Author: Timothy S. Huebner
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: studies, legal, history, south, distinctiveness, sectional, judicial, tradition, state, judges, southern
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0820332364
ISBN-13: 9780820332369

Author: John E. Colwell
Publisher: T. & T. Clark Publishers
Keywords: christian, ethics, distinctiveness, story, living
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-02
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0567087905
ISBN-13: 9780567087904

The aim of this book is to consider and set out a theological basis for Christian ethics in today’s world. Starting with an examination of our world, Colwell considers the impact of Modernism and Post-Modernism on ethics, before going on to explore the Scriptural basis for an authentic Christian ethic. He then asks how this ethic manifests itself in the Church, and considers, finally, how Christian ethics might be coherent and persuasive in contemporary society. Throughout, Colwell uses contemporary dilemmas as illustrations, and interacts with the thought of Thomas Aquinas, Karl B