Author : William Schweiker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 1999-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521657099
Schweiker develops a powerful new theory of responsibility articulated in terms of Christian faith.
Author : Bruce C. Birch
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451438540
Earth is changing in ways it hasn't for hundreds of thousands of years. At the same time, Christianity is breaking away from its millennium-long geographical and cultural center in the Euro-West. Its growth is in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, primarily in Pentecostal, evangelical, and independent churches. These dramatically changed planetary and ecclesial landscapes have led many to conclude that we need a new way of thinking about our collective existence: who are we and what is the nature of our responsibility in this deeply altered world? To address that question, biblical scholars Bruce C. Birch and Jacqueline E. Lapsley and Christian ethicists Larry L. Rasmussen and Cynthia Moe-Lobeda carry on "a new conversation" that engages how Christians are to understand the authority and use of Scripture, the basic elements of any full-bodied Christian ethic attuned to our circumstances, and the nature of our responsibility to our planetary neighbors and creation itself.
Author : Helmut Richard Niebuhr
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664221522
The Responsible Self was H. Richard Niebuhr's most important work in Christian ethics. In it he probes the most fundamental character of the moral life and it stands today as a landmark contribution to the field. 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 : Brian Brock
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802865178
Through close analysis of the historical and conceptual roots of modern science and technology, Brian Brock here develops a theological ethic addressing a wide range of contemporary perplexities about the moral challenges raised by new technology.
Author : David Elliot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1108509681
The theological virtue of hope has long been neglected in Christian ethics. However, as social, civic and global anxieties mount, the need to overcome despair has become urgent. This book proposes the theological virtue of hope as a promising source of rejuvenation. Theological hope sustains us from the sloth, presumption and despair that threaten amid injustice, tragedy and dying; it provides an ultimate meaning and transcendent purpose to our lives; and it rejoices and refreshes us 'on the way' with the prospect of eternal beatitude. Rather than degrading this life and world, hope ordains earthly goods to our eschatological end, forming us to pursue social justice with a resilience and vitality that transcend the cynicism and disillusionment so widespread at present. Drawing on Thomas Aquinas and virtue ethics, the book shows how the virtue of hope contributes to human happiness in this life and not just the next.
Author : Wayne G. Boulton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802806406
Here is a single volume that effectively introduces students to the full breadth of the discipline of Christian ethics. Essays deal with both concrete issues and theoretical foundations. Revevant biblical readings and a series of case studies accentuate the text.
Author : David Haddorff
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 22,42 MB
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0227903021
Christian ethics is less a system of principles, rules, or even virtues, and more of a free and open-ended responsible witness to God's gracious action to be with and for others and the world. Postmodernity has left us with the risky uncertainty of knowing and doing the good. It also leaves us with the global risks of political violence and terrorism, economic globalization and financial crisis, and environmental destruction and global climate change. How should Christians respond to these problems? Thisbook creatively explores how Christian ethics is best understood as a witness to God's action, thereby providing the ethical framework for addressing the various problematic social issues that put our world at risk. Haddorff develops the notion of witness through a detailed study of Karl Barth's theological ethics. Barth, he argues, provides a language enabling us to know what a Christian ethics of witness actually looks like in both theory and in practice. In correspondence to God's gracious action, Christians remain free to think and act in faith, hope, and love in respondence to their unique circumstances, even in a world at risk. In their witness, Christians remain confident that God has not abandoned the world but loves and cares for its future.
Author : Dennis P. Hollinger
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 2002-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080102563X
An intelligent discussion of the foundations and methods in ethics and ways to apply a Christian worldview to our secular culture.
Author : D. Stephen Long
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199568863
This book provides both a short history of Christian ethics and looks at itsbasic sources as they arise from Judaism, Greco-Roman ethics, andChristianity
Author : Robert Gascoigne
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 25,40 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780809142217
"Freedom and Purpose is a contemporary introduction to Christian ethics in the Roman Catholic tradition. Christian ethics is presented as a distinctive contribution to a universally human task, grounded in the love of God revealed in Christ and deriving its distinct contours and motivation from the shape of Christian revelation. [from back cover]
