An Intelligent Person's Guide to Christian Ethics
Alban McCoy(Author)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published on 1. November 2004
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-8264-7359-2 (ISBN)
Description
From a view that could be described as enlightened orthodoxy, McCoy tackles a wide range of issues, such as: Is there a Christian perspective on the war in Iraq that is not simply a human perspective? Are Christian ethics pumped up or watered down humanist ethics? What is a distinctly Christian view in modern secularized society? Do the Bible and the Natural Law really still have any relevance to the burning moral issues of the day? As scientific progress raises moral issues of dazzling complexity, do traditional attitudes to abortion, euthanasia, in vitro fertilization and human embryology still make any sense? How long should we prolong life? Should we ever assist death? Fr. Alban McCoy is a sure and enlightened guide to these questions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
374 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-7359-2 (9780826473592)
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Alban McCoy
Intelligent Person's Guide to Christian Ethics
E-Book
06/2010
1st Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€19.49
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Person
Fr Alban McCoy OFM Conv. is a Franciscan Friar. He is Roman Catholic Chaplain to the University of Cambridge, and literary editor of The Tablet. His first book was An Intelligent Person's Guide to Catholicism.
Content
Part One; Introduction; Morality and religion; Amoralism; Morality Presupposes freedom, But where are we? Freedom; Conscience; Cultural Relativism; Kant: Absolutism versus Consequentialism; Unilateralism: Bentham and Mill; Aristotle and the life of virtue; Part Two; The structure of Moral Judgements; A Classical Christian Moral Account: St Thomas Aquinas; Conclusion