Family Ethics
Family Ethics

Author: Julie Hanlon Rubio

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2010-03-17

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 158901667X

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How can ordinary Christians find moral guidance for the mundane dilemmas they confront in their daily lives? To answer this question, Julie Hanlon Rubio brings together a rich Catholic theology of marriage and a strong commitment to social justice to focus on the place where the ethics of ordinary life are played out: the family. Sex, money, eating, spirituality, and service. According to Rubio, all are areas for practical application of an ethics of the family. In each area, intentional practices can function as acts of resistance to a cultural and middle-class conformity that promotes materialism over relationships. These practices forge deep connections within the family and help families live out their calling to be in solidarity with others and participate in social change from below. It is through these everyday moral choices that most Christians can live out their faith—and contribute to progress in the world.

Christian Ethics and the Moral Psychologies
Christian Ethics and the Moral Psychologies

Author: Don S. Browning

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2006-05-17

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780802831712

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Interest in psychology permeates our culture, with psychological solutions advanced for a host of moral dilemmas. How should ethically minded Christians include insights from such disciplines as psychoanalysis, cognitive moral development, and neuroscience in their theological reflection? Don Browning offers a serious proposal for combining these disciplines with the best in ethical reflection from a Christian standpoint. Along the way, he introduces readers to the moral psychology work of Sigmund Freud, Carol Gilligan, Antonio Damasio, and others, opening up a dialogue between their work and the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. Browning also recognizes the potential limits of the conversation between Christian ethics and the moral psychologies, pointing out where they must diverge.

The Family in Christian Social and Political Thought
The Family in Christian Social and Political Thought

Author: Brent Waters

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2007-07-19

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 019153398X

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Brent Waters examines the historical roots and contemporary implications of the virtual disappearance of the family in late liberal and Christian social and political thought. Waters argues that the principal cause of this disappearance is late liberalism's fixation on individual autonomy, which renders familial bonds unintelligible. He traces the history of this emphasis, from its origin in Hobbes and Locke, through Kant, to such contemporary theorists as Rawls and Okin. In response, Waters offers an alternative normative account of the family's role in social and political ordering, drawing upon the work of Althusius, Grotius, Dooyeweerd, and O'Donovan.

Brave New Families
Brave New Families

Author: Scott B. Rae

Publisher: Baker Publishing Group (MI)

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Brave New Families explores reproductive technologies from an evangelical viewpoint and identifies and organizes principles that cover bioethical issues. Rae bases considerations on biblical grounds and discusses such topics as surrogate motherhood, prenatal genetic testing, artificial insemination, and the moral status of fetuses and embryos.256 pp.

Science and Christian Ethics
Science and Christian Ethics

Author: Paul Scherz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-05-09

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1108482201

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The scientific reproducibility crisis is a crisis of character. Stoic and Christian spiritual exercises build virtues that address these problems.

God, Marriage, and Family
God, Marriage, and Family

Author: Andreas J. Köstenberger

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1433503646

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This updated edition of Köstenberger and Jones's landmark work tackles the latest debates and cultural challenges to God's plan for marriage and the family and urges a return to a biblical foundation.

Christian Bioethics
Christian Bioethics

Author: C. Ben Mitchell

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 143367114X

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A biblically informed guidebook for Christians facing difficult health care decisions, from the making of life (infertility, organ donation, cloning) and taking of life (abortion, euthanasia) to the technologically driven faking of life (genetic engineering, etc.).

The Family and Christian Ethics
The Family and Christian Ethics

Author: Petruschka Schaafsma

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-08-10

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1009324616

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Explores family not as a problem but as a mystery in order to understand its current controversial character.

Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics
Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics

Author: Lisa Sowle Cahill

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-08-28

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780521578486

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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.

Gender and Christian Ethics
Gender and Christian Ethics

Author: Adrian Thatcher

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-10-22

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1108839487

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Provides strong theological arguments for replacing the binary understanding of gender, and for the embracing of sexual minorities.