Author : Kirk M. Summers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0190280077
Morality after Calvin examines the development of ethical thought in the Reformed tradition immediately following the death of Calvin, using Theodore Beza's Cato Censorius Christianus (1591) as a point of departure. The book examines the theology that drove the disciplinary activity at Geneva in the latter half of the sixteenth century.
Author : Donald K. McKim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1107494680
John Calvin (1509–64) stands with Martin Luther (1483–1546) as the premier theologian of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. Calvin's thought spread throughout Europe to the New World and later throughout the whole world. His insights and influence continue to endure today, presenting a model of theological scholarship grounded in Scripture as well as providing nurture for Christian believers within churches across the globe. Dr Donald K. McKim gathers together an international array of major Calvin scholars to consider phases of Calvin's theological thought and influence. Historians and theologians meet to present a full picture of Calvin's contexts, the major themes in Calvin's writings, and the ways in which his thought spread and has increasing importance. Chapters serve as guides to their topics and provide further readings for additional study. This is an accessible introduction to this significant Protestant reformer and will appeal to the specialist and non-specialist alike.
Author : Gregory Mellema
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 9789042017429
Moral expectation is a concept with which all of us are well acquainted. Already as children we learn that certain courses of action are expected of us. We are expected to perform certain actions, and we are expected to refrain from other actions. Furthermore, we learn that something is morally wrong with the failure to do what we are morally expected to do. A central theme of this book is that moral expectation should not be confused with moral obligation. While we are morally expected to do everything we are obligated to do, a person can be morally expected to do some things that he or she is not morally obligated to do. Although moral expectation is a familiar notion, it has not been the object of investigation in its own right. In the early chapters Mellema attempts to provide a philosophical account of this familiar notion, distinguish it from other types of expectations, and show how it is possible to form false moral expectations. Subsequent chapters explore the role of moral expectation in agreements between people, analyze ways that people avoid moral expectation, illustrate how groups can have moral expectations, and view moral expectation in the context of our relationship with divine beings. The final chapter provides insight into how moral expectation operates in people's professional lives.
Author : Guenther H. Haas
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 1997-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0889202850
In the heart of this study, Part Two, "Equity in Calvin's Ethics," Haas presents a thorough exposition and analysis of the extensive role the concept of equity plays in Calvin's ethics. He clearly demonstrates that Calvin's approach to ethics is not restricted to the meditation of the text of Scripture.
Author : Marilyn McCord Adams
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253024382
Provocative essays that seek “to turn the attention of analytic philosophy of religion on the problem of evil . . . towards advances in ethical theory” (Reading Religion). The contributors to this book—Marilyn McCord Adams, John Hare, Linda Zagzebski, Laura Garcia, Bruce Russell, Stephen Wykstra, and Stephen Maitzen—attended two University of Notre Dame conferences in which they addressed the thesis that there are yet untapped resources in ethical theory for affecting a more adequate solution to the problem of evil. The problem of evil has been an extremely active area of study in the philosophy of religion for many years. Until now, most sources have focused on logical, metaphysical, and epistemological issues, leaving moral questions as open territory. With the resources of ethical theory firmly in hand, this volume provides lively insight into this ageless philosophical issue. “These essays—and others—will be of primary interest to scholars working in analytic philosophy of religion from a self-consciously Christian standpoint, but its audience is not limited to such persons. The book offers illustrative examples of how scholars in philosophy of religion understand their aims and how they go about making their arguments . . . hopefully more work will follow this volume’s lead.”—Reading Religion “Recommended.”—Choice
Author : Peter H. Sedgwick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004384928
In The Origins of Anglican Moral Theology Peter H. Sedgwick shows how Anglican moral theology has a distinctive ethos, drawing on Scripture, Augustine, the medieval theologians (Abelard, Aquinas and Scotus), and the great theologians of the Reformation, such as Luther and Calvin. A series of studies of Tyndale, Perkins, Hooker, Sanderson and Taylor shows the flourishing of this discipline from 1530 to 1670. Anglican moral theology has a coherence which enables it to engage in dialogue with other Christian theological traditions and to present a deeply pastoral but intellectually rigorous theological position. This book is unique because the origins of Anglican moral theology have never been studied in depth before.
Author : Paul Tillich
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664255640
Paul Tillich's classic work confronts the age-old question of how the moral is related to the religious. In particular, Tillich addresses the conflict between reason-determined ethics and faith-determined ethics and shows that neither is dependent on the other but that each alone is inadequate. Instead, Tillich reveals to us the gift that came with the arrival of Christ: a new reality that offers a power of being in which we can participate and out of which true thought and right action are possible. The Library of Theological Ethics series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important and otherwise unavailable texts in easily accessible form. Volumes in this series will enable sustained dialogue with predecessors though reflection on classic works in the field.
Author : Jordan Joseph Ballor
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780367534660
Introduction: Exploring Adam Smith's theological contexts, sources, and significance / Jordan J. Ballor and Cornelis van der Kooi -- Bourgeois culture : understanding Adam Smith's moral horizon / Govert J. Buijs -- A survey of Adam Smith's theological sources / Jordan J. Ballor -- Calvin and Smith on providence, morality, virtues, and human flourishing / Cornelis van der Kooi -- Self-love and its discontents : trajectories in reformed moral philosophy and theology before Adam Smith / Andrew M. McGinnis -- Smith and the scholastic tradition on markets and their moral rationale / Edd Noell -- Adam Smith's seventeenth-century French theological sources / Ryan Patrick Hanley -- Smith and enlightened Augustinianism / Joost Hengstmengel -- Adam Smith's theological hinterland / David Fergusson -- Butler and Smith's ethical and theological framing of commerce / Erik W. Matson -- Adam Smith's theory of the moral vicegerents of God / Rudi Verburg -- Adam Smith's theology and virtues as conditions for the potential of free-market economies to contribute to human flourishing / Johan Graafland -- The Adam Smith problem theologically reconsidered / Luigino Bruni and Paolo Santori -- Smith on moral agency, and the moral significance of context / Christina McRorie.
Author : Tracy J. Trothen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2017-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319624881
This collection vigorously addresses the religious implications of extreme human enhancement technology. Topics covered include cutting edge themes, such as moral enhancement, common ground to both transhumanism and religion, the meaning of death, desire and transcendence, and virtue ethics. Radical enhancement programs, advocated by transhumanists, could arguably have a more profound impact than any other development in human history. Reflecting a range of opinion about the desirability of extreme enhancement, leading scholars in the field join with emerging scholars to foster enhanced conversation on these topics.
Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1623569818
Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.
