Priorities and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics) 9780521623513

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Priorities and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics)Garth L. Hallett

Cambridge University PressHardcover

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EAN: 9780521623513Published: 02/07/1998Language: English

This book provides a full treatment of an issue which is particularly pressing: when the claims of the nearest (e.g. parents, children, spouses, friends) conflict with the claims of the neediest, as they constantly do, where should preference go? Professor Hallett focuses first on a specific, representative case, pitting the lesser need of a son against the greater need of starving strangers. He brings to bear on this single paradigm all the resources of theological and philosophical reflection - scriptures, patristic teaching, the Thomistic tradition, current debates - and from this single example he sheds light on a wide range of comparable cases, both private and public. This distinctive strategy leads to distinctive and challenging results, and at the same time helps to clarify the traditional 'order of charity' and the celebrated 'preferential option for the poor'.

Acknowledgments1. A thorny question2. Finding a focus3. New Testament intimations4. Patristic positions5. The Thomistic tradition6. Contemporary considerations7. Comparable conflictsWorks citedIndex.

 

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