Ethics in the Community of Promise: Faith, Formation, and DecisionFortress Press, 1992 - 216 pagini In this excellent and accessible introduction, now in a second edition, Childs helpfully articulates the shared features of Christian faith and shows how that communal commitment forms our values, character, virtues, and "eagerness to do what is right." Who we are informs what we choose. This dynamic, dialogical basis for ethics is an open framework. Childs applies it to a host of tough, real-life dilemmas such as affirmative action, end-of-life decisions, medical ethics, truth telling, environmental justice, and war-making.Previously published by Fortress Press in 1992 as Faith, Formation, and Decision, the new edition updates discussions throughout, adds numerous cases and illustrations, adds questions for discussion and items for further reading, and contains a new section on courage. |
Cuprins
| 3 | |
| 13 | |
HOPE AND WITNESS | 23 |
Formation | 35 |
FORMED BY LOVE | 37 |
POVERTY OF SPIRIT | 48 |
SOLIDARITY IN SUFFERING | 61 |
MERCY AND PEACE | 74 |
JUSTICE | 127 |
SANCTITY OF LIFE | 144 |
TRUTHTELLING AND PROMISE KEEPING | 162 |
A Theology for Outreach | 179 |
The StemCell Bill | 181 |
The Just War Debate | 185 |
Sexual Ethics and Parental Responsibility | 189 |
For Further Reading | 192 |
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Faith, Formation, and Decision: Ethics in the Community of Promise James M. Childs Previzualizare limitată - 1992 |
Faith, Formation, and Decision: Ethics in the Community of Promise James M. Childs Vizualizare fragmente - 1992 |
Ethics in the Community of Promise: Faith, Formation, and Decision James M. Childs Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2006 |
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Pasaje populare
Pagina 19 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Pagina 43 - Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Pagina 37 - Where I am going, you cannot come! 3'/ give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.
Pagina 5 - Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his Kingdom will have no end.
Pagina 19 - Go your way and tell John what things ye have seen and heard : the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up...
Pagina 37 - And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Pagina 5 - The Apostles Creed I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried.
Pagina 85 - You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Pagina 25 - I'M but a stranger here, Heaven is my home ; Earth is a desert drear, Heaven is my home : Danger and sorrow stand Round me on every hand ; Heaven is my fatherland, — Heaven is my home.
Pagina 13 - Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.