Author : Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1107168899
This book engages Christian love theologies, feminist economics, and political theory to identify elements of a Christian ethic of dependent care relations.
Author : Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Caring
ISBN : 9781316619773
Dependency is a central aspect of human existence, as are dependent care relations: relations between caregivers and young children, persons with disabilities, or frail elderly persons. In this book, Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar argues that many prominent interpretations of Christian love either obscure dependency and care, or fail to adequately address injustice in the global social organization of care. Sullivan-Dunbar engages a wide-ranging interdisciplinary conversation between Christian ethics and economics, political theory, and care scholarship, drawing on the rich body of recent feminist work reintegrating dependency and care into the economic, political, and moral spheres. She identifies essential elements of a Christian ethic of love and justice for dependent care relations in a globalized care economy. She also suggests resources for such an ethic ranging from Catholic social thought, feminist political ethics of care, disability and vulnerability studies, and Christian theological accounts of the divine-human relation.
Author : Petruschka Schaafsma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1009324624
In this book, Petruschka Schaafsma offers an innovative appraisal of family. Eschewing the framework of worry and renewal that currently dominates family studies, she instead explores the topic through the concepts of 'givenness' and 'dependence'. 'Givenness' highlights the fact that family is not chosen; 'dependence' refers to being intimately included in each other's identities and lives. Both experiences are challenging, especially in a contemporary context, where independence and freedom to shape one's own life have become accepted ideals. Schaafsma shows the impasses to which these ideals lead in several disciplines – theology, philosophy, sociology, social anthropology and care ethics. She moves constructively beyond them by tapping literary, artistic and biblical sources for their insights on family. Grounded in a theological approach to family as 'mystery' rather than 'problem', she develops an understanding of the current controversial character of family that accounts for both its ordinary and transcendent character.
Author : Luke Bretherton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1009329006
How does Christian belief and practice relate to living well amid the difficulties of everyday life and the catastrophes and injustices that afflict so many today? In his introduction to Christian ethics, Bretherton provides a new, constructive framework for addressing this question. Connecting the theory and practice of Christian moral thought to contemporary existential concerns, this book integrates classic approaches to the pursuit of wisdom with contemporary liberationist and critical voices. The relationship between human and nonhuman life provides a central focus to the work, foregrounding environmental justice. As well as addressing a broad range of ethical questions, Bretherton situates moral formation and the pursuit of human and nonhuman flourishing alongside a concern for spirituality, pastoral care, and political struggles to survive and thrive in the contemporary context. Written for those seeking a place to start, as well as those seasoned in the field, Bretherton's book provides an innovative ethical framework that moves beyond many of the impasses that shape current moral and political debates.
Author : William Schweiker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 1999-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521657099
Schweiker develops a powerful new theory of responsibility articulated in terms of Christian faith.
Author : Robin Gill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1000041875
Christian Ethics: The Basics sets out clearly and critically the different ways that Augustine, Aquinas and Luther continue to shape ethics today within and across Christian denominations. It assumes no previous knowledge of the subject and can be read by religious believers and non-believers alike. Readers are introduced to Christian ethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing people across the world today. Topics addressed include: Social justice War and peace Migration/immigration Climate change Euthanasia Same-sex marriage Religiously-inspired violence Biotechnology Abrahamic ethics Concise, readable and authoritative, this is the ideal primer for anyone interested in the study of religious ethics and Christianity.
Author : Meghan J. Clark
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666780502
Special Issue on Intersectional Methods and Moral Theology: Introduction Meghan J. Clark, Anna Kasafi Perkins, and Emily Reimer-Barry Cartographies in the Wilderness: A Decolonial Theological Reflection on Intersectionality Rufus Burnett, Jr. An Interdisciplinary Theological Method from the Knowledge of the Forgotten Alexandre A. Martins The Case for Intersectional Theology: An Asian American Catholic Perspective Hoon Choi Enfleshing the Work of Social Production: Gender, Race, and Agency Kristin E. Heyer Intersectionality at the Heart of Oppression and Violence against Women in Law: Case Studies from India Julie George, SSpS Intersectionality and Orthodox Theology: Searching for Spandrels Rachel Contos Black Feminism, Womanism, and Intersectionality Discourse: A Theo-Ethical Roundtable jennifer s. leath, Nontando Hadebe, Nicole Symmonds, and Anna Kasafi Perkins
Author : Susan Frank Parsons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 1996-02-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521468206
Feminists are aware of the diversity of thinking within their own tradition, and of the different approaches to moral questions in which that is manifest. This book describes and analyses that diversity by distinguishing three distinct paradigms of moral reasoning to be found within feminism. Using the writings of feminists, the major strengths and weaknesses of each theory are considered, so that creative dialogue between them can be encouraged. Three common themes are drawn out - which are also on the agenda of new developments in philosophical and Christian ethics: the search for an appropriate universalism, the possibility of a redemptive community and the development of a new humanism. Feminists may be encouraged, through this account of their considerable scholarship in ethical thinking, to contribute to these changes with their special concern for the lives and the fulfilment of women.
Author : Lisa Sowle Cahill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521578486
This book endorses feminist critiques of gender, yet upholds the insight of traditional Christianity that sex, commitment and parenthood are fulfilling human relations. Their unity is a positive ideal, though not an absolute norm. Women and men should enjoy equal personal respect and social power. In reply to feminist critics of oppressive gender and sex norms and to communitarian proponents of Christian morality, Cahill argues that effective intercultural criticism of injustice requires a modest defence of moral objectivity. She thus adopts a critical realism as its moral foundation, drawing on Aristotle and Aquinas. Moral judgment should be based on reasonable, practical, prudent and cross-culturally nuanced reflection on human experience. This is combined with a New Testament model of community, centred on solidarity, compassion and inclusion of the economically or socially marginalised.
Author : Robin Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107000076
Twenty essays providing an authoritative introduction to Christian ethics, addressing issues such as war, social justice, ecology, sexuality and medicine.
