Reviving Evangelical Ethics: The Promises and Pitfalls of Classic Models of Morality
Overview
The classic theories of Aristotle, Kant, and Mill have influenced Christian thought in morality and ethics for centuries. But they can go only so far, writes ethicist Wyndy Corbin Reuschling in Reviving Evangelical Ethics: The Promises and Pitfalls of Classic Models of Morality. In this readable book she introduces and overviews the three classic philosophical schools of ethics: virtue, deontology, and teleology. While the philosophers’ approaches to virtue, duty, and utility have been used widely in forming ethical and moral practices, and are helpful for understanding various dimensions of ethics, Corbin Reuschling argues that they also have limitations from a theological perspective. These theories cannot account for the richness of Christian morality, which involves Scripture, the church, and the development of conscience for increasing skills in moral reflection and ethical deliberation. The author shows how evangelicals wittingly or unwittingly fall into one or another of the classic models without adequate biblical and theological reflection, probes deeply to deconstruct each philosophical approach, and reconstructs a broader, biblically based framework for personal and group ethics. This clear and accessible introductory ethics text will serve college and seminary students well.
Top Highlights
“Aristotle’s theory and Christian morality share a belief in the social nature of human beings.” (Page 116)
“What kinds of outcome will this decision produce, or what desired end will this achieve” (Page 29)
“The supreme principle of morality, what Kant understands as the categorical imperative, is accessible by human reason” (Page 32)
“there is much that is troubling to me as an ethicist with evangelical commitments and feminist sensitivities” (Page 27)
“oppressive conditions and were now hiding behind their own sense of spiritual rightness as the people of God” (Page 136)
- Title: Reviving Evangelical Ethics: The Promises and Pitfalls of Classic Models of Morality
- Author: Wyndy Corbin Reuschling
- Publisher: Brazos
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Ethics; Christian ethics; Religion and ethics
- ISBNs: 9781441226341, 9781587431890, 1441226346, 1587431890
- Resource ID: LLS:RVVNGVNGLCLTHCS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:51:01Z