The Christian Case for Virtue Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Christian Case for Virtue Ethics write by Joseph J. Kotva Jr.. This book was released on 1996-09-01. The Christian Case for Virtue Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the growing interest among philosophers and theologians in virtue ethics, its proponents have done little to suggest why Christians in particular find virtue ethics attractive. Joseph J. Kotva, Jr., addresses this question in The Christian Case for Virtue Ethics, showing that virtue theory offers an ethical framework that is highly compatible with Christian morality. Kotva defines virtue ethics and demonstrates its ability to voice Christian convictions about how to live the moral life. He evaluates virtue theory in light of systematic theology and Scripture, arguing that Christian ethics could be profitably linked with neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics. Ecumenical in tone, this book provides a thorough but accessible introduction to recent philosophical accounts of virtue and offers an original, explicitly Christian adaptation of these ideas. It will be of value to students and scholars of philosophy, theology, and religion, as well as to those interested in the debates surrounding virtue ethics.
A Case for Character
A Case for Character - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Case for Character write by Joel D. Biermann. This book was released on 2014. A Case for Character available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Equipped with a rich heritage detailing the content of human character, it would seem that Christianity is ideally positioned to address a culture where morality and personal character are set adrift. Contemporary Lutheranism has struggled with the place of morality and character formation, concerns often seen as at odds with the doctrine of justification. A Case for Character argues that Christian doctrine is altogether capable of encouraging character formation while maintaining a faithful expression of justification by grace alone.
Christians Among the Virtues
Christians Among the Virtues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christians Among the Virtues write by Stanley Hauerwas. This book was released on 2019. Christians Among the Virtues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christians among the Virtues investigates the distinctiveness of virtues as illuminated by Christian practice, using a discussion of Aristotle's ethics together with the work of significant contemporary scholars such as Alasdair MacIntyre and Martha Nussbaum. Haerwas and Pinches converse with, learn from, and critically engage non-Christian accounts of virtue and then form a specifically Christian account of key virtues.
Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory
Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory write by Kent Dunnington. This book was released on 2019. Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory proposes an account of humility that relies on the most radical Christian sayings about humility, especially those found in Augustine and the early monastic tradition. It argues that this was the view of humility that put Christian moral thought into decisive conflict with the best Greco-Roman moral thought. This radical Christian account of humility has been forgotten amidst contemporary efforts to clarify and retrieve the virtue of humility for secular life. Kent Dunnington shows how humility was repurposed during the early-modern era-particularly in the thought of Hobbes, Hume, and Kant-to better serve the economic and social needs of the emerging modern state. This repurposed humility insisted on a role for proper pride alongside humility, as a necessary constituent of self-esteem and a necessary motive of consistent moral action over time. Contemporary philosophical accounts of humility continue this emphasis on proper pride as a counterbalance to humility. By contrast, radical Christian humility proscribes pride altogether. Dunnington demonstrates how such a radical view need not give rise to vices of humility such as servility and pusillanimity, nor need such a view fall prey to feminist critiques of humility. But the view of humility set forth makes little sense abstracted from a specific set of doctrinal commitments peculiar to Christianity. This study argues that this is a strength rather than a weakness of the account since it displays how Christianity matters for the shape of the moral life.
Introducing Moral Theology
Introducing Moral Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introducing Moral Theology write by William C. III Mattison. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Introducing Moral Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether in the cafeteria, classroom, or dorm lounge, questions abound on college campuses. Not only do students grapple with existential issues but they also struggle with ethical ones such as "Why be moral?" In Introducing Moral Theology, William Mattison addresses this question as well as grapples with the impact that religious belief has on day-to-day living. Structured in two parts, this unique text on Catholic moral theology covers cardinal virtues (temperance, prudence, fortitude, and justice) as well as theological virtues (faith, hope, and love). It is equipped with study questions, terms and their definitions, and illustrative case studies. Rooted in the Catholic tradition, this overview will also appeal to non-Catholics interested in virtue ethics.
