Jack A. Hill, Ethics in the Global Village

Ethics in the Global Village
Moral Insights for the Post 9-11 USA

How does one speak about the really big questions of our time—waging war, making ends meet, and preserving the planet? What does it mean to think ethically in a world marked by fear of terror, economic anxiety and ecological meltdown? Can revisiting the moral wisdom of the historical Jesus or learning about the moral perspectives of our global neighbors help us address our fears? In Ethics in the Global Village , Jack Hill connects the dots between what Jesus said long ago and what we experience today in a radically new way by linking the voice of Jesus to unheard voices of contemporary, largely marginalized, social and political movements. He draws on his firsthand experiences living overseas to introduce readers to the moral thinking of Pacific islanders, Jamaican Rastafarians and a new generation of South Africans. If Americans are to live the good life in the global village, he argues, we need to be in creative dialogue with neighbors overseas, and that dialogue will enable us to experience our own American moral heritage, as well as the Jesus tradition, in fresh ways.

“We not only need Hill’s volume and its ethic of re-connection. We need many more like it! . . . This is a ranging, intriguing, important work.” —Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary

“An exceptionally engaging text . . . with both its scholarly approach and yet extremely readable style . . . would certainly be of interest to laypersons and scholars alike. . . .” —Donna Yarri, Associate Professor Theology, Alvernia College