Priorities and Christian ethics
This book provides a full treatment of an issue which is particularly pressing: when the claims of the nearest (e.g. parents, children, spouses, friends) conflict with the claims of the neediest, as they constantly do, where should preference go? Professor Hallett focuses first on a specific, repres...
| Subtitles: | Priorities & Christian Ethics |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Subito Delivery Service: | Order now. |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1998.
|
| In: | Year: 1998 |
| Reviews: | Book Reviews : Priorities and Christian Ethics, by Garth L. Hallett. Cambridge University Press, 1998. 202 pp. hb. £35. ISBN 0-521-62351-0 (1999) (Post, Stephen G.)
|
| Series/Journal: | New studies in Christian ethics
12 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Love of neighbor
/ Priority
/ Christian ethics
|
| Further subjects: | B
Priority (Philosophy)
B Christian Ethics |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
Print version: 9780521623513 |
| Summary: | This book provides a full treatment of an issue which is particularly pressing: when the claims of the nearest (e.g. parents, children, spouses, friends) conflict with the claims of the neediest, as they constantly do, where should preference go? Professor Hallett focuses first on a specific, representative case, pitting the lesser need of a son against the greater need of starving strangers. He brings to bear on this single paradigm all the resources of theological and philosophical reflection - scriptures, patristic teaching, the Thomistic tradition, current debates - and from this single example he sheds light on a wide range of comparable cases, both private and public. This distinctive strategy leads to distinctive and challenging results, and at the same time helps to clarify the traditional 'order of charity' and the celebrated 'preferential option for the poor'. General editor's preface page -- Acknowledgments -- A thorny question -- Finding a focus -- New Testament intimations -- Patristic positions -- The Thomistic tradition -- Contemporary considerations -- Comparable conflicts -- Notes |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511585497 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511585494 |