Accommodating the Other's Conscience: Saint Paul's Approach to Religious Tolerance

Religious tolerance is a sociopolitical necessity. Social and political pressures alone cannot be expected to nurture a genuine attitude of religious tolerance; in the West, secular and religious documents rely on the concept of conscience for this nurture. In this essay I ask what claims people mak...

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Main Author: Shin, Joyce S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Philosophy Documentation Center 2008
In: Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2008, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-23
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Summary:Religious tolerance is a sociopolitical necessity. Social and political pressures alone cannot be expected to nurture a genuine attitude of religious tolerance; in the West, secular and religious documents rely on the concept of conscience for this nurture. In this essay I ask what claims people make on each other as they attempt to live in accordance with what they believe to be true and good. To answer this question, I examine the Pauline concept of conscience and argue that Paul interpreted conscience through an ethic and theology of accommodation.
ISSN:2326-2176
Contains:Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5840/jsce200828124