Christian Ethics In Secular Cultures

Author : Thomas K. Johnson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532654863
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Ethics in Secular Cultures written by Thomas K. Johnson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central question in Christian ethics is the relationship between the moral principles we should follow within the Christian community and the ethics followed in the secular societies in which we live. Our dilemma is that we have received a revelation of God’s moral will in the Bible and in creation which must shape the identity of believers over against unbelieving cultures, while our neighbors follow the ethics of other world views which concern us deeply. Remember the Holocaust, where the ethics of a secular ideology wreaked destruction in an entire society. How should we, as Christians whom God has called to a distinct identity, participate in the moral considerations that will shape our cultures and communicate some of our convictions in a way that brings moral light into our worlds? Johnson offers the insight gained by 20 years of teaching ethics in secular universities in Europe and North America. First he addresses questions of sex, marriage, and family; then questions of work and economics; and finally theological and philosophical foundations.

Author : Thomas K. Johnson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 166674445X
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Ethics in Secular Cultures, Volume 2 written by Thomas K. Johnson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World of Theology Series Thomas K. Johnson: The First Step in Missions Training: How our Neighbors are Wrestling with God's General Revelation Thomas K. Johnson: Christian Ethics in Secular Cultures David Parker: Discerning the Obedience of Faith: A Short Histo- ry of the World Evangelical Alliance Theological Commission Thomas Schirrmacher (Ed.): William Carey: Theologian - Lin- guist - Social Reformer Thomas Schirrmacher: Advocate of Love - Martin Bucer as Theologian and Pastor Thomas Schirrmacher: Culture of Shame / Culture of Guilt Thomas Schirrmacher: The Koran and the Bible Thomas Schirrmacher (ed.): The Humanisation of Slavery in the Old Testament Jim Harries: New Foundations for Appreciating Africa: Beyond Religious and Secular Deceptions Thomas Schirrmacher: Missio Dei - God's Missional Nature Thomas Schirrmacher: Biblical Foundations for 21st Century World Mission

Author : Hans O. Tiefel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666765481
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Ethics Introduced written by Hans O. Tiefel and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Ethics Introduced asks why humans count as ends in themselves. The biblical answer was/is that humans have standing—inherent worth—as creatures in the image of God. This traditional answer yielded to seventeenth and eighteenth century enlightenment secularism. To these secularists, human reason promised to be a surer and more peaceable foundation for a just culture than religion. Human rationality—the light of human reason—would enlighten and improve the human condition. Two world wars and more realistic trends in new social sciences created not just awareness of human irrationality but fostered skepticism of sound foundations for morality and justice. It seemed that both traditional religion and enlightened reason fell short of what had been hoped. And the cause of failure may not lie in traditional religion or in human irrationality. Rather, the problem might lie in human conduct. Specifically, it may lie in the human inclination to favor self over others, of the “me” outranking the “we.” Christian responses to the human failure to live a moral and just life recognize the persistence of immoral conduct, acknowledge it in regard to oneself, ask for forgiveness, and make amends and peace with God and with those wronged.

Author : Philip Edgcumbe Hughes
Publisher : Baker Publishing Group (MI)
ISBN 13 : 9780801042676
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Ethics in Secular Society written by Philip Edgcumbe Hughes and published by Baker Publishing Group (MI). This book was released on 1983 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dennis P. Hollinger
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 080102563X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing the Good written by Dennis P. Hollinger and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intelligent discussion of the foundations and methods in ethics and ways to apply a Christian worldview to our secular culture.

Author : Andrew Skotnicki
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 140943575X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Judgment written by Andrew Skotnicki and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a culture obsessed with law, judgment and violence, this book challenges Christians to remember that Jesus urged his followers to judge no one, bring harm upon no one, and follow no law save the law of altruistic love. It traces Christian history first to show that Christians of an earlier age took very seriously the gospel injunctions against punitive legal judgment and then how the advent of formal legal codes and philosophical dualism undermined that perspective to create a division between a private Christian spirituality and a public morality of order and legally sanctioned violence.

Author : David Neville
Publisher : ATF Press
ISBN 13 : 9781920691165
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Freedom written by David Neville and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Christians, like Christians in many socities, live in a pluralistic culture. This makes the issues of faith, freedom and their interelationship all the more critical. In a pluralist context, Christian faith and freedom must be expressed and embodied in a coherent rather than discordant way. The authors of these reflections on key ethical concerns represent the Anabaptist, Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic and Uniting Church traditions, yet there is a hamrony within this plurality of theological and ecclesiological voices. Contributors include: John Howard Yoder, Charles Birch, Stanley Hauerwas, and Thorwald Lorenzen.

Author : William M. Sullivan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139466593
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Globalization of Ethics written by William M. Sullivan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-23 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sullivan and Kymlicka seek to provide an alternative to post-9/11 pessimism about the ability of serious ethical dialogue to resolve disagreements and conflict across national, religious, and cultural differences. It begins by acknowledging the gravity of the problem: on our tightly interconnected planet, entire populations look for moral guidance to a variety of religious and cultural traditions, and these often stiffen, rather than soften, opposing moral perceptions. How, then, to set minimal standards for the treatment of persons while developing moral bases for coexistence and cooperation across different ethical traditions? The Globalization of Ethics argues for a tempered optimism in approaching these questions. Its distinguished contributors report on some of the most globally influential traditions of ethical thought in order to identify the resources within each tradition for working toward consensus and accommodation among the ethical traditions that shape the contemporary world.

Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674986911
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Secular Age written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Author : Shin Chiba
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Ethics in Ecumenical Context written by Shin Chiba and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: