Charles Mathewes

Understanding Religious Ethics (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This accessible introduction to religious ethics focuses on the major forms of moral reasoning encompassing the three 'Abrahamic' religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. * Draws on a range of moral issues, such as examples arising from friendship, marriage, homosexuality, lying, forgiveness and its limits, the death penalty, the environment, warfare, and the meaning of work, career, and vocation * Looks at both ethical reasoning and importantly, how that reasoning reveals insights into a religious tradition * Investigates the resources available to address common problems confronting Abrahamic faiths, and how each faith explains and defends its moral viewpoints * Offering concrete topics for interfaith discussions, this is a timely and insightful introduction to a fast-growing field of interest

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444323429
• Artikelnr.: 38308414

Autorenporträt

Charles Mathewes is Associate Professor of Religious Ethics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Evil and the Augustinian Tradition (2001), A Theology of Public Life (2007), and several edited volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vi
Introduction: Conviction and Argument 1
Part I: Preliminaries 19
1 God and Morality 21
2 Jewish Ethics 38
3 Christian Ethics 53
4 Islamic Ethics 65
Part II: Personal Matters 81
5 Friendship 83
6 Sexuality 91
7 Marriage and Family 106
8 Lying 118
9 Forgiveness 134
Part III: Social Matters 145
10 Love and Justice 147
11 Duty, Law, Conscience 157
12 Capital Punishment 167
13 War (I): Towards War 182
14 War (II): In War 199
15 Religion and the Environment 209
Part IV: The Last Things 223
16 Pursuits of Happiness: Labor, Leisure, and Life 225
17 Good and Evil 239
Conclusion: What's So Funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding? 254
Notes 262
Index 270