Hammond E. Oglesby

Ethical Issues that Matter

A New Method of Moral Discourse in Church Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Faith communities have always struggled with the questions of ethical method and cultural inclusivity. Accordingly, Ethical Issues that Matter enlarges the methodological discussion among ethicists and theologians by adopting the landscape of a mountain as a useful metaphor for racism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9780761821359
• ISBN-10: 076182135X
• Artikelnr.: 31201514

Autorenporträt

E. Hammond Oglesby is United Church Professor of Theology and History at Eden Theology Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, and an ordained minister in the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. He is the author of nine previous books including O Lord Move This Mountain and Racism and Christian Ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 The Landscape of Ethics
Chapter 3 The Culture of Postmodernity: A Fifth Gospel
Chapter 4 Ethical Ideas and Church Life
Chapter 5 A Commonsense Approach: Toward Covenant-Harambee Ethics
Chapter 6 Youth Choices: Growing-Up and Going Up
Chapter 7 Ethics and Biblical Authority: The Menacing Question of
Homosexuality
Chapter 8 The Threat of AIDS: Can the Church Find Her Voice?
Chapter 9 Blended Families in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 10 A New Method of Moral Discourse: Broken Vessels From the
Potter's House
Chapter 11 Notes
Chapter 12 Index