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Concepts of person and Christian ethics /

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New studies in Christian ethicsPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1997.Description: xii, 409 pages. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0521581710 (hardback)
  • 9780521581714 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 241 R916C
LOC classification:
  • BJ1278.P47 R83 1997
Contents:
'Person' in contemporary ethics -- 'Une catʹegorie de l'esprit humain: la notion de personne' -- Meaning and criteria: person/human being -- Moral personhood in M. Tooley and P. Singer -- Personal identity and responsibility in D. Parfit -- Human subject and human worth -- Resituating personhood: embodiment and contextuality -- 'Person' in Christian Perspective -- The relevance of history and Christology -- Divine embodiment and temporality: is God a person? -- Divine and human: relationality and personhood -- Religion and morality: personhood, revelation and narrative -- Implications For a Christian Ethic -- A communicative ethic: Hauerwas and Habermas -- A community of ethical difference: including the 'other' -- The logic of superabundance: an ethic of forgiving love -- Rights and persons: the religious ground of human rights -- The integrity and transformation of creation -- Conclusion.
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Books Books SAIACS General Stacks Non-fiction 241 R916C (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 067741

Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-406) and indexes.

'Person' in contemporary ethics -- 'Une catʹegorie de l'esprit humain: la notion de personne' -- Meaning and criteria: person/human being -- Moral personhood in M. Tooley and P. Singer -- Personal identity and responsibility in D. Parfit -- Human subject and human worth -- Resituating personhood: embodiment and contextuality -- 'Person' in Christian Perspective -- The relevance of history and Christology -- Divine embodiment and temporality: is God a person? -- Divine and human: relationality and personhood -- Religion and morality: personhood, revelation and narrative -- Implications For a Christian Ethic -- A communicative ethic: Hauerwas and Habermas -- A community of ethical difference: including the 'other' -- The logic of superabundance: an ethic of forgiving love -- Rights and persons: the religious ground of human rights -- The integrity and transformation of creation -- Conclusion.

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