Description |
1 online resource (238 pages) |
Contents |
The sources. Ethics and the word of God ; Virtues, practices, and discipleship ; The analogical imagination -- Christian transformation. Perception ; Correcting perception ; Emotions and dispositions ; Dispositions and discernment ; Identity and the Lord's Supper |
Summary |
What does Jesus have to do with ethics? There are two brief answers given by believers: everything and not much. While evangelical or fundamentalist Christians would find authoritative guidance in the words and commands of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament, many mainstream Christian ethicists would say that Jesus is too concrete or narrowly particular to have any direct import for ethics. In this book, Williams Spohn takes a middle way, showing how Jesus is the concrete universal of Christian ethics. By forming a bridge from the lives of contemporary Christians to the words and deeds of Je |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Jesus Christ -- Ethics.
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SUBJECT |
Jesus Christ fast |
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Christian ethics.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Ethics.
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Christian ethics
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Ethics
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Nieuwe Testament.
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Christelijke ethiek.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781441190673 |
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1441190678 |
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9781283207669 |
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1283207664 |
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