Christian Public Reasoning in the United Kingdom: Apologetic, Casuistical, and Rhetorically Discriminate

Since the 1960s Christian ethics in Britain has become stronger, more theological, and more Protestant, so that its moral intelligence is now much more fully informed by the full range of theological premises. In the future, however, Christian ethics needs to make up certain recent losses: to re-eng...

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Main Author: Biggar, Nigel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2012
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 141-147
Further subjects:B Theological Ethics
B Moral Philosophy
B Interdisciplinarity
B Apologetics
B Casuistry
B Public discourse
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Summary:Since the 1960s Christian ethics in Britain has become stronger, more theological, and more Protestant, so that its moral intelligence is now much more fully informed by the full range of theological premises. In the future, however, Christian ethics needs to make up certain recent losses: to re-engage with moral philosophy, in order to rebut the glib dismissal of religious ethics by popularising atheists; to read less philosophy and more history, in order to become plausible to public policy-makers; and to revive the model of interdisciplinary work, in order both to understand the matter which it would interpret morally and to inject Christian analyses and judgements into the bloodstream of public discourse.
ISSN:0953-9468
Contains:Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0953946811434479