Altruism and Christian Ethics (Hardcover)

Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterized by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity, so that its dismissal represents a social leveling that loses the depths that theology makes intelligible and religion makes possible. He argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and with the divine transformation of human possibilities.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Studies in Christian Ethics
Release date:	November 2000
First published:	2001
Authors:	Colin Grant
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-79144-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian life & practice > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian life & practice > General Books > Christianity > Christian life & practice
LSN:	0-521-79144-8
Barcode:	9780521791441

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