The distinctiveness of Christian morality: Reflections after 30 years
I completed my doctoral dissertation on The distinctiveness of Christian morality in 1978. In this article, now more than 30 years later, I critically examined the extent to which the view that I developed in my doctoral dissertation is still valid today and to what extent it stands to be correct...
Subtitles: | Etienne de Villiers Festschrift, sub-edited by Daniël P. Veldsman and Conrad J. Wethmar |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Univ.
2012
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In: |
Verbum et ecclesia
Year: 2012, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-7 |
Further subjects: | B
moral virtues
B Christian morality B Distinctiveness B Moral norms B Christian Ethics |
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Summary: | I completed my doctoral dissertation on The distinctiveness of Christian morality in 1978. In this article, now more than 30 years later, I critically examined the extent to which the view that I developed in my doctoral dissertation is still valid today and to what extent it stands to be corrected in the light of developments in Christian ethics in the meantime. Firstly, I provided a brief summary of the view developed in the dissertation. Secondly, I discussed the influential alternative view of Stanley Hauerwas and attempted to identify ways in which his view necessitates corrections to my own view in the dissertation. Thirdly, I criticised the one-sidedness of Hauerwas’s view on the distinctiveness of Christian morality and discussed ways in which we need to go beyond Hauerwas’s view in order to develop a more satisfactory and also more inclusive approach. |
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ISSN: | 2074-7705 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Verbum et ecclesia
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4102/ve.v33i2.758 |