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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Christian ethics."”.
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Bound to Shame: Sexual Addiction and Christian Ethics
… damage. It is suggested that at the heart of the Christian gospel is a severe warning that to attempt to hide and deny a distorted and painful perception of oneself presents a particularly deadly spiritual condition. To view sex addicts as shame-bound people poses the question as to whether the …
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The Gun in US American Life: An Ethnographic Christian Ethics
… and redress. This study aims to develop a Christian ethics of this issue.</p><p>Following the ethnographic turn in Christian theology and ethics, I develop my proposals out of two years of fieldwork carried out with evangelical Christian handgun owners in Durham, North Carolina and its …
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We Are Who We Think We Were: Updating the Role of Historiography in Christian Ethics
<p>Christian ethicists often ground their claims on historical precedent. Unfortunately, this precedent is "accessed" using historical theories and methods taken ad hoc from a wider socio-historical <em>Geist</em> or are derived from their confessional commitments to their theological traditions. …
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Overconsumption, Animal Welfare, and Christian Ethics: Conflicting Values and the Urgent Challenges of Our Time
Η παρούσα εργασία εξετάζει την πολλαπλή επιρροή που έχει στην ευζωία των ζώων ο υπερκαταναλωτισμός που διακατέχει την σύγχρονη ανθρώπινη κοινωνία, και τους τρόπους με τους οποίους αυτό έρχεται σε αντίθεση με τη Χριστιανική Ηθική αναφορικά με τη μεταχείριση των ζώων. Μελετώνται οι ανωτέρω …
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Using scripture in Christian ethics: Interacting with Richard Hays's "The Moral Vision of the New Testament"
… conversation with Hays, for using Scripture in ethics. The first chapter of the dissertation introduces the problem and suggests The Moral Vision as an ethical text which has garnered sufficient accolades as to make it worthy of examination. Chapter 2 seeks to describe in detail the major lines …
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Eschatological Paradigm and Moral Theory in Contemporary Christian Ethics: Stephen Charles Mott and Thomas W. Ogletree
… eschatology introduces a paradigm for Christian ethics that engenders significant divergence among Christian ethicists in the way its application influences moral theory. These divergences indicate the need to clarify the issues revolving around its methodological application in order …
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An un-African thing? Same-sex relationships among South African Sangomas, Christian ethics and the discourse on African (protective) homophobia
… study is rooted within Systematic Theology and Ethics as it alludes how both Christian and African ethics promotes gender diversity. African Christian ethics, this study draws from the work of various theologians such as Samuel Waje Kunhiyop, “African Christian Ethics”, M.F. Murove, “African …
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Moral Implications of Darwinian Evolution for Human Reference Based in Christian Ethics: a Critical Analysis and Response to the "Moral Individualism" of James Rachels
… has catastrophic implications for traditional Christian ethics.</p> <p><em>The purpose.</em> The purpose of this dissertation is to explore and evaluate the question of whether or not protology affects ethics. In particular, I propose to distill the implications of evolutionary views of origins …
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History of the theological method of Reinhold Niebuhr : a study of the relationship between past and contemporary events in Niebuhr's theological method
… secular opinion alike, as the most influential Christian social ethicist of the twentieth century. For over fifty years he grappled with the issues which confronted his native America at a time when that nation was undergoing the most dramatic period of change in its history. During this time …
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Christian virtue in a West African context : a study of the interaction and synthesis of the methodist and Fanti moral traditions as a model for the contextualisation of Christian Ethics
… of Alasdair MacIntyre’s tradition based model of ethics as a heuristic tool in analysing the contextualisation of Christian ethics. Ethical contextualisation is thus understood as the interaction and synthesis of particular Christian moral traditions with the moral traditions they encountered in …
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The Ethics of Vision and Black Theology and Experience
<p>To this day, philosophical ethics and dominant discussions in Christian ethics have paid insufficient attention to how vision shapes the moral life. Too much focus is given to moral decision-making and action, while too little focus is given to the way vision and patterns of attentiveness ground …
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When War is Our Daily Bread: Congo, Theology, and the Ethics of Contemporary Conflict
… dissertation approaches the problem of war in Christian ethics through the lens of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Drawing upon memoirs, letters, sermons, and fieldwork, it shifts the focus of moral inquiry from theoretical positions on war (e.g., just war theory and pacifism) to the domain …
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Christianity, the Duty to Assist Others, and Supererogation
… over the past few decades. In light of this, Christian ethicists must ask the question, "Are supererogatory actions possible in Christian ethics?" This question must be broken down into two questions to account for the central role God plays in Christian ethics. The first question is, "Is it …
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Christian Kinship: Relatedness in Christian Practice and Moral Thought
… life, and yet kinship has been neglected in Christian ethics, as well as moral philosophy and bioethics. Attention has been paid in these disciplines to the ethics of ‘family,’ but little regard has been paid to the fact that kinship is not a given, but is culturally contingent. The thesis …
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Gay Christian? A Progressive Covenantal Response to David Gushee, James Brownson, and Matthew Vines
… Bible intratextually and the best grounding for Christian sexual ethics. Chapter 1 introduces the issues surrounding the same-sex marriage debate. The chapter provides a brief overview of this dissertation’s main conversation partners—Brownson, Gushee, and Vines. This chapter provides a brief …
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The Role of Christian Faith in Public Moral Discourse: A Comparison of Selected Works from H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Stanley Hauerwas, and Richard A. McCormick
… asks, "What is the proper role of the Christian and the Christian community in the ethical arena of a pluralistic society?" The inherently social nature of human beings means that all ethical judgments regarding right and wrong and the good of the human person have social implications. …
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Ethics as praxis: the convergence of Michel Henry’s phenomenology of life with christianity
… that Henry’s phenomenology of life encounters Christianity. In this context, it is not only the subjectivity of the living (les vivants) that has to be investigated, but also its foundation in absolute Life (vie absolue), or God. The human condition, therefore, can be described by Henry in …
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The problem of the permanent validity of the ethical teachings of Jesus of Nazareth
<p>The stream of Christianity has never run its course through a generation of believers in which has not been found someone who urged the application of Jesus teachings to the social perplexities of the day. The persistence of this attitude has not, however, been a guarantee of consistency either …
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“A Christian World Order:” Protestants, Democracy and Christian Aid to Germany, 1945-1961
… Protestants aimed to create a universalist “Christian World Order” based on liberal democracy and Christian ethics. Only this new order, they argued, could supersede nationalist and materialist agendas and restore world peace. By rhetorically depicting Nazi and Communist "totalitarianism" as …
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Whatever Is Done in Secret: A Christian Moral Analysis of a Right to Privacy for a Digital Age
… of the human rights discussion within the Christian moral tradition and outlines the project, including the intricate relationship of ethics to theology and philosophy. Chapter 2 is a critical survey of the nature of privacy in moral discourse and the various paradigms often employed to …
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