Empirical Evidence on Moral Contextualism
Analysis of survey responses from 1324 Methodist and Catholic laity and clergy shows that contextualism is an empirical reality. Liberal clergy are most contextualist. Contextualism is different from ambivalence and is not simply a repudiation of traditional prohibitions. Items eliciting contextuali...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1978
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Review of religious research
Year: 1978, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 246-252 |
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| Summary: | Analysis of survey responses from 1324 Methodist and Catholic laity and clergy shows that contextualism is an empirical reality. Liberal clergy are most contextualist. Contextualism is different from ambivalence and is not simply a repudiation of traditional prohibitions. Items eliciting contextualist responses are not symbolically central and appear to involve a specific application of a general rule. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3510126 |