RT Article
T1 A Raft That Floats: Experience, Tradition, and Sciences in Gustafson's Theocentric Ethics
JF Zygon
VO 30
IS 2
SP 201
OP 211
A1 Beckley, Harlan 1943-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 1995
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/182795101X
AB Abstract. Although James Gustafson's use of the Christian Bible and tradition is not fully displayed in the essays published here, Bible and tradition are a crucial part of a composite rationale, which includes experience and the sciences, for his theocentric ethics. Gustafson's theocentric ethics employs the sciences to back, inform, and correct the Christian tradition and offers grounds for respecting the natural piety and morality of “nonreligious” persons while explaining and justifying why Christians draw on major themes and metaphors from their tradition that should penetrate their piety and morality. His proposal should reorient the thinking of theological ethics more than it has thus far.
K1 Tradition
K1 theocentric ethics
K1 Sciences
K1 James M. Gustafson
K1 Experience
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1995.tb00064.x