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Understanding Religious Ethics
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This accessible introduction to religious ethics focuses on the major forms of moral reasoning encompassing the three 'Abrahamic' religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
- Draws on a range of moral issues, such as examples arising from friendship, marriage, homosexuality, lying, forgiveness and its limits, the death penalty, the environment, warfare, and the meaning of work, career, and vocation
- Looks at both ethical reasoning and importantly, how that reasoning reveals insights into a religious tradition
- Investigates the resources available to address common problems confronting Abrahamic faiths, and how each faith explains and defends its moral viewpoints
- Offering concrete topics for interfaith discussions, this is a timely and insightful introduction to a fast-growing field of interest
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Notes
Introduction
1 David Burrell, Faith and Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective (Oxford: Blackwell,
2004), p. 257.
2 Michael Oakeshott, On Human Conduct (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975), p. 8.
1 God and Morality
1 Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (San Francisco: Harper
San Francisco, 1993 [1973]), p. 174.
2 Euthyphro, 10a.
3 In later dialogues he challenges the simple dichotomization, suggesting that the
good and God may be more intimately interrelated than this allows. So the
Euthyphro dilemma may already be superseded in its author’s own lifetime.
4 H. Richard Niebuhr, The Responsible Self: An Essay in Christian Moral Philosophy
(New York: Harper Collins, 1963), p. 20.
5 Ibid., p. 27.
6 Ibid., p. 30.
7 Ibid., p. 34.
8 Kenneth Burke, The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action, 2nd edn.
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967 [1941]), pp. 110–11.
9 The Responsible Self, p. 35.
10 Ibid., p. 35.
2 Jewish Ethics
1 Daniel Boyarin, A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1994), p. 252.
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- Understanding Religious Ethics