Robin Gill

Churchgoing and Christian Ethics (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Robin Gill argues that once moral communities (such as churchgoers) take centre stage in ethics - as they do in virtue ethics - then there should be a greater interest in sociological evidence about these communities. This book, first published in 1999, examines evidence gathered from social attitude surveys about church communities, in particular their views on faith, moral order and love. It shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes and behaviour. Some of their attitudes change over time, and there are a number of obvious moral disagreements between different groups of churchgoers. Nonetheless, there are broad patterns of Christian beliefs, teleology and altruism which distinguish churchgoers as a whole from non-churchgoers. However, the values, virtues, moral attitudes and behaviour of churchgoers are shared by many other people as well. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is crucial for the task of Christian ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511038389
• Artikelnr.: 38205543

Autorenporträt

Robin Gill is Emeritus Professor of Applied Theology, University of Kent, and the Editor of Theology. Previous titles by the author include New Challenges for Christians May 2010 A Bit Like Jesus, November 2009, A Sense of Grace - November 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of tables
Introduction
Part I. The Theoretical Context: 1. Churchgoing and the bias of virtue ethicists
2. Churchgoing and the bias of sociologists
3. Four theories of churchgoing
Part II. The Evidence: 4. The British Household Panel survey
5. Faith in British social attitudes surveys
6. Moral order in British social attitudes surveys
7. Love in British social attitudes surveys
Part III. The Implications: 8. Churchgoing and Christian identity
9. Churches and moral disagreement
Postscript
Works cited
Index.