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In this book, originally published in 1968, James M. Gustafson asks the fundamental question, what is the significance of Jesus for the moral life? His answer is in the form of an ethical map, showing the ways in which theological affirmations about Christ relate to moral life in the writings of a number of important Christian thinkers. Gustafson has written a new preface for this edition. 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.
Gustafson's two-volume work has been hailed as a major contribution
to Christian ethics. In this second volume, Gustafson considers
marriage, suicide, and the allocation of resources in famine and in
biomedical research to develop an ethical outlook in which divine
purpose is the basis of moral activity.
""Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective" will surprise some, shock
others, and unleash a flood of speculation about what has happened
to James Gustafson. The answer quite simply is nothing has happened
to Gustafson except that he has now turned his attention to
developing his constructive theological position, and we should all
be very glad. . . . In this, the first of two volumes, Gustafson
displays his colors as a constructive theologian, and they are
indeed brilliant and splendid. . . . Though Gustafson is a
theologian who works in the Christian tradition, he reminds us that
the God Christians worship is not merely the Christian God. For
Gustafson the kind of God who is the object of the theologians's
reflection eludes or surpasses the inevitably confessional activity
of Christian theological reflection. Thus Gustafson, the
constructive theologian, is also Gustafson the revisionist
theologian who takes as his task nothing less than challenging the
anthropocentrism that he alleges characterizes mainstream Western
Christian theology."--Stanley Hauerwas, "Journal of Religion"
Is there a special relation between religious beliefs and moral
behavior? In particular, is there a distinctive Christian moral
character and how is this manifested in moral actions? The
influential theologian James M. Gustafson probes these questions
and offers an analysis of the distinctively religious reasons of
the "heart and mind" which constitute the basis for a Christian
ethics.
When first published in 1961, "Treasure in Earthen Vessels" was hailed by H. Richard Niebuhr as "the first real sociology of the church." In this landmark work, James M. Gustafson examines the church as a human institution that must, and does, participate in the social structure of all human communities. His penetrating analysis remains an important contribution to the dialogue between the theological and social-scientific disciplines. Gustafson has written a new preface for this volume. 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.
James M. Gustafson has been a leading and formative figure in the field of Christian ethics over the past fifty years. His many contributions to theological ethics have helped to define and shape ethical thinking by Christians who reflect on great moral issues. Gustafson's work must be dealt with by all students in this discipline, and his perceptive insights have given clarity and guidance to the process of moral discernment. The essays collected here are ones that have had a significant impact on discussions and debates over recent decades. 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.
In this important work, expanded from his Princeton Warfield Lectures, Gustafson strongly urges Christians to take a hard look at their religious discourse and its relationship to all the other discourses--scientific, secular, philosophical--that inform our worldview. Pastors, theologians, and laypeople alike, he argues, regularly and unthinkingly accommodate their religious views to these other realms, or allow their religious views to be manipulated for other purposes. Gustafson sets out a helpful typology of relationships, from complete religious rejection of secular discourse to full accommodation. Citing contemporary thinkers and examples from a full range of fields, he challenges Christians to a greater self-consciousness and honesty about their religious commitments and doctrinal formulations. As relevant to the pulpit as to the podium and the poli- tical stump, Gustafson's brief, thoughtful volume calls all Christians to face the hard intellectual work that is necessary to forge an honest and publicly relevant faith today.
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