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This is the first substantial study in Christian Ethics to explore the problem of religion, plurality, and ethics. Why, asks the author, do different religions find it so hard to coexist together? In answering this question, the book ranges widely: culture, ethical method, the Christendom Group of T.S. Eliot, immigration, Rushdie and Islam, Bellah and "civil religion," Neuhaus and "public philosophy," MacIntyre and Milbank, the nature of truth and morality, and the political implications of postmodernism are all discussed.
Sommario
General editor's preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the secularist challenge; 1. Plurality and secularism; 2. Plurality, culture, and method; 3. Plurality and the Christendom Group; 4. The totality of the Christian narrative: capitalism and ecology; 5. Plurality and contemporary British Christian ethics; 6. Plurality and the American experience; 7. Plurality and public philosophy; 8. God and truth; 9. Conditions for rational public discourse; 10. Plurality and theology; 11. Plurality and Post-modernism; Notes, Bibliography; Index.
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Ian S. Markham is the dean and president of Virginia Theological Seminary and professor of theology and ethics. He has written extensively on theological methodology, Christian ethics, and Christian doctrine.
J. D. Bauman is a graduate student at Virginia Theological Seminary and the director of Effective Altruism for Christians.
Riassunto
The first substantial study in Christian Ethics to explore the problem of religion, plurality and ethics. Ian Markham argues that plurality is better safeguarded by a theistic, rather than a secularist, foundation, and shows that the religious affirmation of diversity offers genuine political possibilities in our post-modern world.
