Go and Do Likewise: Jesus And Ethics - Couverture souple

Spohn, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0826412912 ISBN 13 : 9780826412911

Editeur : Continuum, 2000

Synopsis

What does Jesus have to do with ethics? There are two brief answers given by believers: "everything" and "not much." While evangelical or fundamentalist Christians would find authoritative guidance in the words and commands of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament, many mainstream Christian ethicists would say that Jesus is too concrete or narrowly particular to have any direct import for ethics.In this book, Williams Spohn takes a middle way, showing how Jesus is the "concrete universal" of Christian ethics. By forming a bridge from the lives of contemporary Christians to the words and deeds of Jesus, Jesus' story as a whole exemplifies moral perception, motivation and Christian identity.In addition, Spohn shows how the practices of Christian spirituality--specifically prayer, service, and community--train the imagination and reorient emotions to produce a character and a way of life consonant with Christian New Testament moral teaching.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

William C. Spohn is Presidential Professor of Ethics and the Common Good at Santa Clara University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Continuum
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826412912
• ISBN 13: 9780826412911
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 238
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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