Scripture, Tradition, and Reason in Christian Ethics Normative Dimen
How should we understand the relationship between Christian ethics and religious ethics? Among comparative, ethnographic, and normative methodologies? Between confessional and non-confessional orientations, or between theology and philosophy? This volume
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Normative Dimensions Edited by Bharat Ranganathan and Derek Alan Woodard-Lehman
Scripture, Tradition, and Reason in Christian Ethics
Bharat Ranganathan Derek Alan Woodard-Lehman Editors
Scripture, Tradition, and Reason in Christian Ethics Normative Dimensions
Editors Bharat Ranganathan Department of Philosophy Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH, USA
Derek Alan Woodard-Lehman Department of Theology and Religion University of Otago Wellington, New Zealand
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Foreword
In the pages that follow, some of today’s brightest younger scholars come together to reimagine the projects of Christian ethics for a time marked by deep pluralism and inescapable historical consciousness. These two signs of our times tend to reinforce one another: encounters with people who hold worldviews that differ from ours force us to new reflexivity; and a sense of the historicity of our own commitments opens us to think more carefully about the significance of the pluralism we encounter. These dynamics are not new. They have analogues and even direct antecedents in previous centuries. But they have intensified in the United States in recent decades. And they impinge directly on Christian ethics as it has taken shape in this country. As the editors note, pluralism and historical consciousness do not just exist in our minds. They also shape the inst
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