The Practice of Christian Ethics: Mindfulness and Faith

The central thrust of this article is to prompt new consideration of how faith and reason are understood to be at work in the discipline of theological ethics. To bring into question contemporary assumptions, a close reading of Aristotle is undertaken to illuminate his understanding of phronesis as...

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Main Author: Parsons, Susan Frank (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2012
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 442-453
Further subjects:B Nicomachean Ethics
B Moral Reason
B Kierkegaard
B Faith
B Phronesis
B Fear and Trembling
B Mindfulness
B Christian Ethics
B Aristotle
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Summary:The central thrust of this article is to prompt new consideration of how faith and reason are understood to be at work in the discipline of theological ethics. To bring into question contemporary assumptions, a close reading of Aristotle is undertaken to illuminate his understanding of phronesis as a uniquely self-involving way of thinking that is transformative of the thinker. Phronesis, which may be translated as mindfulness, is shown to distinguish what is essential to ethical thinking. This philosophical preparation may clear a way for theology likewise to be understood anew. Kierkegaard’s reflection on Abraham’s experience of faith in Fear and Trembling discloses how theology is the working out by means of phronesis of the salvation disclosed to faith in the believer’s soul. In these two phenomena—mindfulness and faith—lies what is essential to the practice of Christian ethics.
ISSN:0953-9468
Contains:Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0953946812454790