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Christian Ethics and Contemporary Philosophy

In a time when more and more people are discovering they can have a rational morality without an orthodox God, these twenty-four essays reappraise the whole character of Christian ethics and criticize the traditional under-pinning of morality by religion.

Edited by Ian T. Ramsey, professor of philosophy at Oxford University, the volume is a valuable sequel to the well-known New Essays in Philosophical Theology. The contributors include atheists, agnostics, and Christians. Among them are Ninian Smart, R.B. Braithwaite, Ronald Hepbum, and Iris Murdoch.

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Christian Ethics and Contemporary Philosophy

In a time when more and more people are discovering they can have a rational morality without an orthodox God, these twenty-four essays reappraise the whole character of Christian ethics and criticize the traditional under-pinning of morality by religion.

Edited by Ian T. Ramsey, professor of philosophy at Oxford University, the volume is a valuable sequel to the well-known New Essays in Philosophical Theology. The contributors include atheists, agnostics, and Christians. Among them are Ninian Smart, R.B. Braithwaite, Ronald Hepbum, and Iris Murdoch.

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Christian Ethics and Contemporary Philosophy

Christian Ethics and Contemporary Philosophy

Christian Ethics and Contemporary Philosophy

Christian Ethics and Contemporary Philosophy

Overview

In a time when more and more people are discovering they can have a rational morality without an orthodox God, these twenty-four essays reappraise the whole character of Christian ethics and criticize the traditional under-pinning of morality by religion.

Edited by Ian T. Ramsey, professor of philosophy at Oxford University, the volume is a valuable sequel to the well-known New Essays in Philosophical Theology. The contributors include atheists, agnostics, and Christians. Among them are Ninian Smart, R.B. Braithwaite, Ronald Hepbum, and Iris Murdoch.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781610972093
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 06/07/2011
Series: Ian T. Ramsey Reprint
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Ian T. Ramsey (1915 - 1972) was former Bishop of Durham, County Durham, England, and also served as Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oxford University, He was also the author of Religious Language, Models for Divine Activity, and Words About God.

Table of Contents

Contributors and Acknowledgments 7

Editor's Introduction 9

I Introductory

1 Gods, Bliss and Morality Ninian Smart 15

2 God And Morality Graeme De Graaff 31

II Morality and Religion

3 An Empiricist's View of the Nature of Religious Belief R. B. Braithwaite 53

4 Discussion

1 J. N. Schofield 74

2 D. M. Mackinnon 77

3 Ian T. Ramsey 84

4 R. B. Braithwaite 88

III Duty and God's Will

5 Morality: Religious and Secular P. H. Nowell-Smith 95

6 Discussion

1 A. Boyce Gibson 113

2 J. R. Lucas 126

7 God and Ought Dewi Z. Phillips 133

8 Some Remarks on the Independence of Morality from Religion Kai Nielsen 140

9 Moral Judgments and God's Commands Ian T. Ramsey 152

10 The Voice of Conscience and the Voice of God H. D. Lewis 172

IV Moral Decisions: the Place of Ideals and Principles, Authority and Reason

11 Vision and Choice in Morality

1 R. W. Hepburn 181

2 Iris Murdoch 195

12 Moral Choice and Divine Authority Helen Oppenheimer 219

13 Moral Principles I. M. Crombie 234

14 Moral Dilemmas John Lemmon 262

15 Social Morality and Individual Ideal P. F. Strawson 280

16 Morality and the Two Worlds Concept R. F. Holland 299

17 The Christian Concept of Love Dewi Z. Phillips 314

18 Situational Ethics George Woods 329

V Towards a Christian Morality

19 The Family in Contemporary Society from an Anglican Report 340

20 Towards a Rehabilitation of Natural Law Ian T. Ramsey 382

Index 397

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