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Evil and Christian ethics /
Genocide in Rwanda, multiple murder at Denver or Dunblane, the gruesome activities of serial killers - what makes these great evils, and why do they occur? In addressing such questions this book, unusually, interconnects contemporary moral philosophy with work in New Testament scholarship. The concl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | New studies in Christian ethics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Genocide in Rwanda, multiple murder at Denver or Dunblane, the gruesome activities of serial killers - what makes these great evils, and why do they occur? In addressing such questions this book, unusually, interconnects contemporary moral philosophy with work in New Testament scholarship. The conclusions to emerge are surprising. Gordon Graham argues that the inability of modernist thought to account satisfactorily for evil and its occurrence should not lead us to embrace an eclectic postmodernism, but to take seriously some unfashionable pre-modern conceptions - Satan, demonic possession, spiritual powers, cosmic battles. Precisely because it strives to observe the high standards of clarity and rigour that are the hallmarks of philosophy in the analytical tradition, the book makes a powerful case for the rejection of humanism and naturalism, and for explaining the moral obligation to struggle against evil by reference to the New Testament's cosmic narrative. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 241 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 051101211X 9780511012112 0511034180 9780511034183 9780511605956 0511605951 1107119162 9781107119161 0511049420 9780511049422 1280421193 9781280421198 0511173555 9780511173554 0511327633 9780511327636 |