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Author: William Schweiker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-03-11
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780521657099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSchweiker develops a powerful new theory of responsibility articulated in terms of Christian faith.
Author: Bruce C. Birch
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2018-05-01
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1451438540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarth 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: Brian Brock
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2010-06-28
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 0802865178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough 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
Published: 2017-07-14
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1108509681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780802806406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere 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: Tobias Winright
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: 2021-01-14
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 0567677176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Ethics provides an ecumenical introduction to Christian ethics, its sources, methods, and applications. With contributions by theological ethicists known for their excellence in scholarship and teaching, the essays in this volume offer fresh purchase on, and an agenda for, the discipline of Christian ethics in the 21st century. The essays are organized in three sections, following an introduction that presents the four-font approach and elucidates why it is critically employed through these subsequent sections. The first section explores the sources of Christian ethics, including each of the four fonts: scripture, tradition, experience, and reason. The second section examines fundamental or basic elements of Christian ethics and covers different methods, approaches, and voices in doing Christian ethics, such as natural law, virtue ethics, conscience, responsibility, narrative, worship, and engagement with other religions. The third section addresses current moral issues in politics, medicine, economics, ecology, criminal justice and other related spheres from the perspective of Christian ethics, including war, genetics, neuroethics, end-of-life decisions, marriage, family, work, sexuality, nonhuman animals, migration, aging, policing, incarceration, capital punishment, and more.
Author: David Haddorff
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Published: 2011-05-26
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0227903021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristian 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: Helmut Richard Niebuhr
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780664221522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Dennis P. Hollinger
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2002-09
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 080102563X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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
Published: 2010-07-29
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 0199568863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides both a short history of Christian ethics and looks at itsbasic sources as they arise from Judaism, Greco-Roman ethics, andChristianity
