Spirit Ethics: Scripture and the Moral Life - Softcover

Jersild, Paul T.

 
9780800632328: Spirit Ethics: Scripture and the Moral Life
Softcover
ISBN 10: 080063232X ISBN 13: 9780800632328
Verlag: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

How can Christians responsibly derive moral guidance from the Bible on pressing issues of personal and social morality today?Jersild's book sets the context for a study of Scripture and the moral life in a postmodern, pluralist society with its impact on biblical studies. The ethical contents and authority of Scripture are addressed, and a "Spirit ethics" is proposed as a way of developing a biblically based Christian ethics. Christians cannot simply adopt a once-and-for-all set of rules nor simply cite Bible verses against the latest sins. "Absolutely essential," says Jersild, "is the ongoing engagement of the church with the moral environment of society and the issues that this raises for the church." Jersild applies his model fruitfully and persuasively to three pressing and perplexing issues: assisted suicide, homosexuality, and genetic programs.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Paul Jersild is Professor Emeritus of Theology and Ethics at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina, and former Visiting Research Professor at the University of S. C. Bioethics Center.

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Verlag
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
080063232X
ISBN 13 
9780800632328
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
216
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
gpsr@libri.de
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