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The public forum and Christian ethics

Title
The public forum and Christian ethics / Robert Gascoigne.
Author
Gascoigne, Robert.
Publication
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Description
xiv, 248 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
  • "This book addresses the question of the communication of Christian ethics in the public forum of liberal, pluralist societies. Drawing on debates in philosophy, theology and sociological theory, it relates the problem of communication to fundamental questions about the nature of liberal societies and the identity of Christian faith and the Christian community. With particular emphasis on Kantian and neo-Kantian ethics, it explores the link between autonomy and community in liberal societies. The theology of communio, expressed in revealed Christian traditions, can reconcile autonomy and community.
  • Any Christian attempt to communicate this vision must also reflect on Christianity's own identity, especially the ways in which its own self-consciousness grows in critical interaction with secularity. In this light, Christian ethical communication is both a witness to a distinctive identity, founded in the revelation of the triune God, and a vision of universal human solidarity which can reconcile autonomy and community."--Jacket.
Series Statement
New studies in Christian ethics ; 19
Uniform Title
New studies in Christian ethics ; 19.
Subject
  • Christian ethics > Catholic authors
  • Social ethics
  • Christian ethics > Catholic authors
  • Social ethics
  • Christliche Ethik
  • Christliche Sozialethik
  • Christelijke ethiek
  • Publieke opinie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-245) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Revelation and reason in liberal societies -- Revelation and a contemporary public ethics -- The theology of revelation and Christian identity -- The communication of Christian ethics in the public forum -- Reconciling autonomy and community.
ISBN
  • 9780521790932
  • 052179093X
  • 9780511520679 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0511520670 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
00023605
OCLC
  • ocm43656941
  • 43656941
  • SCSB-1202464
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library