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Ethnography as Christian theology and ethics /

"In response to a variety of critical intellectual currents (post-colonial, post-modern, and post-liberal) scholars in Christian theology and ethics are increasingly taking up the tools of ethnography as a means to ask fundamental moral questions and to make more compelling and credible moral c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Scharen, Christian, 1966-, Vigen, Aana Marie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In response to a variety of critical intellectual currents (post-colonial, post-modern, and post-liberal) scholars in Christian theology and ethics are increasingly taking up the tools of ethnography as a means to ask fundamental moral questions and to make more compelling and credible moral claims. Privileging particularity, rather than the more traditional effort to achieve universal or at least generalizable norms in making claims regarding the Christian life, echoes the most fundamental insight of the Christian tradition that God is known most fully in Jesus of Nazareth. Echoing this scandal of particularity at the heart of the Christian tradition, theologians and ethicists involved in ethnographic research draw on the particular to seek out answers to core questions of their discipline: who God is and how we become the people we are, how to conceptualize moral agency in relation to God and the world, and how to flesh out the content of conceptual categories such as justice that help direct us in our daily decisions and guiding institutions." --
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxx, 261 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index.
ISBN:9781441130921
1441130926
1283205327
9781283205320