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Author : Richard C. Sparks
Publisher : Crossroad
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017566550
Here are 100 honest, engaging answers to the most asked moral questions. This pastorial oriented guide gives the viewpoints of Roman Catholic and Protestant churches to these and other crucial questions.
Author : Mark Coppenger
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805464207
A respected Christian apologist thoughtfully pushes back against critics of the faith as well as cultural relativists, arguing that Christianity is morally superior to its competitors and, above all, true.
Author : Esteban T. Salibay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9715846971
Author : Geoffrey W. Sutton,Brandon Schmidly
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498204774
Should society care about Christian morality? Are Christians out of touch with complex moral decision-making? Christian Morality: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Thinking about Contemporary Moral Issues provides readers with a framework for identifying and applying Christian moral principles to divisive issues. First, readers learn of the theological and philosophical foundations of Christian ethics. Two additional chapters explain how personal and social factors influence our capacity to think critically and Christianly about morality. Second, readers will learn about forming Christian moral judgments by seeing how different thinkers address six contemporary moral issues: abortion, same-sex relationships, equal treatment of men and women in the workplace, sex education, and racial bias in incarceration polices.
Author : Ian T. Ramsey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781610972093
In a time when more and more people are discovering they can have a rational morality without an orthodox God, these twenty-four essays reappraise the whole character of Christian ethics and criticize the traditional underpinning of morality by religion.Edited by Ian T. Ramsey, professor of philosophy at Oxford University, the volume is a valuable sequel to the well-known New Essays in Philosophical Theology. The contributors include atheists, agnostics, and Christians. Among them are Ninian Smart, R. B. Braithwaite, Ronald Hepburn, and Iris Murdoch.The essays do not attempt to examine specific Christian questions in any sort of theological detail; rather, their primary concern is with problems that arise principally in a philosophical context. But they are concerned with issues that lie behind the present bewilderment in Christian morality.Stressing the diversity of moral situations, the papers show that these are far from being homogeneous and rule-determined. Moral decision demands personal involvement, activating the possibility of "good" and "bad" reasons for making such a decision. The essays point out the character of moral disagreements and also remind us that morality is not only of individual but also of social significance. The last section of the book examines the present concept of natural law; its possible erosion by developments in anthropology, psychology, and philosophy; and whether the possibility exists for a theory of morality that unites both natural-law theory and Christian ethics.
Author : C. Melissa Snarr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567495778
Christian ethicists from a wide spectrum of methods and commitments come together in arguing for some kind of social conception of the self, noticing that convergence sheds new light on the current range of theoretical options in Christian ethics. But it also opens up an important conversation about political reform. Social visions of the self help ethicists comprehend and evaluate the moral work of institutions--comprehension that is especially important in a time of crisis for democratic participation. But not all visions of the social self are equal. Snarr's book explores and evaluates five different visions of the social self from five key ethicists (Rauschenbusch, Niebuhr, Hauerwas, Harrison, and Townes). It identifies insights and risks associated with each vision of the self and considers the adequacy of each vision for reforms that deepen democracy. The book concludes with a proposal for six core convictions about the social self that help form Christian political ethics able to respond to contemporary needs for democratic reform.
Author : Richard W. McCarty
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438454290
Uses virtue ethics to offer a sexual ethics inclusive of LGBT and straight people, one that challenges the longstanding procreative patriarchal norm. Richard W. McCarty offers a compassionate and inclusive conception of sexual virtue, one that liberates Christians from traditional patriarchal requirements for heterosexuality, marriage, and procreation. Daring to depart from ongoing debates about what Aristotle or Aquinas had to say, this book sets a new course centered on virtue ethics. It employs new insights from the sciences, biblical scholarship, analyses of church traditions, and revisionist natural law thinking. Eschewing simple deconstruction of traditional Christian norms for sexual morality, McCarty offers constructive ideas about what might count as real human goods for people in a wide variety of sexual relationships. Recreation, relational intimacy, and selective acts of procreation are three ends of sexual virtue that promote human happiness and can be appreciated in a broad Christian framework. While primarily referencing the Roman Catholic intellectual tradition, McCartys work is also vital and accessible to those from Protestant backgrounds. Addressed to LGBT and straight readers, Sexual Virtue provides a compassionate sexual ethics for our time.
Author : Michael C. Banner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521625548
This book addresses such key ethical issues as euthanasia, the environment, biotechnology, abortion, the family, sexual ethics, and the distribution of health care resources. Michael Banner argues that the task of Christian ethics is to understand the world and humankind in the light of the credal affirmations of the Christian faith, and to explicate this understanding in its significance for human action through a critical engagement with the concerns, claims and problems of other ethics. He illustrates both the distinctiveness of Christian convictions in relation to the above issues and also the critical dialogue with practices based on other convictions which this sense of distinctiveness motivates but does not prevent. The book's importance lies in its attempt to show the crucial difference which Christian belief makes to an understanding of these issues, whilst at the same time demonstrating some of the weaknesses and confusions of certain popular approaches to them.
Author : Arthur F. Holmes
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015066887087
"War and Christian Ethics looks to influential writers throughout history to determine the theoretical issues involved in shaping a Christian criticism of war. It brings together source materials from the most influential patristic, medieval, and modern writers dealing with the morality of war from a variety of perspectives."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Richard W. McCarty
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438454306
Uses virtue ethics to offer a sexual ethics inclusive of LGBT and straight people, one that challenges the longstanding procreative patriarchal norm. Richard W. McCarty offers a compassionate and inclusive conception of sexual virtue, one that liberates Christians from traditional patriarchal requirements for heterosexuality, marriage, and procreation. Daring to depart from ongoing debates about what Aristotle or Aquinas had to say, this book sets a new course centered on virtue ethics. It employs new insights from the sciences, biblical scholarship, analyses of church traditions, and revisionist natural law thinking. Eschewing simple deconstruction of traditional Christian norms for sexual morality, McCarty offers constructive ideas about what might count as real human goods for people in a wide variety of sexual relationships. Recreation, relational intimacy, and selective acts of procreation are three ends of sexual virtue that promote human happiness and can be appreciated in a broad Christian framework. While primarily referencing the Roman Catholic intellectual tradition, McCarty’s work is also vital and accessible to those from Protestant backgrounds. Addressed to LGBT and straight readers, Sexual Virtue provides a compassionate sexual ethics for our time. Richard W. McCarty is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Mercyhurst University.
Author : Robert J. Daly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:39000000347539
Author : Richard Hays
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567518538
Richard Hays explores the ethical values and dynamics with which Jesus himself lived to show how the New Testament provides challenging moral guidance on some of the most important contemporary ethical issues.
Author : Millard J. Erickson
Publisher : Baker Publishing Group (MI)
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0801033152
Author : David G. Horrell
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467452618
In this volume David Horrell focuses on themes of community, ethics, and ecology in Paul, moving from the concrete social circumstances in which the earliest Christian communities gathered to the appropriation of Paul’s writings in relation to modern ethical challenges. Often questioning established consensus positions, Horrell opens up new perspectives and engages with ongoing debates both in Pauline studies and in contemporary ethics. After covering historical questions about the setting of the Paul-ine communities, The Making of Christian Morality analyzes Paul-ine ethics through a detailed study of particular passages. In the third and final section Horrell brings Pauline thought to bear on contemporary issues and challenges, using the environmental crisis as a case study to demonstrate how Paul’s ethics can be appropriated fruitfully in a world so different from Paul’s own.
Author : R. Keith Loftin
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830863457
Is morality dependent upon belief in God? Is there more than one way for Christians to understand the nature of morality? Is there any agreement between Christians and atheists or agnostics on this heated issue? In God and Morality: Four Views four distinguished voices in moral philosophy ariticulate and defend their place in the current debate between naturalism and theism. Christian philosophers, Keith Yandell and Mark Linville and two self-identified atheist/agnostics, Evan Fales and Michael Ruse clearly and honestly represent their differing views on the nature of morality. Important differences as well as areas of overlap emerge as each contributor states their case, receives criticism from the others and responds. Of particular value for use as an academic text, these four essays and responses, covering the naturalist moral non-realist, naturalist moral realist, moral essentialist and moral particularist views, will foster critical thinking and contribute to the development of a well-informed position on this very important issue.