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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

Faith, Formation, and Decision

James M. Childs · 1992
71/100
👍 Worth It

Childs built something genuinely durable here — a dialogical ethics framework that holds together across thirty-plus years because it roots moral reasoning in community and promise rather than abstract rules. The 1992 applied cases are dated, but the theological architecture is not. Seminary students and serious adult readers in Lutheran or ecumenical contexts will find it worth the effort.

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