Sentences with phrase «christian ethicists»

Fortunately, two books by Christian ethicists address the circumstances underlying these data.

Racism was a problem we left to Christian ethicists; it had not been for us a theological issue.

Hicks omits criteria for making normative judgments about what levels of inequality are just — normative criteria that Christian ethicists of an earlier generation called «middle axioms» between broad theological and moral principles and policy judgments.

James Clemons, in his article «Suicide and Christian Moral Judgment,» rightly indicts biblical scholars, Christian ethicists and contemporary pastors for neglecting to think through suicide - related issues in a responsible manner (The Christian Century.

In October about 200 Christian ethicists issued a statement «about the erroneous use of Christian rhetoric to support the policies of empire,» as it was put by one signer, Glen Stassen, who holds an endowed chair at Fuller Theological Seminary.

Christian ethicists like Stanley Hauerwas have utilized what Aquinas wrote about the cardinal and theological virtues in their own work on the formation of Christian character.

At the same time, Christian ethicists often decry the absence or the decline of these values in Western societies today and go on to suggest that, unless we return to the old virtues, we will go under economically; and in this they may very possibly be mistaken.

Christian ethicists usually have no great difficulty in admiring and even recommending these virtues, also in cases where they do not fully or even partially endorse the theological and philosophical presuppositions of people who evince them (such as, for instance, Latin American Pentecostals, Muslim fundamentalists, or neo-Confucian businessmen).

In September 2002, when a hundred scholars and ethicists signed a petition that read, «As Christian ethicists, we share a common moral presumption against a preemptive war on Iraq by the United States,» Elshtain was not numbered among the signatories.

Frankly, I am keenly disappointed that the policies that are grounded in this egocentric understanding of human beings are still supported by many Christian ethicists and church leaders.

The author takes issue wtih two leading Christian ethicists, Max Stackhouse and Dennis McCann.

It is written by two leading Christian ethicists, one Protestant and one Catholic: Max Stackhouse and Dennis McCann.

And most Christian ethicists would reject torture as an appropriate penalty for any offense.

It is written by two leading Christian ethicists, one Protestant and one Catholic: Max...

The separation of theology from most issues of practice was furthered by the distinction between theologians and Christian ethicists introduced into seminary faculties early in this period.

They reason that they need them because everyone else has them or because in an accident the other car will suffer more (a position that would probably not pass the test with many Christian ethicists).

Unfortunately, Christian ethicists themselves have largely ignored the issue.

In his 1984 presidential address to the Society of Christian Ethics, Tom Ogletree noted that most Christian ethicists do not see their task as that of providing moral guidance for Christian congregations.

Ironically to the extent that Christian ethicists and theologians have abandoned the church because of its suburban captivity» they too have had little that is interesting to say to our society.

Famed Christian ethicist John Howard Yoder had sexual abuse allegations circling for decades before anyone took them seriously.

He's not saying — and no Christian ethicist I know of would say — that lusting is morally the same as adultery, or similarly that anger is the moral equivalent of murder (see Matt.

Senator Moynihan rightly concedes that one's ethnicity or nationality can be a legitimate source of pride, but warns, using the words of the Christian ethicist Reinhold Niebuhr, that it can also be a form of collective egotism, potentially very destructive.8

Such churches, says Christian ethicist Lois Livezey, favor «conversation» rather than «definitive guidance.»

Striving to reconcile these diverse convictions, Christian scholars just might make what Christian ethicist Sondra Wheeler dubs the «festival of mutual recrimination» in the marriage debate a bit more constructive, even if more demanding.

But on the other hand, as a matter of course, Socrates is not an essentially religious ethicist, still less a dogmatic one, as the Christian ethicist is.

Gustafson, a leading Christian ethicist and former student of Niebuhr's at Yale, uses the occasion to scathingly attack those who have found Niebuhr's typology flawed or dangerously misleading.

I bring the conversation up because it came to mind last week when I was reading about a Christian ethicist so passionately committed to defending the (unmistakably) exceptional nature of human beings that he thinks it necessary to forbid his children any sentimental solicitude for the suffering of beasts, and to disabuse them of the least trace of the dangerous fantasy or pathetic fallacy that animals experience anything analogous to human emotions, motives, or needs; they can not really, he insists, know anxiety, grief, regret, or disappointment, and so we should never allow them to divert our sympathies or ethical longings from their proper object.

Christian ethicist Russell Moore blasted Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera for defending Matt Lauer, co-host of the Today show, whom NBC fired You are here: Home; What Now?

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I'm was reading Traci West's (a womanist ethicist at Drew University) Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women's Lives Matter.

The Colloquium is a group of Jewish and Christian theologians, ethicists, philosophers, and scholars that meets periodically to consider questions of morality, religion, and public life.

Rather, I became an ethicist because I was (and am) interested in the intellectual issues associated with the truthfulness of Christian discourse.

The question of how biblical ethics can or should be used in facing today's moral problems is a second stage which Christian and Jewish ethicists address.

Christians who are concerned with the liberation of the oppressed must listen to the voices of such ethicists; they must begin to hear the demand that we see the wrongfulness in the mistreatment of nonhuman animals — ...

I have said enough, I hope, to show why so many of us feel so immensely indebted to this layman, perhaps the greatest exemplar of the Catholic laity in the last two centuries — a master of many wisdoms, a metaphysician, a philosopher at once humane and Christian, an ethicist and philosopher of history, a political philosopher, a saintly and childlike man.

Stackhouse states his thesis about theological education with admirable clarity: «The vocation of Christian theological education is to prepare women and men to be theologians and ethicists in residence and in mission among the peoples of God in the multiple contexts around the globe.»

I was confronted by a prominent ethicist the other day who wasted no time in asking, «Is the Old Testament Christian scripture or not?»

Ethicist James B. Nelson goes much too far when he argues that «we who call ourselves Christians bear major responsibility for the problems created by the AIDS crisis....

A number of Christian theologians and ethicists have mistaken the Bible's understandable agnosticism about modern economics for some sort of countercultural radicalism.

And while the analysis that addresses these issues can be indebted to Christian tradition, the theologian who thinks about such issues may well be so innovative in relation to historic Christian reflection that his or her work on these topics is indistinguishable from that of the ecologist, the secular ethicist, or the economic theorist (cf. CNT 253).