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Ethical Issues in Six Religious Traditions » Read Now
by Peggy Morgan, Clive Lawton. 278 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

The need for a parallel study of the values held by different religious communities in the western world has never been stronger, and this book draws together authors respected in six significant traditions to explore the ethical foundations of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism and...
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The need for a parallel study of the values held by different religious communities in the western world has never been stronger, and this book draws together authors respected in six significant traditions to explore the ethical foundations of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism and Christianity. Each section introduces a different religion and sets the wider context within which more specific questions can be asked.
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Explorations in Global Ethics: Comparative Religious Ethics and Interreligious Dialogue » Read Now
by Sumner B. Twiss, Bruce Grelle. 352 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Inspired by the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions, this volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of interreligious dialogue. The contributors draw from both communities of discourse in...
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Inspired by the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions, this volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of interreligious dialogue. The contributors draw from both communities of discourse in addressing questions of method & theory & global moral issues-such as human rights, distributive justice, politics of war, international business, the environment, & genocide-in a cross-cultural context.
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Listening for God: Religion and Moral Discernment » Read Now
by Howard Lesnick. 250 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Listening for God proceeds from the author's belief that, across a wide spectrum of outlooks, people are attracted to religion, yet wary of it.
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Religion and Moral Reason: A New Method for Comparative Study » Read Now
by Ronald M. Green. 288 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Continuing in the tradition of his well-received Religious Reason, Ronald Green here offers a penetrating moral understanding of religious belief and practice. Human religiousness, he contends, principally arises from a universal "deep structure" of moral reasoning that comprises three essential...
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Continuing in the tradition of his well-received Religious Reason, Ronald Green here offers a penetrating moral understanding of religious belief and practice. Human religiousness, he contends, principally arises from a universal "deep structure" of moral reasoning that comprises three essential elements: one guides impartial moral reasoning; a second affirms the reality of moral retribution; and a third provides escape from the penalties that justly accompany unavoidable human moral failure. Using this innovative approach, Green confronts a series of different religious traditions and issues, including African primal religions, classical Chinese religion, the "Divine Command" tradition in Judaism and Christianity, religious ritual, and the economic teachings of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. Drawing on contemporary rationalist ethical theory, Green provides a simple but effective model for understanding the complexity of religious life.
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Democracy and Mediating Structures: A Theological Inquiry » Read Now
by Charles Peguy. 218 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library
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Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics » Read Now
by Robert Merrihew Adams. 410 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Renowned scholar Robert Adams explores the relation between religion and ethics through a comprehensive philosophical account of a theistically-based framework for ethics. Adams' framework begins with the good rather than the right, and with excellence rather than usefulness. He argues that loving...
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Renowned scholar Robert Adams explores the relation between religion and ethics through a comprehensive philosophical account of a theistically-based framework for ethics. Adams' framework begins with the good rather than the right, and with excellence rather than usefulness. He argues that loving the excellent, of which adoring God is a clear example, is the most fundamental aspect of a life well lived. Developing his original and detailed theory, Adams contends that devotion, the sacred, grace, martyrdom, worship, vocation, faith, and other concepts drawn from religious ethics have been sorely overlooked in moral philosophy and can enrich the texture of ethical thought.
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On Inoculating Moral Philosophy against God » Read Now
by John M. Rist. 114 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the two groups. F. Non-Religious Ethics In the event of disagreement...How many people have made Non-Religious Ethics their lifes work? Before the...Sidgwick was another. ...
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Striking a Balance: A Primer in Traditional Asian Values » Read Now
by Michael Brannigan. 248 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...p. cm. ISBN 1-889119-05-9 1. Ethics-- Asia. 2. Religious ethics. I. Title. BJ125.A78B73 2000 170.95--dc21 99-11846...Contents Preface v ONE Hindu Ethics 1 From the Bhagavad...
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The Common Good and Christian Ethics » Read Now
by David S. J. Hollenbach. 269 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

This study rethinks the ancient tradition of the common good to addressing contemporary urban and global social divisions. David Hollenbach draws on social analysis, moral philosophy, and theological ethics to chart new directions in urban life and global society. He argues that the division between...
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This study rethinks the ancient tradition of the common good to addressing contemporary urban and global social divisions. David Hollenbach draws on social analysis, moral philosophy, and theological ethics to chart new directions in urban life and global society. He argues that the division between the middle class and the poor in major cities and the challenges of globalization require a new commitment to the common good. Accordingly, believers and non-believers must move towards new forms of solidarity.
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Altruism and Christian Ethics » Read Now
by Colin Grant. 266 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterized by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a...
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Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterized by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity, so that its dismissal represents a social leveling that loses the depths that theology makes intelligible and religion makes possible. He argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and with the divine transformation of human possibilities.
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Sex and the Church: Gender, Homosexuality, and the Transformation of Christian Ethics » Read Now
by Kathy Rudy. 158 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

In a provocative reexaminatin of the ethics of family, community, and sex, the author contends that the Christian right's campaign against homosexuality has come to limit the agenda for American Christianity as a whole. "We should be asking not whether gay people should be allowed to fit in, but...
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In a provocative reexaminatin of the ethics of family, community, and sex, the author contends that the Christian right's campaign against homosexuality has come to limit the agenda for American Christianity as a whole. "We should be asking not whether gay people should be allowed to fit in, but rather which historically gay practices can help transform the schismatic, failing church today".
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Feminist Theological Ethics: A Reader » Read Now
by Lois K. Daly. 326 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

A groundbreaking work that documents more than 20 years of feminist theological and ethical discussion, this volume includes the contributions of 20 distinguished women scholars who discuss a variety of issues, ranging from the task of changing society's assumptions about women to ways in which people can live together in the modern world.