei, sin, and reconciliation and ethical theories, such as teleology, deontology and responsibility.

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Ellen Ott Marshall is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Conflict Transformation at Candler School of. .

Ellen Ott Marshall is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Conflict Transformation at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA. Her books include Choosing Peace through Daily Practices, Though the Fig Tree Does Not Blossom: Toward a Responsible Theology of Christian Hope, and Christians in the Public Square. The stories in this book are, gritty, and true to the complexities of real-life conflict. This should be required reading for anyone engaging the suffering within our world or anyone who yearns for a redemptive way forward.

Marshall’s work focuses on contemporary Christian ethics, with particular attention to.

Marshall’s work focuses on contemporary Christian ethics, with particular attention to violence, peacebuilding, and conflict transformation. She is also interested in questions about gender and moral agency, and the dynamic relationship between faith, history and ethics. Though the Fig Tree Does Not Blossom: Toward a Responsible Theology of Christian Hope. Abingdon Press, 2006. Ellen Ott Marshall's new Introduction to Christian Ethics is grounded in the novel and timely claim that ’to study Christian ethics is to study conflict. Deploying a methodology which is contextual, feminist, and Wesleyan, she masterfully explores major theological affirmations and methodological claims of Christian ethics through examples and case studies, all of which return again and again to conflict.

Not Blossom : Toward a Responsible Theology of Christian Hope. This book charts a course through the equally inadequate options of despair and optimism to a responsible understanding and practice of Christian hope.

Though the Fig Tree Does Not Blossom : Toward a Responsible Theology of Christian Hope. by Ellen Ott Marshall. Select Format: Paperback. ISBN13:9781498235839. Release Date:September 2015.

Though the Fig Tree Does Not Blossom: Toward a Responsible Theology of Christian Hope.

We must do so because our faith is a deeply held part of who we are and therefore cannot be excised", states Marshall (p. xiii). Our faith informs our conscience and shapes our commitments to various social issues.