Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics
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Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics offers a comparative discussion of the challenges of living a moral religious life. This is illustrated with a study of two key thinkers, Bonaventure and Buddhaghosa, who influenced the development of moral thinking in Christianity and Buddhism respectively.
- Provides an important and original contribution to the comparative study and practice of religious ethics
- Moves away from a comparison of theories by discussing the shared human problem of moral weakness
- Offers an fresh approach with a comparison of the understanding of the problem of moral weakness between the two key thinkers, Bonaventure and Buddhaghosa
- Written by a highly respected academic in the dynamic and fast-growing field of comparative religious ethics
David A. Clairmont is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the co-author of American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope With Modernization and Democracy (2007).