Product Description

The new edition of this classic textbook focuses more strongly on current debates and expands on a variety of topics, with contributions on natural law approaches, virtue ethics in a pluralistic/postmodern world, the influential notion of the 'common good', just war theory, genetics and biotechnology, euthanasia and global justice, and sex and gender issues. Important modern contributions to Christian ethics are set out alongside classic texts from Augustine, Aquinas and Luther. The modern writers range from thinkers such as Niebuhr, Barth and Bonhoeffer to recent liberation and Third World theologians. Each series of texts is systematically analysed. The differing ethical positions and arguments are examined together with the social and historical factors which shaped them.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #162063 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

Review
"'An exemplary textbook which outshines its competitors past and present, and which will rapidly be acknowledged as an indispensable tool for those taking up the study of Christian ethics...the Textbook is an ingenious tour de force, the intellectual organisation of a rich body of ethical material from the Early Church to the present day.'"

About the Author
Robin Gill is the Michael Ramsay Professor of Modern Theology at the University of Kent, UK.