by Eric R. Severson (Author)

Responsibility is routinely overlooked, manipulated, and oversimplified. In Scandalous Obligation, Eric Severson explores the scope of Christian responsibility. This book delves into the slippery nature of obligation, the dilemma of competing calls for justice, and the perilous temptation to dismiss or avoid responsibility. Using examples from popular culture Severson casts an expansive and often daunting vision of responsibility that challenges the status quo.This book presses readers to consider the many complications that arise when Christians begin to understand the extent of their responsibility for the suffering that abounds in the world. It explores how Christians are to turn this approach to responsibility toward the clouds of injustice and pain that hang over our world today.

Author Biography

ERIC R. SEVERSON is currently associate professor of philosophy at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts. He is also codirector of the Center for Responsibility and Justice and has served as pastor at Grandview Church of the Nazarene in Missouri. He received his PhD from Boston University and has edited such collections as The Least of These: Selected Readings in Christian History and I More than Others: Responses to Evil and Suffering.