Christians among the Virtues: Theological Conversations with Ancient and Modern Ethics

by Charles Pinches and Stanley Hauerwas

Book Overview

Christians among the Virtues investigates the distinctiveness of virtues as illuminated by Christian practice, using a discussion of Aristotle's ethics together with the work of significant contemporary scholars such as Alasdair MacIntyre and Martha Nussbaum. Hauerwas and Pinches converse with, learn from, and also critically engage powerful and explicitly non-Christian accounts of virtues, and then form a specifically Christian account of certain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268008191
• ISBN13: 9780268008192
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"