Hospitality as Holiness: Christian Witness Amid Moral DiversityWe live amid increasing ethical plurality and fragmentation while at the same time more and more questions of moral gravity confront us. Some of these questions are new, such as those around human cloning and genetics. Other questions that were previously settled have re-emerged, such as those around the place of religion in politics. Responses to such questions are diverse, numerous and often vehemently contested. Hospitality as Holiness seeks to address the underlying question facing the church within contemporary moral debates: how should Christians relate to their neighbours when ethical disputes arise? The problems the book examines centre on what the nature and basis of Christian moral thought and action is, and in the contemporary context, whether moral disputes may be resolved with those who do not share the same framework as Christians. Bretherton establishes a model - that of hospitality - for how Christians and non-Christians can relate to each other amid moral diversity. This book will appeal to those interested in the broad question of the relationship between reason, tradition, natural law and revelation in theology, and more specifically to those engaged with questions about plurality, tolerance and ethical conflict in Christian ethics and medical ethics. |
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... assessing relations between Christians and non-Christians. Crucially, the church is more than a tradition. The terms 'the Christian tradition' and 'the church' cannot be used as synonyms for each other. Rather, the term 'tradition' is ...
... assessing relations between Christians and non-Christians. Crucially, the church is more than a tradition. The terms 'the Christian tradition' and 'the church' cannot be used as synonyms for each other. Rather, the term 'tradition' is ...
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... assessment of MacIntyre and Grisez's response, I analyse why hospice care is an instance of Christian hospitality and why it constitutes the best Christian response to care for the suffering- dying. In short, the aim of this book is to ...
... assessment of MacIntyre and Grisez's response, I analyse why hospice care is an instance of Christian hospitality and why it constitutes the best Christian response to care for the suffering- dying. In short, the aim of this book is to ...
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... assessment of MacIntyre's first order theory of tradition-guided rationality and his second order meta-theory of how different traditions resolve disputes . Included in the discussion of his Alasdair MacIntyre's diagnosis of ...
... assessment of MacIntyre's first order theory of tradition-guided rationality and his second order meta-theory of how different traditions resolve disputes . Included in the discussion of his Alasdair MacIntyre's diagnosis of ...
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... assess MacIntyre's conception of practices, virtue and tradition. However, MacIntyre's use of 'narrative' will not feature in the discussion because it no longer plays any major role in his substantive theory. The shift came about ...
... assess MacIntyre's conception of practices, virtue and tradition. However, MacIntyre's use of 'narrative' will not feature in the discussion because it no longer plays any major role in his substantive theory. The shift came about ...
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... assessment of the Papal encyclical Veritatis Splendor MacIntyre states that the projects and goods we seek as individuals , communities and institutions , and what means there are for achieving these goods , will vary from culture to ...
... assessment of the Papal encyclical Veritatis Splendor MacIntyre states that the projects and goods we seek as individuals , communities and institutions , and what means there are for achieving these goods , will vary from culture to ...
Contents
Germain Grisez and the shared rationality | |
Christian ethics | |
ODonovan and MacIntyre compared | |
MacIntyres openness to theological | |
The practice of hospitality | |
Hospitality and the shape | |
Hospitality and tolerance contrasted | |
Summary | |
Hospitality hospice care and euthanasia | |
Christian hospitality | |
Conclusion | |
Bibliography | |
Local politics ecclesiology and resisting | |
Other editions - View all
Hospitality as Holiness: Christian Witness Amid Moral Diversity Luke Bretherton Limited preview - 2010 |
Hospitality as Holiness: Christian Witness Amid Moral Diversity Luke Bretherton Limited preview - 2006 |
Hospitality As Holiness: Christian Witness Amid Moral Diversity Luke Bretherton No preview available - 2017 |
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account of ethics Alasdair MacIntyre Aquinas argues assessment autonomy bear witness Biggar Cambridge University Press central Christian Ethics Christian Moral Christian tradition Christians and non-Christians church Cicely Saunders conception constitutes contemporary context contemporary moral contrast creation critique culture Dame death debate distinct ecclesiology Edinburgh Eerdmans embodied eschatological euthanasia example faith feast Finnis fulfilment Germain Grisez God’s Holy hospice care human Ibid incommensurability Jesus Christ John John Finnis justice Lactantius liberal London MacIntyre's MacIntyre's account medicine modern moral discourse moral knowledge N. T. Wright Natural Law Theory neighbours norms NPNF O'Donovan Oliver O'Donovan Oxford Palliative Care parable participate particular tradition patient Philosophical political practical reason practice of hospitality principles question reality relations between Christians relationship religion resolve ethical disputes response resurrection seek social practices society specific Spirit Stanley Hauerwas substantive suffering suffering-dying T&T Clark teleology theological Thomist thought and action tolerance trans truth understanding virtues