Hak Joon Lee Knihy

"In this capacious and accessible introduction to Christian ethics, Hak Joon Lee advances a renewed vision of Christian life that is liberative, grace-centered, and justice- and peace-oriented in nature. Responding to key ethical questions of today, Lee applies the moral meaning and implications of the New Covenant in Jesus Christ to twenty-first-century life, characterized by fluidity, fragmentation, division, and violence. Christian Ethics begins by introducing covenant as the central drama and storyline of Scripture that culminates in the New Covenant of Jesus. It presents shalom (the wholeness and flourishing of creation) as God's ultimate purpose and God's covenant as "God's organizing mechanism of community" that mediates God's work of liberation and restoration. Lee proposes a creative model of Christian ethics based on the New Covenant of Jesus and its organizing patterns, reconstructing the key categories of ethics (agency, norms, authority of Scripture, ethical discernment, etc.) and drawing out four practices--communicative engagement, just peacemaking, grassroots organizing, and nonviolence. The result is a new model of Christian ethics that is inclusive, egalitarian, ecological, and justice- and peace-oriented, which overcomes the limitations of traditional covenantal ethics. In the second part of the book, Lee systematically applies New Covenant ethics to the most urgent and controversial social issues of our time: democratic politics, economic ethics, creation care, criminal justice, race, sex and marriage, medicine, and war and peace. Through his deep, pastoral, and irenic inquiries into these difficult topics, Lee demonstrates a pattern of covenantal moral reasoning that undercuts the dominant neoliberal ethos of individualism and transactional relationship that more and more influences Christian moral decisions. His conclusion is that as covenant has been at the heart of modern democracy, human rights, civil society, and civic formation, a renewed understanding of covenant centered in Jesus can help to heal our broken society and imperiled planet, and to reorganize the fragmented human life in the era of globalization and digitization." -- Provided by publisher

Exploring the intersection of communicative ethics and Christian doctrine, the book presents a covenantal-communicative model of ethics. Hak Joon Lee engages with Jürgen Habermas's ideas, examining themes such as freedom, equality, and reciprocity through the lens of Reformed Christian beliefs, particularly focusing on the concepts of covenant and the Trinity. This analysis aims to enrich ethical discussions by integrating philosophical and theological perspectives.

Focusing on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s spirituality, the book delves into its African roots and its connection to the struggle for racial justice. It highlights the concept of communal-political spirituality as central to King's beliefs and actions. The author reexamines King's personal journey, theology, and the Civil Rights Movement through this lens, emphasizing its relevance today, especially in the context of the war on terror and the need for interreligious dialogue.

In an imaginary world where Korea is one of the world's leading nations in martial arts, its government encourages high schools to set up martial art classes to develop talented martial artists. As the government provides with numerous benefits to the students of these classes, almost all teenagers dream of being selected for the special classes. Among the martial arts classes all over the country, Nam-il High School's Fight Class 3 is the most famous.A short, weak freshman named Ji-tae, whose physical appearance is the very opposite of a typical athlete, looks to join Nam-il’s Fight Class 3. Maria, a genius martial artist and international student of Class 3 from Brazil, happens to notice the unique talents that Ji-tae possesses―a double jointed body and the ability to read the movement patterns of his counterpart while fighting―that are ideal for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. And convinces the head martial arts teacher to test Ji-tae, and he passes. Julia also knows about Ji-tae's missing father, who used to be a famous martial artist. Through numerous fights with Maria and his other classmates, all who have mastered different martial arts themselves, Ji-tae gradually becomes a martial artist specializing in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. All the while, he continues searching for his missing father with Maria...Don't mis this exciting new martial arts school manhwa series! For fans of The Breaker.

Jitae's training doesn't appear to be as fruitful as his teammates and coaches would like, but once he gets in the ring, it is clear to other fighters that there is something special about him. His struggles don't end there, as he becomes more intimidated by his new classmates, who all seem bigger, stronger, and more together than himself. But that may not actually be the case, which Jitae learns as part of Maria's past becomes more clear. A bit of jealousy from another student about Jitae and Maria's relationship puts the young man in danger...but he's not the only one. Jitae's friends and former classmates, Ok-Dong and Jieun, find themselves in a bit of trouble with the school bullies that continues to escalate, no matter how hard they try to fix it. Will this put Jitae and the bullies on a collision course that will make the new fighter finally have to learn how to use his abilities? FIGHT CLASS 3 is a thrilling martial arts school manhwa series...for fans of The Breaker!