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Ethics in a Christian context.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Harper & Row [1963]Edition: [1st ed.]Description: 384 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Ethics in a Christian context.DDC classification:
  • 241 LEHC
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Christian faith and Christian ethics -- Christian thinking about ethics -- The church as the context of ethical reflection -- What God is doing in the world -- Christian ethics and a theology of Messianism -- The contextual character of Christian ethics -- Christian and philosophical thinking about ethics -- The search for the good -- The redirection of the search ; The powers of man ; On ethics and language ; On the boundary of ethics and Christian faith -- The insufficiency of philosophical ethics -- The question of conscience -- A critique of moral theology -- The decline and fall of conscience -- The ethical reality of conscience.
Summary: Part One describes just what the method of a Christian ethic as a theological discipline involves. Part Two extends the methodological description by contrasting theological ethics with the tradition of Western moral philosophy as represented by Aristotle, Kant, James, Weiss, Fromm and Brandt. .
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-370. Bibliographical footnotes).

Christian faith and Christian ethics -- Christian thinking about ethics -- The church as the context of ethical reflection -- What God is doing in the world -- Christian ethics and a theology of Messianism -- The contextual character of Christian ethics -- Christian and philosophical thinking about ethics -- The search for the good -- The redirection of the search ; The powers of man ; On ethics and language ; On the boundary of ethics and Christian faith -- The insufficiency of philosophical ethics -- The question of conscience -- A critique of moral theology -- The decline and fall of conscience -- The ethical reality of conscience.

Part One describes just what the method of a Christian ethic as a theological discipline involves. Part Two extends the methodological description by contrasting theological ethics with the tradition of Western moral philosophy as represented by Aristotle, Kant, James, Weiss, Fromm and Brandt. .

Also issued online.

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