EVIL AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS
Graham Gordon
Oprawa:
MIĘKKA
Wydawca:
Cambridge University Press
Data premiery:
2000-11-16
ISBN:
9780521797450
Opis produktu
This book interconnects contemporary moral philosophy with recent work in New Testament scholarship.This book interconnects contemporary moral philosophy with recent work in New Testament scholarship and makes a powerful case for the rejection of humanism and naturalism explaining the moral obligation to struggle against evil by reference to the New Testaments cosmic narrative.This book interconnects contemporary moral philosophy with recent work in New Testament scholarship and makes a powerful case for the rejection of humanism and naturalism explaining the moral obligation to struggle against evil by reference to the New Testaments cosmic narrative.Genocide in Rwanda multiple murder at Denver or Dunblane the gruesome activities of serial killers what makes these great evils and why do they occur? In addressing such questions this book unusually interconnects contemporary moral philosophy with work in New Testament scholarship. The conclusions to emerge are surprising. Gordon Graham argues that the inability of modernist thought to account satisfactorily for evil and its occurrence should not lead us to embrace an eclectic postmodernism but to take seriously some unfashionable premodern conceptions Satan demonic possession spiritual powers cosmic battles. Precisely because it strives to observe the high standards of clarity and rigour that are the hallmarks of philosophy in the analytical tradition the book makes a powerful case for the rejection of humanism and naturalism and for explaining the moral obligation to struggle against evil by reference to the New Testaments cosmic narrative.Preface: 1. Christian ethics or moral theology: 2. The real Jesus: 3. Evil and action: 4. Forces of light and forces of darkness: 5. The transformation of evil: 6. The theology of hope: Bibliography. a sensitive creative and beautifully written account of Augustine Matthewes presents an account of evil that is in part metaphysical (suprapersonal) but conceived more as energy than substance this brilliant engaging and provocative book deserves a wide readership it will bring people to Augustine and thereby to their own situation afresh . Church Times the book is a major addition to the discussion of all the issues with which it concerns itself. It is also as always with Grahams work very well written. Conversations in Religion and TheologyData Publikacji: 2000-11-16
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