Priorities and Christian Ethics

Christians have agreed, as have others, that preference should go to some extent to ones nearest, and also to some extent to the neediest. However, to what extent should we give preference to which group? And suppose these two preferences come into conflict, as they frequently do? This book provides the fullest contemporary treatment of these issues. The author brings to bear all the resources of theological and philosophical reflection on a single representative case, and from the single example, sheds light on a wide range of comparable cases, both private and public.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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?

Product details

• Authors: Garth Hallett, Garth L. Hallett
• Assisted by: Stephen R. L. Clark (Editor), Robin Gill (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2015
• EAN: 9780521623513
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62351-3
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 445 g
• Series: New Studies in Christian Ethic; New Studies in Christian Ethic
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity