
Power and Christian Ethics
James P. Mackey(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 3. November 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-0-521-42611-4 (ISBN)
Description
In the conventional analysis of human behaviour, power and ethics are frequently considered contrary principles, in that power enforces, while ethics elicits a free response. But, as James Mackey forcefully shows, a more adventurous philosophical study of human morality escapes the sense of contraries, and sets us on a quest for the kind of power that liberates human creativity. It then becomes possible to establish the framework for a critical assessment of the kind of power that ought to be operative in the major structures of human society, civil or ecclesiastical, state governments and church hierarchies. Mackey analyses the religious question which then quite naturally emerges, as to whether this Eros-type power so manifest in human society originates from beyond the more empirical structures of churches, states and 'nature'; and the effort to detect the specifically Christian characterisation of an allegedly ultimate power working in us for final well-being finds its natural context.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-42611-4 (9780521426114)
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James P. Mackey
Power and Christian Ethics
Book
03/1994
Cambridge University Press
€55.71
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James P. Mackey
Power and Christian Ethics
Book
03/1994
Cambridge University Press
€55.71
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Content
General editor's preface; 1. The anatomy of power; 2. The anatomy of morals; 3. Powers secular and powers sacred; 4. The Christian experience of power; 5. The anatomy of Church; Conclusion: of Christian churches and secular states; Bibliography; Index.