Context Versus Principles: A Misplaced Debate in Christian Ethics

The field of Christian ethics has been the location of a debate over the past decades between roughly delineated parties representing an allegiance to the use of formal prescriptive principles on the one hand, and those representing the cause of the more existential response to a particular situatio...

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Main Author: Gustafson, James M. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1965
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 1965, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 171-202
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