Kant and the mythic roots of morality / John R. Silber -- Reason, tradition, community / Charles Davis --"But we do see Jesus" / John Howard Yoder -- Pilgrimage to communitarian personalism / Walter G. Muelder -- Utilitarianism and the goodness of persons / Lynda Sharp Paine -- Rights, privacy, and tainted ideals / Edward W. James -- Confession and moral choice / Sissela Bok -- Supererogation / Daniel R. DeNicola -- The ethics of the auspicious / John B. Carman -- Ethics and mysticism / Steven T. Katz -- Tragic choices / Roger S. Gottlieb -- Reflections on the ambiguity of science / Robert S. Cohen V4 edited by Leroy S. Rouner Foundations of ethics

Knowing religiously / Eliot Deutsch -- The historicist turn in philosophy of religion / Cornel West -- Our knowledge of God / Charles Hartshorne -- The varieties of religious knowing / J.N. Findlay -- On knowing what is uncertain / Ninian Smart -- God and coherence: on the epistemological foundations of religious belief / Kai Nielsen -- The burden of proof / Antony Flew -- The body of knowledge: "religious" notions in the convergence of psychoanalysis and feminism / Naomi R. Goldenberg -- Reconceiving God for a nuclear age / Gordon D. Kaufman -- Meaning, religion, and the question of God / Wolfhart Pannenberg -- Religion and science in an advanced scientific culture / Langdon Gilkey -- The meeting of east and west: Paul Tillich's philosophy of religion / Leroy S. Rouner -- Messianic atheism / Jürgen Moltmann. V7 edited by Leroy S. Rouner. Knowing religiously

Introduction / Leroy S. Rouner -- Incarnation and determinate freedom / Nicholas Lash -- Is Protestantism the "religion of freedom"? / Jürgen Moltmann -- Freedom, the self, and the other / David W. Tracy -- Freedom, tolerance, and Puritan commitment / Robert C. Neville -- Freedom as self-determination / John E. Smith -- Freedom and the state / Frithjof Bergmann -- Science, theology, and freedom : a new look at the Galileo case / James R. Langford -- Freedom as action in Indian philosophy / J.N. Mohanty -- Social structures and structural ethics / Louis Dupré -- Evading the shadows : freedom and the social world / Ruth L. Smith -- Mass death and autonomous selves / Edith Wyschogrod V10 edited by Leroy S. Rouner On freedom

Happiness, tranquillity, and philosophy /Charles L. Griswold, Jr. --Happiness in motion : desire and delight /Margaret R. Miles --Blessedness /Huston Smith --Inwardness of joy in Jewish spirituality /Michael Fishbane --Buddha's smile : enlightenment and the pursuit of happiness /Robert A. F. Thurman --Happiness in the Confucian way /Tu Wei-ming --Ecstasy and truth /Leroy S. Rouner --Happiness and the uneasy conscience /Ruth L. Smith --Happiness as the pursuit of meaning : the promise of professionalism / William M. Sullivan --Will the Cubs and Red Sox ever meet again? Playfulness and happiness /James R. Langford V16 edited by Leroy S. Rouner In pursuit of happiness /

Teaching Peace in a Christian context / John J. Gilligan -- Credibility of ecclesiastical teaching on the morality of war / John Yoder -- Early advocates of lasting world peace, utopians or realists? / Sissela Bok -- From Leviathan to Lilliput / Stephen Toulmin -- Conceptions of peace, political challenge and theological controversy in German protestantism / Trutz Rendtroff -- Political theology and the ethics of peace / Jürgen Moltmann -- Peace of God, conceptions of peace in the New Testament / Paul S. Minear -- Rope of violence and the snake of peace, conflict and harmony in classical India / Gerald J. Larson -- Buddhism, Sri Lanka, and the prospects for peace / Ninian Smart -- Gandhi's Quest for a nonviolent political philosophy / Bhikhu Parekh -- Christian peacemakers in the warmaking state / Daniel Berrigan -- Poetic vision and the hope for peace / Denise Levertov. V11 edited by Leroy S. Rouner Celebrating peace

Is civility a virtue? / James Schmidt -- Civic meetings, cultural meanings / Lawrence Cahoone -- Trust, confidence, and the problem of civility / Adam B. Seligman -- Beyond courtesy / Adam McClellan -- The belligerence of dogma / Stephen Toulmin -- The ethical status of civility / Robert B. Pippin -- Response to Robert B. Pippin / Daniel O. Dahlstrom -- Are we losing our virtue? / Alan Wolfe -- Response to Alan Wolfe / Lawrence Cahoone -- Civility and the limits to the tolerable / Edwin J. Delattre -- Civility in the family / Carrie Doehring -- On Confucian civility / Henry Rosemont Jr. -- Harmony, fragmentation, and democratic ritual / David B. Wong -- Sacred civilities / Ninian Smart -- Making peace / Virginia Straus V21 edited by Leroy S. Rouner Civility

Longing for home / Elie Wiesel -- Of dwelling and wayfaring: a quest for metaphors / Erazim Kohák -- The only Henniker on Earth / Werner Gundersheimer -- The longing for home / Frederick Buechner -- Home is where we've never been: experience and transcendence / Leroy S. Rouner -- Are we at home in the world? / Rémi Brague -- Places of experience and the experience of place / Katherine Platt -- The man who committed adultery with his own wife / Wendy Doniger -- Home and Zakhor, remember! / Alfred I. Tauber -- Shekinah: the home of the homeless God / Jürgen Moltmann -- Dwellers, migrants, nomads: home in the age of the refugee / Edith Wyschogrod -- Hospitality: home as the integration of privacy and community / Rosemary L. Haughton -- Ecofeminism and the longing for home / Karen J. Warren -- The Indian diaspora and its conception of home / Bhikhu Parekh -- The terror of land loss, the dream of finding home / Martin E. Marty. V.17 edited by Leroy S. Rouner The Longing For Home

The authors of The Longing for Home explore the notion that home is both a place and a condition of the spirit. While a person may have a place that is home, he or she may also be nostalgic for an inner spiritual home, which beckons even as it lies beyond the human grasp.(V17)