The Identity Of Christian Morality

Author : Ann Marie Mealey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317027973

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The Identity of Christian Morality by Ann Marie Mealey Pdf

This book argues that moral theology has yet to embrace the recommendations of the Second Vatican Council concerning the ways in which it is to be renewed. One of the reasons for this is the lack of consensus between theologians regarding the nature, content and uniqueness of Christian morality. After highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the so-called autonomy and faith ethic schools of thought, Mealey argues that there is little dividing them and that, in some instances, both schools are simply defending one aspect of a hermeneutical dialectic. In an attempt to move away from the divisions between proponents of the faith-ethic and autonomy positions, Mealey enlists the help of the hermeneutical theory of Paul Ricoeur. She argues that many of the disagreements arising from the Christian proprium debate can be overcome if scholars look to the possibilities opened up by Ricoeur's hermeneutics of interpretation. Mealey also argues that the uniqueness of Christian morality is more adequately explained in terms of a specific identity (self) that is constantly subject to change and revision in light of many, often conflicting, moral sources. She advocates a move away from attempts to explain the uniqueness of Christian morality in terms of one specific, unchanging context, motivation, norm, divine command or value. By embracing the possibilities opened up by Ricoeurian hermeneutics, Mealey explains how concepts such as revelation, tradition, orthodoxy and moral conscience may be understood in a hermeneutical way without being deemed sectarian or unorthodox.

Author : James B. Nelson
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664256783

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Moral Nexus by James B. Nelson Pdf

A quarter of a century ago, James Nelson anticipated the impact of church socialization and its relation to individual moral behavior and identification as well as much of the current concern with character and community. Utilizing principles from the behavioral and social sciences, Nelson argues compellingly that we are social selves whose personal identities and patterns of morality are inexplicable apart from the groups and communities with which we most significantly identify. Thus, Christian ethics and Christian community can be understood only in relation to each other.

Author : Jan G. van der Watt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110893939

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Identity, Ethics, and Ethos in the New Testament by Jan G. van der Watt Pdf

The book deals with the relation between identity, ethics, and ethos in the New Testament. The focus falls on the way in which the commandments or guidelines presented in the New Testament writings inform the behaviour of the intended recipients. The habitual behaviour (ethos) of the different Christian communities in the New Testament are plotted and linked to their identity. Apart from analytical categories like ethos, ethics, and identity that are clearly defined in the book, efforts are also made to broaden the specific analytical categories related to ethical material. The way in which, for instance, narratives, proverbial expressions, imagery, etc. inform the reader about the ethical demands or ethos is also explored.

Author : Bruce C. Birch
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451404603

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Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life by Bruce C. Birch Pdf

Among the topics treated are: Christian ethics as community ethics Charting the moral life Elements of character formation Character and social structure Decision making The nature and role of biblical authority Uses of Scripture in Christian ethics

Author : Kevin Jung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317555780

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Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality by Kevin Jung Pdf

Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality goes against the grain of various postmodern approaches to morality in contemporary religious ethics. In this book, Jung seeks to provide a new framework in which the nature of common Christian moral beliefs and practices can be given a new meaning. He suggests that, once major philosophical assumptions behind postmodern theories of morality are called into question, we may look at Christian morality in quite a different light. On his account, Christian morality is a historical morality insofar as it is rooted in the rich historical traditions of the Christian church. Yet this kind of historical dependence does not entail the evidential dependence of all moral beliefs on historical traditions. It is possible to argue for the epistemic autonomy of moral beliefs, according to which Christian and other moral beliefs can be justified independently of their historical sources. The particularity of Christian morality lies not in its particular historical sources that also function as the grounds of justification, but rather in its explanatory and motivational capacity to further articulate the kind of moral knowledge that is readily available to most human beings and to enable people to act upon their moral knowledge.

Author : William Spohn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441190673

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Go and Do Likewise by William Spohn Pdf

What does Jesus have to do with ethics? There are two brief answers given by believers: "everything" and "not much." While evangelical or fundamentalist Christians would find authoritative guidance in the words and commands of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament, many mainstream Christian ethicists would say that Jesus is too concrete or narrowly particular to have any direct import for ethics.In this book, Williams Spohn takes a middle way, showing how Jesus is the "concrete universal" of Christian ethics. By forming a bridge from the lives of contemporary Christians to the words and deeds of Jesus, Jesus' story as a whole exemplifies moral perception, motivation and Christian identity.In addition, Spohn shows how the practices of Christian spirituality--specifically prayer, service, and community--train the imagination and reorient emotions to produce a character and a way of life consonant with Christian New Testament moral teaching.

Author : David G. Horrell
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467452618

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The Making of Christian Morality by David G. Horrell Pdf

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 : Vincent MacNamara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : UOM:39015049008462

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Faith and Ethics by Vincent MacNamara Pdf

Author : Josef Fuchs, SJ
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1983-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 158901863X

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Personal Responsibility and Christian Morality by Josef Fuchs, SJ Pdf

In this volume, Josef Fuchs has brought together 12 important essays which consider various aspects of the relationship between Christian morality and human behavior. Among the subjects he discusses are the connections between moral theology and Christian experience, the absolute character of moral norms, and the importance of ethical reflection in shaping the future of the human race.

Author : William Tillman
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433669897

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Understanding Christian Ethics by William Tillman Pdf

The student, church staff person layperson, or professional ethicist searching for an introduction to contemporary ethical issues that is substantive enough for class room use yet functionally oriented toward the local church will find Understanding Christian Ethics invaluable.

Author : Hak Joon Lee
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467462624

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Christian Ethics by Hak Joon Lee Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004343535

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Christianity and the Roots of Morality by Anonim Pdf

Christianity and the Roots of Morality combines philosophical, early Christian and empirical studies to cast light on the role of religion, especially Christianity, in morality, pro-social behavior and altruism.

Author : Geoffrey W. Sutton,Brandon Schmidly
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498204774

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Christian Morality by Geoffrey W. Sutton,Brandon Schmidly Pdf

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 : Karl-Heinz Peschke
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725231481

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Christian Ethics, Volume 1 by Karl-Heinz Peschke Pdf

This recent edition of Christian Ethics Volume I is a thoroughly revised and updated version of fundamental moral theology. As in the previous editions, the author makes himself an interpreter of the demands of Vatican Council II and its request that moral theology be rooted more fully in Holy Scripture. At the same time account is taken of the new developments in the field of ethics. New issues of actual concern are taken up, such as the deontological and teleological conditions of moral norms, the confrontation between conscience and civil or ecclesiastical law, the communal roots of Christian identity, the requirement of liberty and the ethical compromise. The book addresses itself to all who are interested in the moral teaching of the Christian faith and endeavors to be a helpful instrument to this end.

Author : Stanley Hauerwas,Samuel Wells
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781405128759

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The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics by Stanley Hauerwas,Samuel Wells Pdf

The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics presents a comprehensive and systematic exposition of Christian ethics, seen through the lens of Christian worship. An innovative exposition of Christian ethics, seen through the lens of Christian worship Challenges conventional approaches to the subject Restores a sense of the integral connection between Christian ethics and theology Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most influential figures in Christian ethics around the world Embraces contributors from the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, Mennonite and Pentecostal traditions Designed to be accessible to introductory students Will have a major impact on the discipline of Christian ethics