Stanley Rudman

Concepts of Person and Christian Ethics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A wide-ranging discussion defining persons in relation to the community, environment and God, first published in 1997.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 728g
• ISBN-13: 9780521581714
• ISBN-10: 0521581710
• Artikelnr.: 34440855

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. 'Person' in Contemporary Ethics: 1. 'Une Cátegorie de l'Esprit Humain: La Notion de Personne'
2. Meaning and criteria: person/human being
3. Moral personhood in M. Tooley and P. Singer
4. Personal identity and responsibility in D. Parfit
5. Human subject and human worth
6. Resituating personhood: embodiment and contextuality
Part II. 'Person' in Christian Perspective: 7. The relevance of history and Christology
8. Divine embodiment and temporality: is God a person?
9. Divine and human: relationality and personhood
10. Religion and morality: personhood, revelation and narrative
Part III. Implications for a Christian Ethic: 11. A communicative ethic: Hauerwas and Habermas
12. A community of ethical difference: including the 'other'
13. The logic of superabundence: an ethic of forgiving love
14. The religious ground of human rights
15. The integrity and transformation of creation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Indices.