Priorities and Christian Ethics

This book provides a full treatment of an issue which is particularly pressing: when the claims of the nearest (e.g. parents, children, spouses, friends) conflict with the claims of the neediest, as they constantly do, where should preference go? Professor Hallett focuses first on a specific, representative case, pitting the lesser need of a son against the greater need of starving strangers. He brings to bear on this single paradigm all the resources of theological and philosophical reflection - scriptures, patristic teaching, the Thomistic tradition, current debates - and from this single example he sheds light on a wide range of comparable cases, both private and public. This distinctive strategy leads to distinctive and challenging results, and at the same time helps to clarify the traditional 'order of charity' and the celebrated 'preferential option for the poor'.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; 1. A thorny question; 2. Finding a focus; 3. New Testament intimations; 4. Patristic positions; 5. The Thomistic tradition; 6. Contemporary considerations; 7. Comparable conflicts; Works cited; Index.

Zusammenfassung

This book provides a full treatment (philosophical and theological) of an issue which is particularly pressing: when the claims of the nearest (e.g. parents, children, spouses, friends) conflict with the claims of the neediest, as they constantly do, where should preference go?

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Garth Hallett, Garth L. Hallett
• Mitarbeit: Stephen R. L. Clark (Herausgeber), Robin Gill (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 23.02.2015
• EAN: 9780521623513
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62351-3
• Seiten: 218
• Abmessung: 145 mm x 222 mm x 17 mm
• Gewicht: 445 g
• Serien: New Studies in Christian Ethic; New Studies in Christian Ethic
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Christentum