Virtues & Practices in Christian Tradition - Christian Ethics after MacIntyre

Publisher: Trinity Press International
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 390
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Contributors to Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition use Alasdair MacIntyre’s work as a methodological guide for doing ethics in the Christian tradition. These essays are grouped in three sections: descriptions of MacIntyre’s approach to ethics as developed in After Virtue, reflections on the moral issues that come to the fore when viewing the Christian tradition from a MacIntyrean perspective, and selected essays on family, homosexuality, abortion, pacifism, feminism, business ethics, medical ethics, and economic justice.

✦ Table of Contents

The master argument of MacIntyre's After virtue / Brad J. Kallenberg -- Using MacIntyre's method in Christian ethics / Nancey Murphy -- Positioning MacIntyre within Christian ethics / Brad J. Kallenberg -- The practice of community formation / James Wm. McClendon, Jr. -- Scripture, exegesis, and discernment in Christian ethics / Stephen E. Fowl and L. Gregory Jones -- Practicing the rule of Christ / John Howard Yoder -- Reconceiving practice in theological inquiry and education / Craig Dykstra -- From family values to family virtues / Rodney Clapp -- Character and conversation in the homosexuality debate. Awaiting the redemption of our bodies / Richard B. Hays ; Debate and discernment, Scripture and the Spirit / Luke Timothy Johnson -- Abortion theologically understood / Stanley Hauerwas -- Pacifism as a vocation / Grady Scott Davis -- After racism / Tammy Williams -- Feminism, political philosophy, and the narrative ethics of Jean Bethke Elshtain / Mark Thiessen Nation -- Business ethics : kindred spirit or idolatry? / Michael Goldberg -- Images of the healer / William F. May -- Christian economy / D. Stephen Long -- Retrospect : on cultivating moral taste / Brad J. Kallenberg

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