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Attentive Discernment
Author_William Werpehowski
Barth's Discussion
Barth's Ethics
Barth's Theological Method
Barth’s Ethics
Bonhoeffer
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christological ethical decision making
Conceptual Redescription
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Divine Command
Divine Command Ethics
divine command theory
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God Man Jesus Christ
God's Gracious Love
God's Merciful Love
God’s Gracious Love
God’s Merciful Love
Human Suffering
jesus
Joyful Love
moral deliberation
narrative theology
natural morality
Norwich's Revelations
Pious Lie
practical wisdom
Prophetic Ethos
Roman Catholic Ethics
Self-giving Love
Specific Moral Issue
Theocentric Ethic
Theological Ethics
Vice Versa
virtue ethics
Vocational Discernment
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409438755
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This critical study of Karl Barth's Christian theological ethics discusses Barth's controversial and characteristically misunderstood ethics of divine command. The surprising relation of his 'divine command ethics' to contemporary 'narrative theology' and 'virtue ethics' and specific moral themes concerning bonds between parents and children, the nature of truth telling, and the meaning of Christian love of God and neighbor are all discussed. This book reveals Barth's richness, depth, and insight, and places his work in constructive connection with salient themes in both Catholic and Protestant ethics. Attentive to the fullness of Barth's Christological vision and to the purposes and limits of his reflections on the Christian life in pursuit of the good, William Werpehowski also advances conversations in Christian ethics about the nature of practical deliberation and decision, the orientation and dispositions that embody moral faithfulness, and the question and features of 'natural morality.'
William Werpehowski is the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S Professor in Catholic Theology at Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of American Protestant Ethics and the Legacy of H. Richard Niebuhr (Georgetown, 2002), and co-editor of The Love Commandments: Christian Ethics and Moral Philosophy (Georgetown, 1992), The Essential Paul Ramsey (Yale, 1994), and The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics (Oxford, 2005).
