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Churchgoing and Christian ethics

New studies in Christian ethics

by Gill Robin.

Synopsis

Robin Gill argues that once moral communities (such as churchgoers) take centre stage in ethics - as they do in virtue ethics - then there should be a greater interest in sociological evidence about these communities. This book, first published in 1999, examines evidence gathered from social attitude surveys about church communities, in particular their views on faith, moral order and love. It shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes and behaviour. Some of their attitudes change over time, and there are a number of obvious moral disagreements between different groups of churchgoers. Nonetheless, there are broad patterns of Christian beliefs, teleology and altruism which distinguish churchgoers as a whole from non-churchgoers. However, the values, virtues, moral attitudes and behaviour of churchgoers are shared by many other people as well. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is crucial for the task of Christian ethics.

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Book Information

Copyright year 1999
ISBN-13 9780521578288
ISBN-10 0521578280
Class Copyright
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Subject RELIGION
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 287
Length of Recording 13
Shelf No. HK262