Scripture, Tradition, and Reason in Christian Ethics: Normative Dimensions

✍ Scribed by Bharat Ranganathan, Derek Alan Woodard-Lehman

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 269
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How should we understand the relationship between Christian ethics and religious ethics? Among comparative, ethnographic, and normative methodologies? Between confessional and non-confessional orientations, or between theology and philosophy? This volume brings together emerging religious ethicists to engage the normative dimensions of Christian ethics. Focusing on scripture, tradition, and reason, the contributors to this volume argue for a vision of Christian ethics as religious ethics. Toward this end, they engage with scripture, interpretation, and religious practice; examine the putative divide between reason and tradition, autonomy and heteronomy; and offer proposals about the normative characterization of conceptual and practical issues in contemporary religious ethics. Collectively, the volume engages Christian thought to make an argument for the continuing relevance of normative methodologies in contemporary religious and theological ethics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
Normative Dimensions in Christian Ethics (Bharat Ranganathan, Derek Alan Woodard-Lehman)....Pages 1-14
Front Matter ....Pages 15-15
Christian Ethics, the Bible, and the Powers of Reading (Jamie Pitts)....Pages 17-43
Between Comparison and Normativity: Scriptural Reasoning and Religious Ethics (Gary Slater)....Pages 45-66
The Asceticism of Interpretation: John Cassian, Hermeneutical Askēsis, and Religious Ethics (Niki Kasumi Clements)....Pages 67-88
Front Matter ....Pages 89-89
Choosing to Become Who You Are: Authority and Freedom in Karl Barth’s Account of Moral Formation (Derek Alan Woodard-Lehman)....Pages 91-114
Natural Law, Freedom, and Tradition: A Catholic Perspective on Mediating Between Liberty and Fraternity (Jason A. Heron)....Pages 115-142
Schelling’s Pauline Anthropology (Martijn Buijs)....Pages 143-160
Front Matter ....Pages 161-161
Paul Ramsey’s Christian Deontology (Bharat Ranganathan)....Pages 163-185
Union with Christ: Participation as the Ground of Christian Ethics in Augustine and Reformed Augustinianisms (Autumn Alcott Ridenour)....Pages 187-206
Mothering Theo-Political Ideology: Natural Law, Empirical Facts, and Discourse Politics (Jon Kara Shields)....Pages 207-231
Back Matter ....Pages 233-259

✦ Subjects

Religious Studies; Christianity; Ethics; Philosophy of Religion