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Churchgoing and Christian ethics /
Robin Gill argues that once moral communities (such as churchgoers) take centre stage in ethics - as they do in virtue ethics - then there should be a greater interest in sociological evidence about these communities. This book examines recent evidence, gathered from social attitude surveys, about c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | New studies in Christian ethics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Robin Gill argues that once moral communities (such as churchgoers) take centre stage in ethics - as they do in virtue ethics - then there should be a greater interest in sociological evidence about these communities. This book examines recent evidence, gathered from social attitude surveys, about church communities, in particular their views on faith, moral order and love. It shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes and behaviour. Some of their attitudes change over time, and there are a number of obvious moral disagreements between different groups of churchgoers. Nonetheless, there are broad patterns of Christian beliefs, teleology and altruism which distinguish churchgoers as a whole from non-churchgoers. However, the values, virtues, moral attitudes and behaviour of churchgoers are shared by many other people as well. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is crucial for the task of Christian ethics. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-273) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511007744 9780511007743 0511038380 9780511038389 9780511605635 0511605633 0521570581 9780521570589 1280429151 9781280429156 0511171889 9780511171888 0511309651 9780511309656 0511053622 9780511053627 1107113377 9781107113374 |