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This book arises out of contemporary questions regarding the nature
and formation of the church amidst an economically divided society.
Looking to Augustine of Hippo for guidance, Jonathan D. Ryan argues
that the movement from private self-interest toward common love of
God and neighbor is fundamental to the church's formation and
identity amidst contemporary contexts of economic inequality. Ryan
demonstrates the centrality of this theme in Augustine's Sermons
and his monastic instruction (principally the Rule), illustrating
how it shapes his pastoral guidance on matters pertinent to
economic division, including use of material resources, and
attitudes toward rich and poor. By reading Augustine's Sermons
alongside his monastic instruction, this volume allows for a closer
understanding of how Augustine's vision of a common life is
reflected in his pastoral guidance to the wider congregation. The
book's concluding reflections consider what the church in our time
might learn from these aspects of Augustine's teaching regarding
the formation of a common life, as members are drawn together in
love of God and neighbour.
A new ethics for understanding the social forces that shape moral
character. It is easy to be vicious and difficult to be virtuous in
today's world, especially given that many of the social structures
that connect and sustain us enable exploitation and disincentivize
justice. There are others, though, that encourage virtue. In his
book Daniel J. Daly uses the lens of virtue and vice to reimagine
from the ground up a Catholic ethics that can better scrutinize the
social forces that both affect our moral character and contribute
to human well-being or human suffering. Daly's approach uses both
traditional and contemporary sources, drawing on the works of
Thomas Aquinas as well as incorporating theories such as critical
realist social theory, to illustrate the nature and function of
social structures and the factors that transform them. Daly's
ethics focus on the relationship between structure and agency and
the different structures that enable and constrain an individual's
pursuit of the virtuous life. His approach defines with unique
clarity the virtuous structures that facilitate a love of God,
self, neighbor, and creation, and the vicious structures that
cultivate hatred, intemperance, and indifference to suffering. In
doing so, Daly creates a Catholic ethical framework for responding
virtuously to the problems caused by global social systems, from
poverty to climate change.
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To Will & To Do
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Jacques Ellul; Translated by Jacob Marques Rollison
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Othering
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Charles K. Bellinger
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The field of Christian ethics is the subject of frequent
conversation as Christians seek to understand how to live
faithfully within a pluralistic society. The range of ethical
systems and moral philosophies available can be confusing to people
seeking clarity about what the different theories mean for everyday
life. This Spectrum Multiview volume presents a dialogue between
four main approaches to ethics in the Christian tradition. Virtue
ethics focuses less on the action itself and more on the virtuous
character of the moral agent. A divine command approach looks
instead at whether an action has been commanded by God, in which
case it is morally right. Natural law ethics argues for a
universal, objective morality grounded in nature. Finally,
prophetic ethics judges what is morally right in light of a
biblical understanding of divine justice and shalom. The four views
and their proponents are as follows: Brad J. Kallenberg: Virtue
Ethics John Hare: Divine Command Ethics Claire Peterson: Natural
Law Ethics Peter Heltzel: Prophetic Ethics Christian Ethics: Four
Views, edited by noted ethicist Steve Wilkens, presents an
accessible introduction to the key positions in Christian ethics
today. Spectrum Multiview Books offer a range of viewpoints on
contested topics within Christianity, giving contributors the
opportunity to present their position and also respond to others in
this dynamic publishing format.
"Contents: " Maria Antonaccio, "Asceticism, Ethics, and
Contemporary Culture"; John Bowlin, "Tolerance Among the Fathers";
Jennifer Herdt, "Virtue's Semblance: Erasmus and Luther on Pagan
Virtue and the Christian Life"; Mary Hirschfeld, "Standard of
Living and Economic Virtue: Building a Bridge Between Aquinas and
the 21st Century; Jan Jans, "The Belgian Act on Euthanasia"; John
Langan, "Hope in and for the United States"; Melissa Snarr, "A New
Discipline? Beverly Harrison and 'Malestream' Christian Ethics";
and Linda Hogan, Edna McDonagh, Stanley Hauerwas, "The Case for the
Abolition of War in the Twenty-First Century."
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Remorse
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Anthony Bash; Foreword by Martyn Percy
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Wide-ranging and ambitious, "Justice" combines moral philosophy
and Christian ethics to develop an important theory of rights and
of justice as grounded in rights. Nicholas Wolterstorff discusses
what it is to have a right, and he locates rights in the respect
due the worth of the rights-holder. After contending that
socially-conferred rights require the existence of natural rights,
he argues that no secular account of natural human rights is
successful; he offers instead a theistic account.
Wolterstorff prefaces his systematic account of justice as
grounded in rights with an exploration of the common claim that
rights-talk is inherently individualistic and possessive. He
demonstrates that the idea of natural rights originated neither in
the Enlightenment nor in the individualistic philosophy of the late
Middle Ages, but was already employed by the canon lawyers of the
twelfth century. He traces our intuitions about rights and justice
back even further, to Hebrew and Christian scriptures. After
extensively discussing justice in the Old Testament and the New, he
goes on to show why ancient Greek and Roman philosophy could not
serve as a framework for a theory of rights.
Connecting rights and wrongs to God's relationship with
humankind, "Justice" not only offers a rich and compelling
philosophical account of justice, but also makes an important
contribution to overcoming the present-day divide between religious
discourse and human rights.
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