Book Description
'. . . this is a good book that will well serve both students who are new to Ramsey and those who might not be better acquainted with his work . . .'-THE JOURNAL OF RELIGION
Author : David T. E. Attwood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780847676866
'. . . this is a good book that will well serve both students who are new to Ramsey and those who might not be better acquainted with his work . . .'-THE JOURNAL OF RELIGION
Author : Paul Ramsey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300058154
Paul Ramsey was one of the most important ethicists of the twentieth century. From the publication of his classic Basic Christian Ethics in 1950 until his death in 1988, his writings decisively shaped moral discourse and reflection in the areas of theology, law, politics, and medicine. This collection of Ramsey's most important essays on Christian, political, and medical ethics displays the scope and depth of his vision, highlighting both the character of his theological commitments and the continuing significance of his work for the pressing moral problems of our day. Selections deal with such issues as race relations, sexuality and marriage, war, the meaning of Christian love, abortion, and medical care for the sick and dying. A general introduction by William Werpehowski and Stephen D. Crocco evaluates Ramsey's career and accomplishments and reviews contemporary criticism of his output and legacy. Shorter introductions to each selection point out crucial themes and lines of development in Ramsey's thought.
Author : David Attwood
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 12,93 MB
Release : 1989
Category :
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Author : D. Attwood
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN :
Author : Adam Edward Hollowell
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802871887
Not long ago, Paul Ramsey (1913-1988) was a leading voice in North American Christian ethics. Today, however, his intellectual legacy is in question, and his work is largely ignored by current scholars in the field. Against the tide of that neglect, Adam Edward Hollowell argues in Power and Purpose that Ramsey's work can still yield considerable insight for contemporary Christian political theology. Hollowell shows the influences of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Barth on Ramsey's early work; discusses his conversations with political theologians of his generation, including Reinhold and Richard Niebuhr and Joseph Fletcher; considers his influence on the early virtue theory of Jean Porter and Oliver O'Donovan; and places Ramsey's work in conversation with more recent voices in Christian ethics, including John Bowlin, Jennifer Herdt, Charles Mathewes, Eric Gregory, and Daniel Bell. Hollowell thus forges new connections between Ramsey and contemporary debates in political theology on such issues as political authority, power, just war, and torture. Hollowell's Power and Purpose also revisits well-known aspects of Ramsey's work -- for example, his insistence on the political significance of God's covenant with creation -- and offers an original account of the role of judgment in his theology of repentance. The book dedicates considerable attention to Ramsey's description of practical reasoning and highlights his commitment to the virtues, especially prudence. This accessible introduction to Paul Ramsey will appeal to a wide swath of scholars and students in Christian ethics and political theology.
Author : D. Stephen Long
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1000009440
In this original interpretation and critique of Paul Ramsey’s ethical thought, D. Stephen Long traces the development of one of the mid-twentieth century’s most important and controversial religious social thinkers. Long examines Ramsey’s early liberal idealism as well as later influences on his work, including the just war doctrine, Reinhold Niebu
Author : Michael McKenzie
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :
This book examines the moral philosophy of Paul Ramsey—one of the 20th century's most influential ethicists—from a theological perspective illustrating that religion can still play a substantial role in our ongoing moral inquiries. Ramsey wrote prodigiously on ethical issues including politics, medical research, the Vietnam war, and nuclear proliferation. His ethical theory, which concentrates on divine love, or `agape,' as well as justice and order, provides a middle ground between fundamentalism and secularism. Therefore, Ramsey's ethics will appeal to the 21st-century social conscience. McKenzie grounds his theological exploration in a comprehensive history of the theological and philosophical influences on Ramsey's thought, including Jonathan Edwards' theory of natural morality. He also explores a multidisciplinary selection of Ramsey's writings. In conclusion, McKenzie argues that Ramsey's natural law theory will continue to have significant and increasing relevance for morality in the postmodern world. This is the most thorough study of Paul Ramsey's work as well as a significant contribution to philosophy and theology.
Author : Paul Ramsey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780742522329
With a new foreword by noted theologian and ethicist Stanley Hauerwas, this classic text on war and the ethics of modern statecraft written at the height of the Vietnam era in 1968 speaks to a new generation of readers. Characterized by a sophisticated yet back-to-basics approach, The Just War begins with the assumption that force is a fact in political life which must either be reckoned with or succumbed to. It then grapples with modern challenges to traditional moral principles of "just conduct" in war, the "morality of deterrence," and a "just war theory of statecraft."
Author : James Turner Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Philosophy
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Author : Kevin Carnahan
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The work explores the distinctive influences of philosophical pragmatism and absolute idealism on Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Ramsey, two influential twentieth-century theologians, who learned from and transformed these philosophies in the light of contemporary theological trends. It explores how these theologians shaped their moral theologies, political theories, and approaches to war in the light of these philosophies.