Faith and Faithfulness: Basic Themes in Christian Ethics - Hardcover

Meilaender, Gilbert C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0268009821 ISBN 13: 9780268009823

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991

Synopsis

In Faith and Faithfulness Gilbert C. Meilaender suggests that Christians should not try to develop an autonomous ethic; neither, however, need they deny the common ground that exists with those who stand in other traditions. He then discusses human nature as creaturely, sinful, and justified--using these categories to think about such topics as the relation of humans to their environment, the meaning of personhood, and the meaning of original sin.

About this title

About the Author

Gilbert Meilaender holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University, Indiana. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Christian Ethics, as an Associate Editor of Religious Studies Review, and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics. He is also a Fellow of the Hastings Center and was a member of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2009. He is a Distinguished Fellow with The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity. He is the author of Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics (Notre Dame Press, 1981), The Theory and Practice of Virtue (Notre Dame Press, 1984), and Faith and Faithfulness: Basic Themes in Christian Ethics (Notre Dame Press, 1991).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0268009821
• ISBN 13: 9780268009823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224