Augustinian And Ecclesial Christian Ethics

Author : D. Stephen Long
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1978702027
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustinian and Ecclesial Christian Ethics written by D. Stephen Long and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between the command to love one’s enemies and the use of violence and/or other coercive political means? This work examines this question by comparing and contrasting two important contemporary approaches to Christian ethics, neoAugustinian and the ecclesial or neoAnabaptist. It traces the complicated conversation that has taken place since John Howard Yoder took on Reinhold Niebuhr’s interpretation of the Anabaptists in the 1940’s. It consists of three parts. The first part traces the development of the Augustinian-Niebuhrian approach to ethics from Niebuhr through those who have advanced his work including Paul Ramsey, Timothy Jackson, Charles Mathewes, Eric Gregory, and Jennifer Herdt. It also examines the Augustinian ethics of Oliver O’Donovan, John Milbank and Nicholas Wolterstorff. Along with tracing the Augustinian approach and its trajectories through agapism, theology and the interpretation of Augustine, it identifies fifteen criticisms that this approach brings against the neoAnabaptists. The second part traces the origin of the ecclesial or neoAnabaptist approach, and then examines its relationship to, and criticism of, agapism, what theological doctrines are central and its interpretation of Augustine. Its purpose is primarily constructive by explaining the role that ecclesiology, Christology and eschatology have among the neoAnabaptists. The third part addresses the criticisms levied by Augustinians against the neoAnabaptists by drawing on the constructive theology in the second part. It intends to show where the Augustinian critics are correct, where they have missed key theological teachings, and where they misrepresent. It also assesses the summons to the nationalist project the Augustinians put to the neoAnabaptists. If this work is successful, this third part will not be defensive. It will instead illumine the reasons for the criticisms and suggest means by which the conversation that began between Yoder and Niebuhr can continue and possibly bear fruit for theological ethics in both its ecclesial and nationalist projects for generations to come.

Author : Samuel Wells
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111915572X
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing Christian Ethics written by Samuel Wells and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Christian Ethics 2e, now thoroughly revised and updated, offers an unparalleled introduction to the study of Christian Ethics, mapping and exploring all the major ethical approaches, and offering thoughtful insights into the complex moral challenges facing people today. This highly successful text has been thoughtfully updated, based on considerable feedback, to include increased material on Catholic perspectives, further case studies and the augmented use of introductions and summaries Uniquely redefines the field of Christian ethics along three strands: universal (ethics for anyone), subversive (ethics for the excluded), and ecclesial (ethics for the church) Encompasses Christian ethics in its entirety, offering students a substantial overview by re-mapping the field and exploring the differences in various ethical approaches Provides a successful balance between description, analysis, and critique Structured so that it can be used alongside a companion volume, Christian Ethics: An Introductory Reader, which further illustrates and amplifies the diversity of material and arguments explored here

Author : George Wolfgang Forell
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Christian Ethics: From the New Testament to Augustine written by George Wolfgang Forell and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing. This book was released on 1979 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin Gill
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Textbook of Christian Ethics written by Robin Gill and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1985 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, thoroughly revised edition of the classic textbook for the student of Christian ethics, setting out important contributions from modern theologians alongside classical texts from Augustine, Aquinas and Luther.

Author : Vigen Guroian
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725211300
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics after Christendom written by Vigen Guroian and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-08-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ethics after Christendom' proposes that the special moral challenge facing churches in post-Christian societies is to center Christian ethics ecclesially while also keeping it both evangelical and catholic. Siding with the diagnosis that North American Christendom has drawn to an end, Vigen Guroian provides an analysis of the present cultural context in which Christian ethics must now be done, discusses the role of churches after Christendom, and shows - through the application of ecclesial ethics to family, medicine, and ecology - how liturgy enriches and deepens the Christian ethical vision.

Author : Servais Pinckaers, OP
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567273822
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sources of Christian Ethics written by Servais Pinckaers, OP and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available for the first time in English, this work is widely recognised as a classic in the field of moral theology.

Author : Servais Pinckaers
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813208181
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sources of Christian Ethics written by Servais Pinckaers and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985 as Les sources de la morale chrétienne by University Press Fribourg, this work has been recognized by scholars worldwide as one of the most important books in the field of moral theology

Author : James Wetzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521405416
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustine and the Limits of Virtue written by James Wetzel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sophisticated analysis of Augustine's thought on virtue and the will makes a notable contribution to Augustine studies, and casts light both on the subject of 'moral luck' and on the relationship between theology and philosophy generally.

Author : Eric Gregory
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226307514
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and the Order of Love written by Eric Gregory and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustine—for all of his influence on Western culture and politics—was hardly a liberal. Drawing from theology, feminist theory, and political philosophy, Eric Gregory offers here a liberal ethics of citizenship, one less susceptible to anti-liberal critics because it is informed by the Augustinian tradition. The result is a book that expands Augustinian imaginations for liberalism and liberal imaginations for Augustinianism. Gregory examines a broad range of Augustine’s texts and their reception in different disciplines and identifies two classical themes which have analogues in secular political theory: love—and related notions of care, solidarity, and sympathy—and sin—as well as related notions of cruelty, evil, and narrow self-interest. From an Augustinian point of view, Gregory argues, love and sin constrain each other in ways that yield a distinctive vision of the limits and possibilities of politics. In providing a constructive argument for Christian participation in liberal democratic societies, Gregory advances efforts to revive a political theology in which love’s relation to justice is prominent. Politics and the Order of Love will provoke new conversations for those interested in Christian ethics, moral psychology, and the role of religion in a liberal society.

Author : Thomas Noakes-Duncan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567671542
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communities of Restoration written by Thomas Noakes-Duncan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By bringing together the insights of ecclesial ethics, an approach that emphasizes the distinctive nature of the church as the community that forms its mind and character after its reading of Scripture, with the theory and practice of restorative justice, a way of conceiving justice-making that emerged from the Mennonite-Anabaptist tradition, this book shows why a theological account of the theory and practice of restorative justice is fruitful for articulating and clarifying the witness of the church, especially when faced with conflict or wrongdoing. This can help extend the church's imagination as to how it might better become God's community of restoration as it reflects on the ways in which the justice of God is taking shape in its own community. “How does an ecclesial context shape the theological apprehension and praxis of justice?” This question orientates the book. In particular, it asks how, in view of its members having been admitted into God's restoring justice in Christ, the church might embody in the world this same justice of restoring right relationships. While Christian reflection on the nature of justice has tended to favour a judicial and retributive conception of justice, it will be argued that the biblical understanding of the justice of God is best understood as a saving, liberating, and restorative justice. It is this restorative conception that ought to guide the community that reads Scripture so that it might be embodied in life.