Christian Moral Realism Natural Law, Narrative, Virtue, and the Gospel,9780198270201

Christian Moral Realism Natural Law, Narrative, Virtue, and the Gospel

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ISBN13: 9780198270201
ISBN10: 0198270208
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-05-10
Publisher(s): Clarendon Press
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Summary

This book describes the shape of a Christian ethic that arises from a conversation between contemporary accounts of natural law theory, and virtue ethics. The ethic that emerges from this conversation seeks to resolve the tensions in Christian ethics between creation and eschatology, narrative and natural law, and objectivity and relativity. Black moves from this analytic foundation to conclude that worship lies at the heart of a theologically grounded ethic whose central concern is the flourishing of the whole human person in community with both one another and God.

Author Biography

Rufus Black lectures in Christian Ethics in the United Faculty of Theology, Melbourne.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations xiv
`Is', `ought' and theological ethics
1(45)
Facts and values
6(5)
Splitting hairs or finding a sound basis for ethics
11(3)
The Grisez School and the practical nature of ethics
14(3)
The relationship between the ethics of the Grisez School and the prescriptivism of R. M. Hare
17(9)
Challenges to the claim that an `ought' cannot be derived from an `is'
26(17)
The quest to find the connection between world-views and moral values
43(3)
Is the new natural law theory a substantive from of moral realism?
46(69)
The integral relationship between basic human goods and human nature
48(11)
Self-evidence and the basic human goods
59(2)
From realist foundations to moral conclusions
61(25)
Self-evidence and the foundations of practical reason
86(9)
The operational relationship between practical and theoretical reason
95(5)
Related challenges to moral realism
100(14)
Conclusion
114(1)
What makes Christian ethics Christian?
115(67)
Four features of knowledge
115(2)
The fall of moral knowledge
117(8)
Discerning the moral order in a fallen world
125(11)
The distinctness of Christian ethics
136(3)
Transfiguring the ethic of creation
139(22)
Has Grisez produced a form of Christian ethics?
161(10)
The final hurdle: finding the way between voluntarism and rationalism
171(9)
Conclusion
180(2)
The relationship between narrative ethics and Christian moral realism
182(63)
The truthfulness of narratives and the structure of narrative ethics
186(26)
Towards the complementarity of narrative ethics and Christian moral realism
212(4)
Narrative as moral deliberation
216(27)
Returning to rules
243(2)
Choice, character, virtue, and emotion: towards an integrated account of moral agency
245(72)
The need for a theory of character
245(3)
Hauerwas's account of character
248(10)
The relationship between Christian moral realism and Hauerwas's theory of character
258(14)
The epistemological priority of character and its problems
272(16)
The place of the emotions in moral deliberation
288(27)
The way forward
315(2)
Worship and ethics
317(32)
Participation, anticipation and the Kingdom of God
318(4)
Worship as the Jacob's Ladder of the Kingdom
322(1)
Gathering in the Spirit
322(1)
Praise and thanksgiving
323(1)
The liturgy of the Word
324(13)
Vocational sacraments
337(3)
Confession
340(3)
The Eucharist
343(2)
Mission and intercession
345(1)
The going forth of the people of God
346(3)
Bibliography 349(14)
Index 363

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