Rights and Christian Ethics

Klappentext Kieran Cronin helps philosophers and theologians to understand each other's perspectives on the language of rights. Zusammenfassung Kieran Cronin helps philosophers and theologians to understand each other's perspectives on rights! making this book a significant contribution to Christian ethics and moral philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Metaethics - meaning and justification; 2. Initial elucidation of rights-language; 3. Conceptual scepticism and rights; 4. Moral and theological scepticism; 5. Imagination, metaethics and rights; 6. Theological imagination and rights; 7. Rights, power and covenant; 8. Theological foundations of rights-language; Afterword: Criteria for theological/metaethical models; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Kieran Cronin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2009
• EAN: 9780521092944
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09294-4
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: New Studies in Christian Ethic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works