Christian Ethics

Christian Ethics
Author: Norman L. Geisler
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0801038790

This update of a classic text evaluates contemporary ethical options and pressing issues of the day from a biblical perspective.

Christianity and Human Rights

Christianity and Human Rights
Author: John Witte, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2010-12-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1139494112

Combining Jewish, Greek, and Roman teachings with the radical new teachings of Christ and St. Paul, Christianity helped to cultivate the cardinal ideas of dignity, equality, liberty and democracy that ground the modern human rights paradigm. Christianity also helped shape the law of public, private, penal, and procedural rights that anchor modern legal systems in the West and beyond. This collection of essays explores these Christian contributions to human rights through the perspectives of jurisprudence, theology, philosophy and history, and Christian contributions to the special rights claims of women, children, nature and the environment. The authors also address the church's own problems and failings with maintaining human rights ideals. With contributions from leading scholars, including a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, this book provides an authoritative treatment of how Christianity shaped human rights in the past, and how Christianity and human rights continue to challenge each other in modern times.

Rights and Christian Ethics

Rights and Christian Ethics
Author: Kieran Cronin
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1992
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521418898

Kieran Cronin helps philosophers and theologians to understand each other's perspectives on rights, making this book a significant contribution to Christian ethics and moral philosophy.

The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics

The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics
Author: Robin Gill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2012
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107000076

Twenty essays providing an authoritative introduction to Christian ethics, addressing issues such as war, social justice, ecology, sexuality and medicine.

Christian Ethics (Revised Edition)

Christian Ethics (Revised Edition)
Author: Wayne Grudem
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 1648
Release: 2024-09-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433590867

What Does the Bible Teach about How to Live in Today's World? How should Christians live when the surrounding culture is increasingly hostile to Christian moral values? Granted, the Bible is our guide—but how can we know if we are interpreting it rightly with regard to ethical questions about wealth and poverty, marriage and divorce, birth control, abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship, and dozens of other issues? And on a very practical level, how can we know God's will in the ordinary decisions of life? To address questions like these, Wayne Grudem, author of the bestselling book Systematic Theology, draws on 40 years of teaching classes in ethics to write this wide-ranging introduction to biblical moral reasoning, organized according to the structure of the Ten Commandments. He issues a challenging call for Christians to live lives of personal holiness and offers a vision of the Christian life that is full of joy and blessing through living each day in a way that is pleasing to God. Written by Wayne Grudem: Bestselling author of Systematic Theology and the What the Bible Says About series Biblical and Applicable: Teaches readers how to protect 7 central tenets of God's law: God's honor, human authority, life, marriage, property, truth, and purity of heart Accessible: An ideal textbook for Christian college and seminary ethics classes, with straightforward language and a bibliography for the topic at the end of each chapter Replaces ISBN 978-1-4335-4965-6

Freedom and Purpose

Freedom and Purpose
Author: Robert Gascoigne
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809142217

"Freedom and Purpose is a contemporary introduction to Christian ethics in the Roman Catholic tradition. Christian ethics is presented as a distinctive contribution to a universally human task, grounded in the love of God revealed in Christ and deriving its distinct contours and motivation from the shape of Christian revelation. [from back cover]

What's Wrong with Rights?

What's Wrong with Rights?
Author: Nigel Biggar
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2020
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198861974

What's Wrong with Rights? argues that contemporary rights-talk obscures the importance civic virtue, military effectiveness and the democratic law legitimacy. It draws upon legal and moral philosophy, moral theology, and court judgments. It spans discussions from medieval Christendom to contemporary debates about justified killing.

Can Ethics Be Christian?

Can Ethics Be Christian?
Author: James M. Gustafson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 1975
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0226311023

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. Professor Gustafson grounds his discussion in a concrete example of moral conduct which deeply impressed him. The incident—narrated in detail at the start and referred to throughout—concerns a nonreligious colleague who came to the aid of an intoxicated soldier. Although seemingly trivial, this incident, in the author's view, approximates the normal sorts of experiences in which individuals have to make moral decisions every day; it becomes a touchstone to investigate the logical, social, and religious elements in moral decision making.

Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World

Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World
Author: Grace Y. Kao
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2011-03-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1589017609

In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without “distinction of any kind,” possesses a set of morally authoritative rights and fundamental freedoms that ought to be socially guaranteed. Since that time, human rights have arguably become the cross-cultural moral concept and evaluative tool to measure the performance—and even legitimacy—of domestic regimes. Yet questions remain that challenge their universal validity and theoretical bases. Some theorists are ”maximalist” in their insistence that human rights must be grounded religiously, while an opposing camp attempts to justify these rights in “minimalist” fashion without any necessary recourse to religion, metaphysics, or essentialism. In Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World, Grace Kao critically examines the strengths and weaknesses of these contending interpretations while also exploring the political liberalism of John Rawls and the Capability Approach as proposed by economist Amartya Sen and philosopher Martha Nussbaum. By retrieving insights from a variety of approaches, Kao defends an account of human rights that straddles the minimalist–maximalist divide, one that links human rights to a conception of our common humanity and to the notion that ethical realism gives the most satisfying account of our commitment to the equal moral worth of all human beings.

Christian Social Ethics

Christian Social Ethics
Author: Glennon, Fred
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2021-03-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608338762

"A college-level introductory text in Christian social ethics that combines theory, cases, and analysis"--