The freedom of a Christian ethicist: the future of a Reformation legacy
What is the significance of the Protestant Reformation for Christian ethical thinking and action? Can core Protestant commitments and claims still provide for compelling and viable accounts of Christian living. This collection of essays by leading international scholars explores the relevance of the...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomsbury International Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2016
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| Reviews: | The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist: The Future of a Reformation Legacy, Brian Brock and Michael Mawson (eds.), Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016 (ISBN 978-0567665959), xii + 206 pp., hb £65 (2016) (Hurst, Daniel J.)
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| Series/Journal: | T & T Clark theology
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christian ethics
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Collection of essays
B Reformation B Christian Ethics |
| Summary: | What is the significance of the Protestant Reformation for Christian ethical thinking and action? Can core Protestant commitments and claims still provide for compelling and viable accounts of Christian living. This collection of essays by leading international scholars explores the relevance of the Protestant Reformation and its legacy for contemporary Christian ethics Introduction / Michael Mawson -- Citizens of heaven / Stanley Hauerwas -- Karl Barth and the plight of Protestant ethics / Gerald McKenny -- The messianic contours of evangelical ethics / Hans G. Ulrich -- Living in the wake of God's acts: Luther's Mary as key to Barth's command / Brian Brock -- How to do or not do Protestant ethics / Stanley Hauerwas -- Anabaptist ethics after Yoder: accepting the limits on the freedom of a Christian ethicist / Paul Martens -- The politics of Jesus and the ethics of Christ: why the differences between Yoder and Bonhoeffer matter / Michael Mawson -- 'We, as to our own particulars ... ': conscience and vocation in Quaker tradition / Rachel Muers -- Sleepers wake!: Eudaimonism, obligation and the call to responsibility / Jennifer A. Herdt -- On what we lost when (or if) we lost the saints / Michael Banner |
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| Item Description: | "The essays in this volume are revised versions of papers that were presented at the conference 'The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist,' which took place at King's College of Aberdeen University in October 2014."--Page vii Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and indexes |
| ISBN: | 056766595X |