Priorities and Christian ethics

This book provides a full treatment of an issue which is particularly pressing: when the claims of the nearest (e.g. parents, children, spouses, friends) conflict with the claims of the neediest, as they constantly do, where should preference go? Professor Hallett focuses first on a specific, repres...

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Subtitles:Priorities & Christian Ethics
Main Author: Hallett, Garth (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1998.
In:Year: 1998
Reviews:Book Reviews : Priorities and Christian Ethics, by Garth L. Hallett. Cambridge University Press, 1998. 202 pp. hb. £35. ISBN 0-521-62351-0 (1999) (Post, Stephen G.)
Series/Journal:New studies in Christian ethics 12
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Love of neighbor / Priority / Christian ethics (motif)
Further subjects:B Priority (Philosophy)
B Christian Ethics
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Erscheint auch als: 9780521623513
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Summary:This book provides a full treatment of an issue which is particularly pressing: when the claims of the nearest (e.g. parents, children, spouses, friends) conflict with the claims of the neediest, as they constantly do, where should preference go? Professor Hallett focuses first on a specific, representative case, pitting the lesser need of a son against the greater need of starving strangers. He brings to bear on this single paradigm all the resources of theological and philosophical reflection - scriptures, patristic teaching, the Thomistic tradition, current debates - and from this single example he sheds light on a wide range of comparable cases, both private and public. This distinctive strategy leads to distinctive and challenging results, and at the same time helps to clarify the traditional 'order of charity' and the celebrated 'preferential option for the poor'.
General editor's preface page -- Acknowledgments -- A thorny question -- Finding a focus -- New Testament intimations -- Patristic positions -- The Thomistic tradition -- Contemporary considerations -- Comparable conflicts -- Notes
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
ISBN:0511585497
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511585494