Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics – serie
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Karl Barth's Moral Thought
Inbunden, 2021
1333 kr
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Does theological ethics articulate moral norms with the assistance of moral philosophy? Or does it leave that task to moral philosophy alone while it describes a distinctively Christian way of acting or form of life? These questions lie at the very heart of theological ethics as a discipline. Karl …
Assuming Responsibility
Ecstatic Eudaimonism and the Call to Live Well
Inbunden, 2022
1540 kr
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Recent decades have witnessed an enthusiastic retrieval of eudaimonism, according to which the virtuous life is the happy life. But the critique launched by Kant - that eudaimonism is egoistic and distorts the character of duty or obligation - has persisted. Should I develop the virtues because …
Christianity and Liberal Society
Av Robert Song
Inbunden, 1997
3307 kr
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Liberalism forms the dominant political ideology of the modern world, but despite its pervasive influence, this is the first book-length treatment of liberal political thought from a Christian theological perspective. Song discusses the different aspects and interpretations of liberalism with …
The Hastening that Waits
Karl Barth's Ethics
Av Nigel Biggar
Häftad, 1995
1078 kr
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A fresh and up-to-date account of the ethical thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest theologians, Karl Barth. Dr Biggar recovers Barth's ethics from some widespread misunderstandings, and goes on to relate Barth's ideas to many of the central issues debated in contemporary Christian …
The Hastening that Waits
Karl Barth's Ethics
Av Nigel Biggar
Inbunden, 1993
968 kr
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This book offers a fresh and up-to-date account of the ethical thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest theologians: Karl Barth. In it, the author seeks to recover Barth's ethics from some widespread misunderstandings, and also presents a picture of it as a whole. Drawing on recently …
Christianity and Liberal Society
Av Robert Song
Häftad, 2006
1253 kr
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Liberalism forms the dominant political ideology of the modern world, but despite its pervasive influence, this is the first book-length treatment of liberal political thought from a Christian theological perspective. Song discusses the different aspects and interpretations of liberalism with …
The Moral Gap
Kantian Ethics, Human Limits, and God's Assistance
Av John E. Hare
Häftad, 1997
1243 kr
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This book is about the gap between the moral demand on us and our natural capacities to meet it. John Hare starts with Kants statement of the moral demand and his acknowledgement of this gap. Hare then analyses Kants use of the resources of the Christian tradition to make sense of this gap, …
Politics, Justice, and War
Christian Governance and the Ethics of Warfare
Inbunden, 2015
1718 kr
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The just war ethic emerges from an affirmative response to the basic question of whether people may sometimes permissibly intend to kill other people. In Politics, Justice, and War, Joseph E. Capizzi clarifies the meaning and coherence of the 'just war' approach, to the use of force in the context …
Ethics at the Beginning of Life
A phenomenological critique
Häftad, 2015
803 kr
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Many of the most controversial moral decisions we face hinge upon competing descriptions of life, and never is this truer than at the beginning of life. James Mumford draws upon phenomenology (a branch of continental philosophy) to question the descriptive adequacy, the essential 'purchase upon …
Christian Character Formation
Lutheran Studies of the Law, Anthropology, Worship, and Virtue
Inbunden, 2019
1974 kr
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Christian Character Formation investigates worship and formation in view of Christian anthropology, particularly union with Christ. Traditions which value justification by faith wrestle to some degree with how to describe and encourage ethical formation when salvation and righteousness are …
Persons
The Difference between `Someone' and `Something'
Häftad, 2017
535 kr
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An examination and defence of the concept of personality, long central to Western moral culture but now increasingly under attack, by a leading European philosopher. Persons takes issue with major contemporary philosophers, especially in the English-speaking world (such as Parfit and Singer), who …
God's Command
Av John E. Hare
Häftad, 2018
867 kr
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This work focuses on divine command, and in particular the theory that what makes something obligatory is that God commands it, and what makes something wrong is that God commands us not to do it. Focusing on the Abrahamic faiths, eminent scholar John E. Hare explains that two experiences have had …
Freedom in Response
Lutheran Ethics: Sources and Controversies
Av Oswald Bayer
Inbunden, 2007
3452 kr
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The leitmotif of Freedom in Response, as the title suggests, is a reasoned exposition of the nature of freedom, as it is presented in the Bible and developed by such later theologians as Martin Luther. Oswald Bayer considers Luther's teachings on pastoral care, marriage, and the three estates, …
Political Worship
Ethics for Christian Citizens
Av Bernd Wannenwetsch, Bernd Wannenwetsch
Inbunden, 2004
2260 kr
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How does Christian ethics begin? This pioneering study explores the grammar of the Christian life as it is embodied and learned in worship as the formative experience of the 'fellow citizens of God's people'. The book presents the first in-depth theological investigation of the phenomenon of …
The Family in Christian Social and Political Thought
Av Brent Waters
Inbunden, 2007
3269 kr
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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 …
Double-Effect Reasoning
Doing Good and Avoiding Evil
Inbunden, 2006
2994 kr
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T. A. Cavanaugh defends double-effect reasoning (DER), also known as the principle of double effect. DER plays a role in anti-consequentialist ethics (such as deontology), in hard cases in which one cannot realize a good without also causing a foreseen, but not intended, bad effect (for example, …
Persons
The Difference between `Someone' and `Something'
Inbunden, 2006
3576 kr
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An examination and defence of the concept of personality, long central to Western moral culture but now increasingly under attack, by a leading European philosopher. It takes issue with major contemporary philosophers, especially in the English-speaking world (such as Parfit and Singer), who have …
Approaching the End
A Theological Exploration of Death and Dying
Inbunden, 2007
2215 kr
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David Albert Jones considers two basic questions: how can we live well in the face of death? and when, if ever, is it legitimate deliberately to bring human life to an end? He focuses upon the distinct theological approaches to death shown by four outstanding Christian thinkers: Ambrose of Milan, …
Political Worship
Häftad, 2009
1253 kr
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How does Christian ethics begin? This pioneering study explores the grammar of the Christian life as it is embodied and learned in worship as the formative experience of the 'fellow citizens of God's people'. The book presents the first in-depth theological investigation of the phenomenon of …
God's Command
Av John E. Hare
Inbunden, 2015
1896 kr
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This work focuses on divine command, and in particular the theory that what makes something obligatory is that God commands it, and what makes something wrong is that God commands us not to do it. Focusing on the Abrahamic faiths, eminent scholar John E. Hare explains that two experiences have had …
Political Affections
Civic Participation and Moral Theology
Inbunden, 2012
2948 kr
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What is the nature of affections such as joy, compassion, sorrow, and shame and what role do they play in politics? While political experience is replete with affectivity, the affective dimension of political experience has typically been under-conceptualised in political theory. Joshua Hordern …
Ethics at the Beginning of Life
A phenomenological critique
Inbunden, 2013
2217 kr
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Many of the most controversial moral decisions we face hinge upon competing descriptions of life, and never is this truer than at the beginning of life. James Mumford draws upon phenomenology (a branch of continental philosophy) to question the descriptive adequacy, the essential 'purchase upon …
