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JUSTICE
from the Global Dictionary of Theology: "Justice is a central theme in Scripture; justice for the poor and oppressed a recurring motif. This concern for justice continues into the patristic era, and contemporary theology has continued to explore the meaning of justice and the church's role in promoting justice."

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Church of Social Justice
from Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice
"The Catholic Church and Social Justice is conceptualized as the right and obligation of individuals to be involved in determining the way in which larger social, economic, and political institutions of society are organized (U.S. Catholic Bishops, 1986)."

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Recommended Books in the SAU Library collection

Sacraments and Justice by Doris Donnelly
Call Number: Library Second Floor Stacks BX2203 .S24 2014
ISBN: 9780814680728
Publication Date: 2014
Description: Baptism and justice / Confirmation and justice / Eucharist and justice / Penance and justice / Marriage and justice / Orders and justice / Anointing of the sick and justice /
Biblical Economic Ethics by Albino Barrera
Call Number: Library Second Floor Stacks BS670 .B37 2013
ISBN: 9780739182291
Publication Date: 2013
Description: Methodological issues : using sacred scripture in economic ethics -- Old Testament. Socioeconomic conditions : Biblical Israel -- Covenant and law -- Prophets -- Wisdom literature -- New Testament. Socioeconomic conditions : first-century Palestine -- Mark -- Matthew -- Luke-Acts -- Pauline letters and James -- Toward a Biblical theology of economic life. A divine order of conditional prosperity -- Gift of divine friendship : imitatio dei -- Gift of one another : mutual solicitude and care for the poor -- Gift of the earth : stewardship -- Summary and conclusions : economic life as participation in God's providence.
The Unchained Bible: cultural appropriations of biblical texts by Hugh S. Pyper; Andrew Mein (Series edited by); Claudia V. Camp (Series edited by)
Call Number: Library Second Floor Stacks BS538.3 .P974 2012
ISBN: 9780567166906
Publication Date: 2012
Description: Introduction -- The offensiveness of scripture -- Making sense of the Bible. The beginnings of the Bible -- Biblical nonsense -- The resistant Bible. Religion against the Bible -- The Bible in the metropolis -- The Bible as guidebook. Biblical tourism : Eça de Queiros and Mark Twain in Palestine -- The book of Dave versus the Bible -- The Bible, music and nationalism. When Jesus was (nearly) a Scot -- Jonah in Estonia, Joseph in Latvia -- Brucknerian transpositions --Animal Bible. The lion king -- Conversations with donkeys -- The sporting Bible. Wrestling the Bible -- The NASCAR Bible -- The survival of the Bible. Dispelling delusions : Dawkins, Dennett and biblical studies.
The Future of Peace and Justice in the Global Village by Thomas R. McFaul
Call Number: BL65.P4 M34 2006 SAU Library Second Floor
ISBN: 9780275993139
Publication Date: 2006
--Includes bibliographical references and index.--"It addresses the role the world's major religions will play in bringing either greater peace and justice or hatred and hostility into the global village."
Israel's Poetry of Resistance by Hugh R. Page
Call Number: Library Second Floor Stacks BS1405.55 .P34 2013
ISBN: 9780800663346
Publication Date: 2013
"...offers fresh translations and brief commentary on the Bible's fifteen earliest poems, and explores the power and relevance of these poems, and the ancient mythic themes behind them, for contemporary life at the margins"--Publisher's description. "
Holy Bible Catholic Edition by Nelson Bibles Staff
Call Number: Library Second Floor Stacks BS191.5.A11993 .N2
ISBN: 0840785526
Publication Date: 1993
Publisher: Nashville : Catholic Bible Press
Bible defence of slavery : or, The origin, history, and fortunes of the Negro race, as deduced from history, both sacred and profane, their natural relations, moral, mental and physical, to the other races of mankind, compared and illustrated, their futur by Josiah Priest 1788-1851.
Call Number: Library Third Floor Stacks E499 .P941 1853
Publication Date: 1853
This book provides a historical perspective that has been overturned.
Women in World Religions [2 Volumes] by Susan de Gaia (Editor)
Call Number: Library First Floor Reference REF BL458 .W5835 2019
ISBN: 9781440848490
Publication Date: 2019
"Written for undergraduates, this reference provides comprehensive coverage of the history, issues, and roles of women in religions around the world and across time"

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Theology/Philosophy Research Librarian

The Librarian is available for individual help as well, as needed.

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

~Micah 6:8~

Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials

ATLA Religion Database with AtlaSerials
Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals.

American Theological Library Association (ATLA)

ProQuest Central suite of databases

ProQuest Central
Multidisciplinary database with specialty journals on business, biology, science & technology, health and medical information, social sciences, arts and humanities, as well as newspaper sources.
ProQuest: Health & Medicine
Covers the subjects of Medical Science, Nursing, Allied Health, Public Health, and Pharmacology.
Philosopher's Index
Bibliographic database designed to help researchers easily find publications of interest in the field of philosophy.
PsycARTICLES
"With current journal coverage and historical content dating back more than a century, this esteemed collection provides access to the full spectrum of research in the field and is an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners, students, and educators."
PsycINFO
With nearly 4 million records and upwards of 4,000 indexed records added each week, this ever-expanding collection of behavioral and social science research, dissertations, and scholarly literature abstracts offers a broad view of the field.

other databases to try

ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
Indexing of periodicals, essay collections, church documents, papal documents and electronic resources expressly addressing the practice and intellectual tradition of Roman Catholicism.

Atla Catholic is now contained in the main Atla Religion Database

American Theological Library Association (Atla)

Content within its scope is selected for indexing based on enduring scholarly merit. Atla CPLI contains indexing from 1981 to the present and is updated quarterly. Indexing for ATLA CPLI contains index records produced by the Catholic Library Association (CLA) from 1980 through the November 2011 update of the database. Records produced by The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) will begin appearing with the February 2012 update. Atla acquired Atla CPLI in September 2011 and holds the copyright for Atla CPLI.

Two examples of a search string in ATLA might be:
DE "Slavery -- Biblical teaching" AND "United States"

Political rhetoric AND Bibl*

ProQuest Research: Religion
Covers a wide spectrum of religious beliefs systems, including titles from religious publishing bodies as well as nondenominational organizations.
JSTOR
Full-text academic journals in the fields of economics, history, political science, sociology, Latin American and Middle Eastern studies, etc.

Slavery in America: A free database.
"This collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Within this library is a section containing all modern law review articles on the subject. This library will continue to grow, not only from new scholarship but also from historical material that we continue to locate and add to the collection."

An example of an article:

Appeals court upholds death sentence; A juror's reciting Bible verses did not taint the verdict for Stevie Lamar Fields, a panel rules
"White's notes to fellow jurors contained 13 biblical passages favoring the death penalty and just one opposing it, while failing to mention others "that might have been marshaled against the death penalty."

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Selected Scholarly Web Sites

Catholic Social Teaching
"Catholic social teaching is based on and inseparable from our understanding of human life and human dignity."--from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
from the Vatican.
The Bible Project: Justice
The Catholic Worker Movement
"Today 227 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and forsaken. Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence of all forms.
Explore the life and writings of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin as well as sample contemporary Catholic Worker thought and action."
Prayers for Peace and Justice from the World's Religious Traditions
from the Harvard Divinity School
The Campaigns Series: Speeches from the Conventions (6 Parts) 1988-2012
How some issues are seen through the eyes of U.S. politicians, some of whom quote the Bible. SAU Users on campus only.
Father Coughlin & The Search For "Social Justice"
Speeches: A Primary Source. He uses Bible verses in the speech.

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He discusses distributive justice and wages. "Father Coughlin first took to the airwaves in 1926, broadcasting weekly sermons over the radio. By the early 1930s the content of his broadcasts had shifted from theology to economics and politics. Just as the rest of the nation was obsessed by matters economic and political in the aftermath of the Depression, so too was Father Coughlin.
He began as an early Roosevelt supporter, coining a famous expression, that the nation's choice was between "Roosevelt or ruin." Later in the 1930s he turned against FDR and became one of the president's harshest critics. His program of "social justice" was a very radical challenge to unbridled capitalism and to many of the political institutions of his day. In the three broadcasts reproduced here he outlines his program and responds to his critics."
Vatican Library
"DigiVatLib is a digital library service. It provides free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials (special projects)."

Books for "Bible AND Politics"

The Use of scripture in moral theology: Readings in Moral Theology by Charles E. Curran; Richard A. McCormick
Call Number: Library Second Floor Stacks BX1758.2 .U83 1984
ISBN: 0809125633
Publication Date: 1984
The Bible and American Law, Politics, and Political Rhetoric by James T. Johnson (Editor)
Call Number: Interlibrary Loan from our Partner Libraries. SAU Users.
ISBN: 9780800606145
Publication Date: 1985
Subjects: Religion and politics -- United States; United States -- Politics and government; Bible -- Influence

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SAU Archive and Special Collections

Information on accessing our SAU Archival Materials

The St. Ambrose University Archives holds many materials on the role that Peace and Social Justice has played in our SAU history.

Words by Pope Francis

"It makes me very happy to see you working together towards social justice! How I wish that such constructive energy would spread to all dioceses, because it builds bridges between peoples and individuals. These are bridges that can overcome the walls of exclusion, indifference, racism and intolerance."

~Pope Francis~

THEO 337 WI: Bible and Social Justice: Home