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The Moral Quest: Foundations of Christian Ethics
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 291
EAN: 9780830815685
ISBN: 0830815686
Label: InterVarsity Press
Manufacturer: InterVarsity Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 379
Publication Date: 2000-12
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Studio: InterVarsity Press
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Voted one of Christianity Today's 1998 Books of the Year!What is ethics?Why should Christians care?Beginning with these basic questions, Stanley Grenz masterfully leads his readers into a theological engagement with moral inquiry. In The Moral Quest he sets forth the basics of ethics, considers the role and methods of Christian ethics in particular, and examines the ethicalapproaches of the Old Testament, the Gospels and Paul. He introduces the foundational theological ethics of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Luther and the Reformers. And he concludes with an evenhanded discussion of modern and contemporary Christian ethicists, including Albert Ritschl, Walter Rauschenbusch, Karl Barth, James Gustafson, Paul Ramsey, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King Jr., Gustavo Guti and eacute;rrez, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Stanley Hauerwas, Carl F. H. Henry and Oliver O'Donovan.Clear, concise, and well apprised of relevant literature, Grenz (a theologian recognized for the excellence of his own theological and ethical work) provides in this book a first-rate introduction to Christian ethics. The Moral Quest will well serve students, pastors and interested laypersons alike.
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Rating:  - Mirroring God's Love
The author advocates for an ethics centered on human beings mirroring God's love, drawing themes from Christian thinkers such as St. Augustine and Paul Ramsey. Love is the self-giving agape of the New Testament writings, infused with the emotional content found in other forms of love. This is an excellent survey of ethics, written from an evangelical perspective, covering the topic from the ancient Greeks to a variety of contemporary ethicists.
I wish the book had addressed the ambiguity ... Read More
Rating:  - Relational theology at its finest
Grenz is at his best with this treasure of a book. His emphasis on relational and covenantal theology, the importance of community, love as the character of God forming the basis for Christian ethics, and the use of narrative as an effective approach to address post modernism are not only enlightening, but also practical. Further, Grenz provides a brief history of the Greco ethical tradition and its influence on various Christian theologians, tracing that influence from the patristic period to contemporary ... Read More
Rating: - Fantastic Christian book on ethics and virtues
Stanley Grenz declares that he began as a professor of theology, but somehow has gotten "sucked into" teaching ethics. He is at Regents College currently and teaches both theology and ethics.
This book is solidly based on God's word and theology, and reflects on the development of morality, virtues, and ethics (after a brief introduction on why we should look at ethics), as it first arises from the Greek tradition. Various terminology are introduced, like an "ethic of being" rather ... Read More
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