The Politics of Practical Reason

by Mark Ryan

Book Overview

Ought we conceive of theological ethics as an activity that draws from a community's vision of human goodness and that has implications for the kind of person each of us is to be? Or, can students of the discipline map the ethical implications of what Christians confess about God, themselves, and the world while remaining indifferent to these claims? Habituated by modern moral theories such as consequentialism and deontology, Mark Ryan argues, we...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160899466X
• ISBN13: 9781608994663
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"