The Transcendent Character of the Good (eBook, ePUB)

Philosophical and Theological Perspectives
Redaktion: Schaafsma, Petruschka

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume addresses issues of moral pluralism and polarization by drawing attention to the transcendent character of the good. It probes the history of Christian theology and moral philosophy to investigate the value of this idea and then relates it to contemporary moral issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000646368
• Artikelnr.: 64717994

Autorenporträt

Petruschka Schaafsma is Professor of Theological Ethics at the Protestant Theological University in the Netherlands. She runs a research program in the field of ethics and theology on the meaning of family, with special attention for the aspects of givenness and dependence. On this topic, she has written a monograph Family and Christian Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Image of a Moral Compass: Drawing Attention to the
Transcendent Character of the Good in Times of Pluralism and Polarization
Petruschka Schaafsma
Part I - Metaphysics: The Nature of Reality and the Good
1. Liberal Naturalism and God
Fiona Ellis
2. Murdochian Moral Vision
Rob Compaijen
3. Goods, Rights, and Universality: A Christian View
Nigel Biggar
4. Christians and the Transcendence of the Good: A Response to Nigel
Biggar
Maarten Wisse
Part II - Epistemology: On Knowing the Good and (not) Doing it
5. Law, Virtue, and Protestant Ethics: Historical Bearings and Prospects
for Rapprochement with Aristotelian Naturalism
Jennifer A. Herdt
6. Natural Goods and Divine Law: Protestant Theological Contributions to
Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism
Pieter Vos
7. The Relationship of Virtue and Divine Law: Early Reformed Thought and
Its Contemporary Appropriation
David VanDrunen
8. Law, Virtue, and Duty in Petrus van Mastricht's Theoretico-Practica
Theologia
Dominique Klamer
Part III - Topical Moral Issues: Transcendence of the Good in
Euthanasia and the Family
9. When Conscience Wavers: Some Reflections on the Normalization of
Euthanasia in BelgiumWillem Lemmens
10. How Legal Euthanasia Continues to be Transgressive: Some Observations
from the Netherlands
A. Stef Groenewoud and Theo A. Boer
11. Family/ies and Transcendence
Cristina Traina
12. The Family as Mystery: Why Taking into Account Transcendence is
Needed in Current Family Debates
Petruschka Schaafsma