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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
J Philip Wogaman |
| ISBN: | 9780664234096 0664234097 |
| OCLC Number: | 657080526 |
| Description: | xv, 376 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The legacies of Christian ethics. The biblical legacy of Christian ethics -- Philosophical legacies -- The ethics of early Christianity. The formative years -- Seminal thinkers and transitions -- The moral vision of Saint Augustine -- Medieval Christianity. Monastic and mystical contributions -- The confessional -- The Thomistic synthesis -- Late medieval forerunners -- The era of Reformation and Enlightenment. The Reformers : Luther and Calvin -- Catholic humanism and Counter-Reformation -- The radical Reformation -- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rationalism and evangelicalism. Rationalism and revival in the eighteenth century -- Nineteenth-century philosophical and Christian ethics -- Nineteenth-century slavery and feminist controversies -- Christian ethics in the twentieth century. The social gospel movement -- The social encyclicals -- Formative Christian moral thinkers -- The Vatican II watershed -- Orthodox Christian ethics -- Liberation theology -- Ecumenical social ethics -- Christian ethics in the third millennium. Changed realities -- Unresolved issues -- Concluding reflections. |
| Responsibility: | J. Philip Wogaman. |
Abstract:
An updated survey of Christian ethics which addresses major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present; and discusses a broad range of topics, including the biblical and philosophical legacies of Christian ethics and ethics through the early, medieval, Reformation, Enlightenment, and modern eras.
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