Christianity Ethics And The Law

Author : Gilbert Meilaender
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781430087496

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Christian Ethics by Gilbert Meilaender Pdf

Jesus’s final command to his disciples at the Last Supper is a calling to an ethic of love. In Christian Ethics: A Short Companion, renowned ethicist Gilbert Meilaender makes the case that all Christian ethics are an outworking of this command to love one another. Meilaender accordingly lays out a vision for the spirit and structure of the Christian life, while drawing directly upon theologians from the early church to the Reformation to today. He begins by examining the concept of sin and its profound impact on human life before moving to grace as an agent of pardon and power. He then lays out a framework for a Christian life characterized by a spirit of love, bound by wise limits and fostered through the community of the church. Within this volume, Meilaender also includes excerpts from and commentary on: Martin Luther, The Freedom of a Christian (1520) ​Josef Pieper, About Love (1974) H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ and Culture (1951) Christian Ethics: A Short Companion is a concise and illuminating exploration of the foundational aspects of Christian ethics. Readers will be empowered to live out their faith with wisdom, grace, and moral clarity—but most of all, with love. The Essentials in Christian Ethics series is designed to illuminate the richness and centrality of ethics to all of Christian life. The series consists of short, introductory volumes written by renowned scholars in the fields of ethics, theology, and philosophy. Each volume explores a crucial element of Christian ethical reflection, approaching the subject from within the broader Protestant moral tradition.

Author : Zachary R. Calo,Joshua Neoh,A. Keith Thompson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000813210

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Christianity, Ethics and the Law by Zachary R. Calo,Joshua Neoh,A. Keith Thompson Pdf

This book examines how Christian love can inform legal thought. The work introduces love as a way to advance the emergent conversation between constructive theology and jurisprudence that will also inform conversations in philosophy and political theory. Love is the central category for Christian ethical understanding. Yet, the growing field of law and religion, and relatedly law and theology, rarely addresses how love can shape our understanding of law. This reflects, in part, a common assumption that law and love stand in necessary tension. Love applies to the private and the personal. Law, by contrast, applies to the public and the political, realms governed by power. It is thus a mistake to envisage love as having anything but a negative relationship to law. This conclusion continues to govern Christian understandings of the meaning and vocation of law. The animating idea of this volume is that the concept of love can and should inform Christian legal thought. The project approaches this task from the perspective of both historical and constructive theology. Various contributions examine how such thinkers as Augustine, Aquinas, and Calvin utilised love in their legal thought. These essays highlight often neglected aspects of the Christian tradition. Other contributions examine Christian love in light of contemporary legal topics including civility, forgiveness, and secularism. Love, the book proposes, not only matters for law but can transform the terms on which Christians understand and engage it. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of legal theory; law and religion; law and philosophy; legal history; theology and religious studies; and political theory.

Author : Andrew Skotnicki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317026389

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The Last Judgment by Andrew Skotnicki Pdf

In a culture obsessed with law, judgment, and violence, this book challenges Christians to remember that Jesus urged his followers to judge no one, bring harm upon no one, and follow no law save the law of altruistic love. It traces Christian history first to show that Christians of an earlier age took very seriously the gospel injunctions against punitive legal judgment and then how the advent of formal legal codes and philosophical dualism undermined that perspective to create a division between a private Christian spirituality and a public morality of order and legally sanctioned violence. This historical approach is accompanied by an argument that the recovery of a Christian ethic based upon unconditional love and forgiveness cannot be accomplished without the renewal of a Christian spirituality that mirrors the contemplative spirituality of Jesus.

Author : Jean Porter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802846971

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Natural and Divine Law by Jean Porter Pdf

Though the concept of natural law took center stage during the Middle Ages, the theological aspects of this august intellectual tradition have been largely forgotten by the modern church. In this book ethicist Jean Porter shows the continuing significance of the natural law tradition for Christian ethics. Based on a careful analysis of natural law as it emerged in the medieval period, Porter's work explores several important scholastic theologians and canonists whose writings are not only worthy of study in their own right but also make important contributions to moral reflection today.

Author : Walter George Muelder
Publisher : New York : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X001334630

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Moral Law in Christian Social Ethics by Walter George Muelder Pdf

This work deals with laws of autonomy, values, persons, community, and the metaphysical or divine context of moral choice. The main question is whether a system of moral laws obediently adhered to would bring coherence into ethical reflection.

Author : Michael W. McConnell,Robert Cochran,Angela C. Carmella
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300130065

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Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought by Michael W. McConnell,Robert Cochran,Angela C. Carmella Pdf

This book explores for the first time the broad range of ways in which Christian thought intersects with American legal theory. Eminent legal scholars—including Stephen Carter, Thomas Shaffer, Elizabeth Mensch, Gerard Bradley, and Marci Hamilton—describe how various Christian traditions, including the Catholic, Calvinist, Anabaptist, and Lutheran traditions, understand law and justice, society and the state, and human nature and human striving. The book reveals not only the diversity among Christian legal thinkers but also the richness of the Christian tradition as a source for intellectual and ethical approaches to legal inquiry. The contributors bring various perspectives to the subject. Some engage the prominent schools of legal thought: liberalism, legal realism, critical legal studies, feminism, critical race theory, and law and economics. Others address substantive areas, including environmental, criminal, contract, torts, and family law, as well as professional responsibility. Together the essays introduce a new school of legal thought that will make a signal contribution to contemporary discussions of law.

Author : Jeffrey B. Hammond,Helen M. Alvare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108835381

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Christianity and the Laws of Conscience by Jeffrey B. Hammond,Helen M. Alvare Pdf

This book explores the Christian theological, legal, constitutional, historical, and philosophical meanings of conscience for both scholarly and educated general audiences.

Author : William Lillie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : IOWA:31858024919775

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The Law of Christ by William Lillie Pdf

Author : Jonathan Sacks
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805243017

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The Great Partnership by Jonathan Sacks Pdf

A renowned author and rabbi discusses the relationship between science and religion and the importance of the coexistence of both in that religion is the search for meaning and science is the search for explanation. 20,000 first printing.

Author : Norman Doe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107186446

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Christianity and Natural Law by Norman Doe Pdf

This book compares historical and modern natural law ideas across global Christian traditions and explores their use in church law.

Author : Bruce Norman Kaye,Gordon J. Wenham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : 0851117414

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Law, Morality, and the Bible by Bruce Norman Kaye,Gordon J. Wenham Pdf

Author : Cathleen Kaveny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190612290

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Ethics at the Edges of Law by Cathleen Kaveny Pdf

Ethics at the Edges of Law: Christian Moralists and American Legal Thought shows how methods and doctrines drawn from the American legal tradition can constructively advance the discussion of key issues in Christian ethics. More broadly, the book argues that religious ethicists should consider legal thought to be a valuable conversation partner on a par with philosophical thought. Each of the chapters places the work of an important contemporary figure in Christian ethics in conversation with particular legal cases and questions. The book is divided into three major parts: “Narratives and Norms,” “Love, Justice, and Law,” and “Legal Categories and Theological Problems.” Ethicists considered include John Noonan Jr., Stanley Hauerwas, Jeffrey Stout, Gene Outka, Margaret Farley, Paul Ramsey, Robert E. Rodes Jr., Walter Kasper, Germain Grisez and H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. Legal topics explored include the development of the common law as a morally rich tradition, the relationship between rules and particular cases, and the role of individual experience in formulating generally applicable norms. Theological issues discussed include the meaning of covenant fidelity, the requirements of compassion, and the demands of neighbor love. Fruitful intersections between law and theological ethics are developed by considering particular examples and cases from contract law, criminal law, and health-care law. Ethics at the Edges of Law ends by examining the various and often conflicting meanings of the term “legalism,” which has long been considered a derogatory term in Christian moral thought.

Author : David S. Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134185054

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Christian Ethics by David S. Cunningham Pdf

Christian Ethics provides a biblical, historical, philosophical and theological guide to the field of Christian ethics. Prominent theologian David S. Cunningham explores the tradition of ‘virtue ethics’ in this creative and lively text, which includes literary and musical references as well as key contemporary theological texts and figures. Three parts examine: the nature of human action and the people of God as the ‘interpretative community’ within which ethical discourse arises the development of a ‘virtue ethics’ approach, and places this in its Christian context significant issues in contemporary Christian ethics, including the ethics of business and economics, politics, the environment, medicine and sex. This is the essential text for students of all ethics courses in theology, religious studies and philosophy.

Author : Robert F. Cochran, Jr,Michael P. Moreland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000225099

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Christianity and Private Law by Robert F. Cochran, Jr,Michael P. Moreland Pdf

This volume examines the relationship between Christian legal theory and the fields of private law. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in private law theory, and this book contributes to that discussion by drawing on the historical, theological, and philosophical resources of the Christian tradition. The book begins with an introduction from the editors that lays out the understanding of "private law" and what distinguishes private law topics from other fields of law. This section includes two survey chapters on natural law and biblical sources. The remaining sections of the book move sequentially through the fields of property, contracts, and torts. Several chapters focus on historical sources and show the ways in which the evolution of legal doctrine in areas of private law has been heavily influenced by Christian thinkers. Other chapters draw out more contemporary and public policy-related implications for private law. While this book is focused on the relationship of Christianity to private law, it will be of broad interest to those who might not share that faith perspective. In particular, legal historians and philosophers of law will find much of interest in the original scholarship in this volume. The book will be attractive to teachers of law, political science, and theology. It will be of special interest to the many law faculty in property, contracts, and torts, as it provides a set of often overlooked historical and theoretical perspectives on these fields.

Author : Greg L. Bahnsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0967831733

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Theonomy in Christian Ethics by Greg L. Bahnsen Pdf

CD included with PDF files of the book and other materials. MP3 files of Author's lectures.