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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... embodied and the dominant, incoherent patterns of the contemporary context resisted. By doing so, communities of resistance engage in a form of local politics that is just and rational. This type of local politics allows for the kind of ...
... embodied and the dominant, incoherent patterns of the contemporary context resisted. By doing so, communities of resistance engage in a form of local politics that is just and rational. This type of local politics allows for the kind of ...
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... embody ideals of liberty and justice'.1a He condemns its democratic aspects as a charade.15 For MacIntyre , the societies of advanced Western modernity are run by ' oligarchies disguised as liberal democracies'.16 The range of what is ...
... embody ideals of liberty and justice'.1a He condemns its democratic aspects as a charade.15 For MacIntyre , the societies of advanced Western modernity are run by ' oligarchies disguised as liberal democracies'.16 The range of what is ...
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... liberalism, while initially rejecting the claims of any overriding theory of the good, does in fact come to embody just such a theory.27 Hence, although liberalism seems to contradict MacIntyre's conception of rationality.
... liberalism, while initially rejecting the claims of any overriding theory of the good, does in fact come to embody just such a theory.27 Hence, although liberalism seems to contradict MacIntyre's conception of rationality.
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... embody 'bureaucratic rationality'. As defined by Weber, this rationality involves being engaged in a competitive struggle for scarce resources, both human and non-human, and in seeking to direct these resources as effectively as ...
... embody 'bureaucratic rationality'. As defined by Weber, this rationality involves being engaged in a competitive struggle for scarce resources, both human and non-human, and in seeking to direct these resources as effectively as ...
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... embodied expression in the social world through certain archetypes or characters.30 The primary moral representatives of contemporary culture, who illustrate the character of its moral disarray and injustice, are: the aesthete (whose ...
... embodied expression in the social world through certain archetypes or characters.30 The primary moral representatives of contemporary culture, who illustrate the character of its moral disarray and injustice, are: the aesthete (whose ...
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