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Informationen zum Autor William Schweiker is the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago. Born in Des Moines, Iowa (1953) he holds degrees from Simpson College, Duke University and also the University of Chicago. Besides teaching at Chicago, he has also been guest professor at Uppsala University and the University of Heidelberg. Schweiker¿s writings engage theological and ethical questions attentive to global dynamics, comparative religious ethics, the history of ethics, and hermeneutical philosophy. Schweiker has published five books, numerous articles and award-winning essays, as well as edited and contributed to six volumes, including A Companion to Religious Ethics (2004), a comprehensive and innovative work in the field of comparative religious ethics. He is currently working on a volume, Religious Ethics: Meaning and Method. Ongoing research is for a book on theological ethics and the integrity of life. Klappentext Schweiker develops a powerful new theory of responsibility articulated in terms of Christian faith. Zusammenfassung Current ethics is confronted by the drastic extension of human power through technological development. This radical extension of power demands a new paradigm of responsibility in ethics. By developing a coherent theory of responsibility! Schweiker shows the unique contribution of Christian faith to ethics in our time. Inhaltsverzeichnis General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Context of Responsibility: 1. Responsibility and moral confusion; 2. A new ethics of responsibility; Part II. The Theory of Responsibility: 3. The idea of responsibility; 4. Theories of responsibility; 5. Moral values and the imperative of responsibility; 6. Freedom and responsibility; 7. Responsibility and moral identity; Part III. The Source of Responsibility: 8. Power, responsibility, and the divine; 9. Responsibility and Christian ethics; Notes; Select bibliography; Index....
