Renewing Moral Theology: Christian Ethics as Action, Character and Grace
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
While ethical issues are being raised with new urgency, Christians are increasingly unfamiliar with the moral grammar of their faith. The need to reengage the deep-down things of the Christian moral tradition has seldom been more urgent.
Moral theology has a long history in the Catholic and Anglican traditions. The tradition of theological ethics, influenced by Aristotle by way of Aquinas, offers a distinct emphasis on the virtues and character formation. Now Daniel Westberg infuses this venerable ethical tradition with a biblical confidence in the centrality of the gospel and the role of the Holy Spirit in forming character, while also laying down a sound moral psychology for practical reason and ethical living.
Christians—whether of Anglican, Catholic or of other traditions—interested in vigorously retrieving a great moral heritage, will find here common ground for ethical reflection and discipleship.
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- Focuses on bringing together the wisdom of Catholic and evangelical traditions
- Provides common ground for ethical reflection and discipleship
- Infuses this venerable ethical tradition with a biblical confidence in the centrality of the gospel
- Preface
- 1. Moral Theology: Tradition and Prospects
- 2. Purpose, Reason and Action
- 3. The Process of Practical Reasoning
- 4. How to Evaluate Good and Bad Actions
- 5. Actions, Dispositions and Character
- 6. The Reality of Sin
- 7. Conversion to Christ
- 8. God?s Will and God?s Law
- 9. Virtues: Moral Dispositions for Acting Well
- 10. Wisdom in Action
- 11. Justice
- 12. Fortitude
- 13. Self-control
- 14. Faith
- 15. Love
- 16. Hope
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Scripture Index
Part I
Part II
Daniel Westberg provides a much-needed accessible contemporary Anglican guide to moral theology, but he does much more. Focused on virtue and bringing together the wisdom of Catholic and evangelical traditions, his exposition of Scripture and Aquinas provides readers with a biblical Thomist ethic. This book's moral theology will renew both the minds and lives of Christian disciples and the church's witness in the world.
—Andrew Goddard, associate director, Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, Cambridge
Those who know theological ethics have long known of and learned from Daniel Westberg's first-rate work in human action and practical reason. Westberg now provides us with the first textbook in Anglican moral theology in a generation. This welcome volume is a treat for those of us who recognize the importance of learning from past masters of ethics like Aristotle, Aquinas and Barth, and from present masters like Oliver O'Donovan. It is a crucial volume not only for Anglicans, but for any Christian who wants to be introduced to the shape and practice of the Christian life.
—John Berkman, Regis College, University of Toronto
In general Westberg's presentation of Aquinas's moral theology is not only clear but insightful for how we should think and live as Christians. . . . Westberg [has] done work that clearly suggests that theologians in the Anglican tradition have something to say about ethics that is important for all Christians.
—Stanley Hauerwas, The Living Church, August 16, 2015
- Title: Renewing Moral Theology: Christian Ethics as Action, Character and Grace
- Author: Daniel A. Westberg
- Publisher: IVP Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Pages: 281
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Christian ethics
- ISBNs: 9780830897704, 9780830824601, 0830897704, 083082460X
- Resource ID: LLS:9780830897704
- Resource Type: Monograph
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