Covenant and Communication: A Christian Moral Conversation with Jurgen Habermas - Couverture souple

Lee, Hak Joon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0761833730 ISBN 13 : 9780761833734

Editeur : University Press Of America, 2006

Synopsis

In dialogue with Jürgen Habermas's communicative ethics, Covenant and Communication constructively explores a covenantal-communicative model of Christian ethics. Hak Joon Lee analyzes themes of freedom, equality, and reciprocity in Habermas's theory of communication from the perspective of Reformed Christian doctrines of covenant and the Trinity. This reconstruction of Christian ethics based upon communicative rationality has profound implications for the reinterpretation of Christianity and its relationship with liberal political institutions. It offers fresh perspectives on important Christian theological concepts, such as divine economy, church, communion, conscience, law and gospel, and the social sphere. A communicative ethics rooted in a rich Christian spiritual tradition provides new energies for the kind of revitalization of democracy and human rights advocated by Habermas against the colonizing power of money and bureaucracy. This work tests its plausibility in dialogue with contemporary theories of Christian ethics, such as narrative ethics, Catholic human rights theory, and liberation ethics.

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À propos de l?auteur

Hak Joon Lee, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Ethics and Community at New Brunswick Theological Seminary. He has published articles in a variety of scholarly journals and is active in theological and philosophical academic associations.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press Of America
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761833730
• ISBN 13: 9780761833734
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 250
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• Personne responsable: non disponible