RT Article
T1 The Practice of Christian Ethics: Mindfulness and Faith
JF Studies in Christian ethics
VO 25
IS 4
SP 442
OP 453
A1 Parsons, Susan Frank
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1776584910
AB 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.
K1 Phronesis
K1 Nicomachean Ethics
K1 Moral Reason
K1 Mindfulness
K1 Kierkegaard
K1 Fear and Trembling
K1 Faith
K1 Christian Ethics
K1 Aristotle
DO 10.1177/0953946812454790