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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Ethics in Religion"”.
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Factors Related to Clergy Sexual Misconduct
… creates credibility, marital, family, and financial problems in the general church. The purpose of this study was to determine, through a survey research methodology, personality and situational factors in the lives of active clergy that may be related to clergy sexual misconduct.</p> …
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Business Ethics and Global Age Cosmopolitanism
<p>This dissertation is a study of business ethics and business education. It is particularly focused on the Business Administration degree and the business ethics literature, while also considering university students, professors, and business practitioners. The key problem I address is how to …
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Eschatological Paradigm and Moral Theory in Contemporary Christian Ethics: Stephen Charles Mott and Thomas W. Ogletree
<p>Twentieth-century re-interpreted 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 …
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The Development of a Church-Based Seminar on the Impact of Historicist Eschatology upon Seventh-day Adventist Marital Life
<p><em>Problem.</em> The reading of Eph 5:25-27 shows that Christ will marry the church in a state of holiness and blamelessness. Family life on earth must follow the model of the love of Jesus for the church. But there are no guides, seminars, or studies that combine marital life and preparation …
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Just Water: A Feminist Catholic Response to the Commodification of Water
… ecological ethic today that does not focus sustained attention to our worldwide water crisis is inadequate, for it fails to engage one of today's core social justice violations and neglects to offer any moral guidance for one of the human family's most pressing challenges. A responsible Catholic …
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Roman Catholic Masculinities: A Korean Roman Catholic Ethical Perspective
<p>Over the last thirty or so years, feminist scholars have been highly critical of the ways that gender roles have been understood, particularly in religious institutions, including Roman Catholicism. Although some changes have been made (e.g., women are able to take on roles that were prohibited …
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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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An Overarching Defense of Kant's Idea of the Highest Good
<p>The main goal of this dissertation is to develop an overarching defense of Kant's idea of the highest good, against the criticisms pointed out in the English-speaking world, within the framework of the so-called "Beck-Silber controversy."</p><p>As it is known, since the second half of the last …
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Rethinking Nation-Building: A Christian Socio-Ethical and Theo-Political Task for Appropriating the Common Good
<p>nation-building as a coomon good</p>
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The Struggle for Acceptance: Continued Resistance to Female Ministers in Rural Holston Conference.
<p>This study was conducted to determine if ordained women clergy experience resistance or lack of receptivity to their appointments. If so, does the resistance more readily occur with churches in a rural area? The focus of the study was women clergy of the Holston Conference of the United …
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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
… James Rachels's efforts to prove that Darwin's theory of evolution 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, …
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Toward the Development of Roman Catholic Teaching About Contraception in Light of the Experience of South Korean Catholic Women
<p>In recent decades, the morality of artificial contraception has been hotly debated in the Roman Catholic Church. Many theologians and ethicists have challenged the hierarchical church teachings in the last fifty years. The opening chapter of the dissertation reviews Catholic Church teachings on …
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DISABILITY, GENDER, AND SOCIO-RELIGIOUS STIGMA IN THE BOOK OF MARGERY KEMPE
<p>This thesis examines the fifteenth-century auto-hagiographical narrative of Margery Kempe’s adult life, <em>The Book of Margery Kempe.</em> Margery Kempe lived ca. 1373–ca. 1440 in Bishop’s Lynn, England and dictated the earliest surviving autobiography written in English. Margery recounts her …
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The Ethical Theory of Enrique Dussel: An Investigation of Violence and Coercion in his Three Foundational Principles
<p>Problem</p> <p>Enrique Dussel's ethics proposes addressing global inequality through legitimate coercion as a means of liberating the poor, contrasting it with the violence of the current system. However, the inclusion of life-threatening acts, such as armed revolution, as coercion raises …
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Mission as Virtuous Practice: A Theology Of Mission Through the Lens of Virtue Ethics
<p>This work uses theological virtue ethics as a guide both for critiquing various models of Christian mission and for constructing a model of mission that adequately addresses these criticisms. The first section of the dissertation (chapters one, two, and three) is devoted to an assessment of …
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Natural Law, the Object of the Act, and Double Effect: Moral Methodology for Catholic Health Care Ethics
… methodological connection between Vatican teaching and the United States Bishops’ <em>Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services</em>. The thesis of the dissertation explains the systematic connection between Natural Law, the Moral Object of the Act, and the Principle of …
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The Normative Approach of the Catholic Tradition in the Ethical and Religious Directives for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas Regarding Medical Technology
… engages the Catholic Tradition enunciated in the <em>Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services</em> to provide a normative approach for resolving ethical dilemmas regarding pivotal breakthroughs in medical technology.</p> <p>This normative ethical approach has two …
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Mia San Mia: Professional Club Soccer, Religion, and Social Ethics
… of soccer fans around the world, soccer is their religion. This dissertation marks the first extended examination of what religious soccer is, what it looks like in practice, and how it impacts the lives of fans in the context of professional club soccer. It provides a framework for non-fans to …
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