Plurality and Christian Ethics

Plurality and Christian Ethics
Author: Ian S. Markham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1994-03-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521453288

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Too many parts of the world testify to the difficulties religions have in tolerating each other. It is often concluded that the only way tolerance and plurality can be protected is to keep religion out of the public sphere. Ian Markham challenges this secularist argument. In the first half of the book, he advances a careful critique of European culture which exposes the problem of plurality. His analysis of the Christendom Group is contrasted with the outlook found in the USA, where a religiously informed culture may be seen to be tolerant. In the second half of the book, the author argues that plurality is better safeguarded by a theistic, rather than a secularist, foundation. He submits that too often secularists use relativist arguments, while theists want to appeal to the complexity of God's world. He concludes that in our post-modern world the religious affirmation of diversity offers genuine political possibilities for cultural enrichment.

Faith and Freedom

Faith and Freedom
Author: David Neville
Publisher: ATF Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2003
Genre: Christian ethics
ISBN: 9781920691165

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Australian Christians, like Christians in many socities, live in a pluralistic culture. This makes the issues of faith, freedom and their interelationship all the more critical. In a pluralist context, Christian faith and freedom must be expressed and embodied in a coherent rather than discordant way. The authors of these reflections on key ethical concerns represent the Anabaptist, Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic and Uniting Church traditions, yet there is a hamrony within this plurality of theological and ecclesiological voices. Contributors include: John Howard Yoder, Charles Birch, Stanley Hauerwas, and Thorwald Lorenzen.

Evangelism after Pluralism

Evangelism after Pluralism
Author: Bryan Stone
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493414569

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What does it mean to evangelize ethically in a multicultural climate? Following his successful Evangelism after Christendom, Bryan Stone addresses reasons evangelism often fails and explains how it can become distorted as a Christian practice. Stone urges us to consider a new approach, arguing for evangelism as a work of imagination and a witness to beauty rather than a crass effort to compete for converts in pluralistic contexts. He shows that the way we lead our lives as Christians is the most meaningful tool of evangelism in today's rapidly changing world.

My Journey as a Religious Pluralist

My Journey as a Religious Pluralist
Author: Alan Race
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-06-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725298236

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Christian theology of religions remains a central component of the Christian response to global religious diversity. In the face of theological refusals to engage with issues of religious absolutism and new impressions from interreligious encounters, this book seeks to inject fresh energy into a debate that has stalled in recent years. The encounter between Christians and people of different religious persuasions raises questions of how to interpret Christian absolutism for a new and developing consciousness that values the experience of the religious other. This book argues that interreligious dialogue, interreligious ethical collaboration, and comparative studies all point to a pluralist future, where we are obliged to recognize the spiritual authenticity of the experience animating many religions. Building friendly relations between faith communities is to be applauded but it is insufficient in the face of the many challenges confronting the global human community. Whether we are speaking of cooperation in civil society, peace in the world, or the overarching ecological crisis encompassing the planet as a whole, the acceptance of the diversity of religions as a positive religious value will strengthen the sense of global responsibility that is needed.

Christian Ethics

Christian Ethics
Author: Jacques Marie Pohier
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1981
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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Ethics and Religion in a Pluralistic Age

Ethics and Religion in a Pluralistic Age
Author: Brian Hebblethwaite
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567412938

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This important work explores the distinctiveness of Christian ethics, particularly through its interconnections with doctrine and the wider history of religions.Brian Hebblethwaite shows how the distinctiveness of Christian ethics can be understood and appreciated. He brings out the complex nature of that distinctiveness - in Christian individuals and communities as they reflect something of the triune love of God, and in contemporary humanism and major world faiths in which this love is also discernable.He concludes with an extended exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of the different religions in their contributions to the overcoming of evil.

An Introduction to Christian Ethics

An Introduction to Christian Ethics
Author: Robin W. Lovin
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426719566

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A few years ago, the first distinction that ethicists drew was the line between Christian ethics and philosophical ethics. However, in our global context, Christian ethicists must now, in addition, compare and contrast various ethics. Christian ethics has become increasingly multivocal not only because of a plurality of faiths but also because of a plurality of Christianities. In light of these new realities, this book will introduce Christian ethics. It will lay out history, methods, and basic principles every student must know. The author also will include case studies for further explanation and application.

Religious Pluralism

Religious Pluralism
Author: Loe Joo Tan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2016
Genre: Religious pluralism
ISBN: 9789812205490

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Making Sense of Religious Pluralism

Making Sense of Religious Pluralism
Author: Alan Race
Publisher: SPCK
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2013-06-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0281071055

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Is Christian faith the only or best route to relationship with God? New relationships, shared common action and dialogue between people whose experiences differ are changing the way Christian theologians are thinking about religious pluralism. No longer objects of ridicule or condemnation, world religions are genuine vehicles of spiritual vision, capable of transforming human hearts and minds. It has taken Christian theology many years to come to this point and there is no going back. Alan Race is an outstanding expert in the interreligious field and has, throughout his career and ministry, built up a high reputation for understanding and dialogue between faith communities. Here, he deals with the use of Scripture, inclusivism and exclusivism, pluralism and particularism, mission and dialogue. The next phase of Christian thought, he argues, will be shaped by new appreciation and insight stemming from the fact that Christianity is one religion among many.

After God

After God
Author: H. Tristram Engelhardt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Applied ethics
ISBN: 9780881414998

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Engelhardt invites readers to understand what it means to live in a world after God, where questions of sin and virtue have been replaced with life-and-death-style choices. After God provides a dark prophetic vision. But there is still hope. As Engelhardt argues, In this culture, children now grow up apart from and defended against a recognition of the God Who lives. They are nurtured in a social fabric that is structured so as to avoid a recognition of, much less an encounter with, God. Nevertheless ... a traditional Christianity has endured, even though its morality and bioethics have become ever more strongly counter-cultural. The source of this traditional Christian otherness over against the surrounding post-theistic culture lies in the origins of Christianity itself, in the Christianity of the Apostles and the Fathers, namely, in Orthodox Christianity. Against the tenor of the times, disregarding the animus to set traditional Christianity aside, and despite heretics prominent within its fold, Orthodox Christianity remains a light in a world after God. --! From back cover.