Should Jesus Christ Be at the Centre of Introductions to Christian Ethics?

Prima facie, Christian ethics will be centred on Jesus Christ, but to what extent can and should textbooks for academic study of the field have this focus? Perhaps the two most influential Anglophone Christian ethicists of recent decades are Stanley Hauerwas and Oliver O'Donovan. Their introduc...

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Главный автор: Townsend, Nicholas (Автор)
Другие авторы: Brown, Malcolm 1954- (библиографическое прошлое) ; Cunningham, David S. 1961- (библиографическое прошлое) ; Dowler, Edward (библиографическое прошлое) ; Hovey, Craig 1974- (библиографическое прошлое) ; Messer, Neil (библиографическое прошлое) ; Wells, Samuel 1965- (библиографическое прошлое)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Review
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Sage [2019]
В: Studies in Christian ethics
Год: 2020, Том: 33, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 95-106
Рецензировано:Christian ethics (London : Routledge, 2008) (Townsend, Nicholas)
Индексация IxTheo:FB Теологическое образование
NBF Христология
NCA Этика
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Итог:Prima facie, Christian ethics will be centred on Jesus Christ, but to what extent can and should textbooks for academic study of the field have this focus? Perhaps the two most influential Anglophone Christian ethicists of recent decades are Stanley Hauerwas and Oliver O'Donovan. Their introductory (if demanding) volumes (The Peaceable Kingdom, 1983, and Resurrection and Moral Order, 1986) were both very Christocentric although in different ways. Yet recent textbooks in the discipline generally do not manifest such a strong focus on Jesus Christ. This generates one criterion by which we might assess such books. This article reviews six textbooks, four by UK and two by US authors. It suggests that other criteria for assessment include whether they give appropriate prominence to the Pauline vision of ‘life by the Spirit', whether they manifest such pastoral responsibility as Christian ethicists have for students, and whether they are alert to overlapping concerns in Christian ethics and missiology.
ISSN:0953-9468
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0953946819885226