A Raft That Floats: Experience, Tradition, and Sciences in Gustafson's Theocentric Ethics

Abstract. Although James Gustafson's use of the Christian Bible and tradition is not fully displayed in the essays published here, Bible and tradition are a crucial part of a composite rationale, which includes experience and the sciences, for his theocentric ethics. Gustafson's theocentri...

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1. VerfasserIn: Beckley, Harlan 1943- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 1995
In: Zygon
Jahr: 1995, Band: 30, Heft: 2, Seiten: 201-211
weitere Schlagwörter:B Experience
B Tradition
B Sciences
B theocentric ethics
B James M. Gustafson
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract. Although James Gustafson's use of the Christian Bible and tradition is not fully displayed in the essays published here, Bible and tradition are a crucial part of a composite rationale, which includes experience and the sciences, for his theocentric ethics. Gustafson's theocentric ethics employs the sciences to back, inform, and correct the Christian tradition and offers grounds for respecting the natural piety and morality of “nonreligious” persons while explaining and justifying why Christians draw on major themes and metaphors from their tradition that should penetrate their piety and morality. His proposal should reorient the thinking of theological ethics more than it has thus far.
ISSN:1467-9744
Enthält:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1995.tb00064.x