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Dependent Rational Animals

Author	: Alasdair C. MacIntyre
Publisher	: Open Court Publishing
Release Date	: 1999
ISBN 10	: 9780812694529
Pages	: 158 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (945 users)

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Download or read book Dependent Rational Animals written by Alasdair C. MacIntyre and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the author of "After Virtue, " to flourish, humans need to develop virtues of independent thought and acknowledged social dependence. This book presents the moral philosopher's comparison of humans to other animals and his exploration of the impact of these virtues.

Divine Grace and Emerging Creation

Author	: Thomas Jay Oord
Publisher	: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date	: 2009-05-01
ISBN 10	: 9781606082874
Pages	: 244 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (828 users)

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Download or read book Divine Grace and Emerging Creation written by Thomas Jay Oord and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wesleyans and Wesleyan theology have long been interested in the sciences. John Wesley kept abreast of scientific developments in his own day, and he engaged science in his theological construction. Divine Grace and Emerging Creation offers explorations by contemporary scholars into the themes and issues pertinent to contemporary science and Wesleyan Theology. In addition to groundbreaking research by leading Wesleyan theologians, Jÿrgen Moltmann contributes an essay. Moltmann's work derives from his keynote address at the joint Wesleyan Theological Society and Society for Pentecostal Studies meeting on science and theology at Duke University. Other contributions address key contemporary themes in theology and science, including evolution, ecology, neurology, emergence theory, intelligent design, scientific and theological method, and biblical cosmology. John Wesley's own approach to science, explored by many contributors, offers insights for how two of humanity's central concerns--science and theology--can now be understood in fruitful and complementary ways.

Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?

Author	: Nancey Murphy
Publisher	: OUP Oxford
Release Date	: 2007-06-14
ISBN 10	: 9780191526916
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (269 users)

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Download or read book Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? written by Nancey Murphy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-06-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If humans are purely physical, and if it is the brain that does the work formerly assigned to the mind or soul, then how can it fail to be the case that all of our thoughts and actions are determined by the laws of neurobiology? If this is the case, then free will, moral responsibility, and, indeed, reason itself would appear to be in jeopardy. Nancey Murphy and Warren S. Brown here defend a non-reductive version of physicalism whereby humans are (sometimes) the authors of their own thoughts and actions. Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? brings together insights from both philosophy and the cognitive neurosciences to defeat neurobiological reductionism. One resource is a 'post-Cartesian' account of mind as essentially embodied and constituted by action-feedback-evaluation-action loops in the environment, and 'scaffolded' by cultural resources. Another is a non-mysterious account of downward (mental) causation explained in terms of a complex, higher-order system exercising constraints on lower-level causal processes. These resources are intrinsically related: the embeddedness of brain events in action-feedback loops is the key to their mentality, and those broader systems have causal effects on the brain itself. With these resources Murphy and Brown take on two problems in philosophy of mind: a response to the charges that physicalists cannot account for the meaningfulness of language nor the causal efficacy of the mental qua mental. Solutions to these problems are a prerequisite to addressing the central problem of the book: how can biological organisms be free and morally responsible? The authors argue that the free-will problem is badly framed if it is put in terms of neurobiological determinism; the real issue is neurobiological reductionism. If it is indeed possible to make sense of the notion of downward causation, then the relevant question is whether humans exert downward causation over some of their own parts and processes. If all organisms do this to some extent, what needs to be added to this animalian flexibility to constitute free and responsible action? The keys are sophisticated language and hierarchically ordered cognitive processes allowing (mature) humans to evaluate their own actions, motives, goals, and rational and moral principles.

A Deeper Vision

Author	: Robert Royal
Publisher	: Ignatius Press
Release Date	: 2015-10-30
ISBN 10	: 9781586179908
Pages	: 621 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (799 users)

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Download or read book A Deeper Vision written by Robert Royal and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging and ambitious volume, Robert Royal, a prominent participant for many years in debates about religion and contemporary life, offers a comprehensive and balanced appraisal of the Catholic intellectual tradition in the twentieth century. The Catholic Church values both Faith and Reason, and Catholicism has given risen to extraordinary ideas and whole schools of remarkable thought, not just in the distant past but throughout the troubled decades of the twentieth century. Royal presents in a single volume a sweeping but readable account of how Catholic thinking developed in philosophy, theology, Scripture studies, culture, literature, and much more in the twentieth century. This involves great figures, recognized as such both inside and outside the Church, such as Jacques Maritain, Bernard Lonergan, Joseph Pieper, Edith Stein, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Romano Guardini, Karl Rahner, Henri du Lubac, Karol Wojtyla, Joseph Ratzinger, Hans Urs von Balthasar,Charles Peguy, Paul Claudel, George Bernanos, Francois Mauriac, G. K. Chesterton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christopher Dawson, Graham Greene, Sigrid Undset, J. R. R. Tolkien, Czeslaw Milosz, and many more. Royal argues that without rigorous thought, Catholicism – however welcoming and nourishing it might be – would become something like a doctor with a good bedside manner, but who knows little medicine. It has always been the aspiration of the Catholic tradition to unite emotion and intellect, action and contemplation. But unless we know what the tradition has already produced – especially in the work of the great figures of the recent past – we will not be able to answer the challenges that the modern world poses, or even properly recognize the true questions we face. This is a reflective, non-polemical work that brings together various strands of Catholic thought in the twentieth century. A comprehensive guide to the recent past - and the future.

The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism

Author	: Thaddeus J. Kozinski
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Release Date	: 2012-07-10
ISBN 10	: 9780739141700
Pages	: 291 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (417 users)

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Download or read book The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism written by Thaddeus J. Kozinski and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary political philosophy, there is much debate over how to maintain a public order in pluralistic democracies in which citizens hold radically different religious views. The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism deals with this theoretically and practically difficult issue by examining three of the most influential figures of religious pluralism theory: John Rawls, Jacques Maritain, and Alasdair MacIntyre. Drawing on a diverse number of sources, Kozinski addresses the flaws in each philosopher's views and shows that the only philosophically defensible end of any overlapping consensus political order must be the eradication of the ideological pluralism that makes it necessary. In other words, a pluralistic society should have as its primary political aim to create the political conditions for the communal discovery and political establishment of that unifying tradition within which political justice can most effectively be obtained. Kozinski's analysis, though exhaustive and rigorous, still remains accessible and engaging, even for a reader unversed in the works of Rawls, Maritain, and MacIntyre. Interdisciplinary and multi-thematic in nature, it will appeal to anyone interested in the intersection of religion, politics, and culture.

Theological Ethics Through a Multispecies Lens

Author	: Celia E. Deane-Drummond
Publisher	: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date	: 2019-10-17
ISBN 10	: 9780198843344
Pages	: 298 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (433 users)

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Download or read book Theological Ethics Through a Multispecies Lens written by Celia E. Deane-Drummond and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two driving questions informing this book. The first is where does our moral life come from? It presupposes that considering morality broadly is inadequate. Instead, different aspects need to be teased apart. It is not sufficient to assume that different virtues are bolted onto a vicious animality, red in tooth and claw. Nature and culture have interlaced histories. By weaving in evolutionary theories and debates on the evolution of compassion, justice and wisdom, it showa a richer account of who we are as moral agents. The second driving question concerns our relationships with animals. Deane-Drummond argues for a complex community-based multispecies approach. Hence, rather than extending rights, a more radical approach is a holistic multispecies framework for moral action. This need not weaken individual responsibility. She intends not to develop a manual of practice, but rather to build towards an alternative philosophically informed approach to theological ethics, including animal ethics. The theological thread weaving through this account is wisdom. Wisdom has many different levels, and in the broadest sense is connected with the flow of life understood in its interconnectedness and sociality. It is profoundly theological and practical. In naming the project the evolution of wisdom Deane-Drummond makes a statement about where wisdom may have come from and its future orientation. But justice, compassion and conscience are not far behind, especially in so far as they are relevant to both individual decision-making and institutions.

The Ecumenical Edwards

Author	: Kyle C. Strobel
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2016-03-03
ISBN 10	: 9781317034575
Pages	: 270 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (345 users)

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Download or read book The Ecumenical Edwards written by Kyle C. Strobel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Edwards is considered by many to be America’s greatest theologian. Many have lauded him as one of the great theologians in church history. This book brings together major Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant theologians to assess Edwards’s theological acumen. Each chapter places Edwards in conversation with a thinker or a tradition over a specific theological issue.

Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 6, Special Issue 2

Author	: Miguel J. Romero
Publisher	: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date	: 2017-09-22
ISBN 10	: 9781532640315
Pages	: 262 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (43 users)

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Download or read book Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 6, Special Issue 2 written by Miguel J. Romero and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging Disability Edited by Miguel J. Romero and Mary Jo Iozzio Preface: Engaging Disability Mary Jo Iozzio and Miguel J. Romero God Bends Over Backwards to Accommodate Humankind …While the Civil Rights Acts and the Americans with Disabilities Act Require [Only] the Minimum Mary Jo Iozzio On “And Vulnerable”: Catholic Social Thought and the Social Challenges of Cognitive Disability Matthew Gaudet From Universal Precautions to Universal Design: Disclosure of Concealable Disability in the Case of HIV Mary M. Doyle Roche Disability, the Healing of Infirmity, and the Theological Virtue of Hope: A Thomistic Approach Paul Gondreau Seventeenth-Century Casuistry Regarding Persons with Disabilities: Antonino Diana’s Tract “On the Mute, Deaf, and Blind” Julia A. Fleming Blessed Silence: Explorations in Christian Contemplation and Hearing Loss Jana Bennett Becoming Friends: Ethics in Friendship and in Doing Theology Lorraine Cuddeback The Slow Journey Towards Beatitude: Disability in L’Arche, and Staying Human in High-Speed Society Jason Reimer Greig The Goodness and Beauty of Our Fragile Flesh: Moral Theologians and Our Engagement With ‘Disability’ Miguel J. Romero

Before Virtue

Author	: Jonathan J. Sanford
Publisher	: CUA Press
Release Date	: 2015
ISBN 10	: 9780813227399
Pages	: 294 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (273 users)

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Download or read book Before Virtue written by Jonathan J. Sanford and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Sanford finds that despite the common origins of contemporary virtue ethics in Anscombe, the literature varies widely not just in its scope but in its basic commitments. What exactly is contemporary virtue ethics? In Before Virtue, Sanford develops strategies for describing contemporary virtue ethics accurately. He then assesses contemporary virtue approaches by the Anscombean dual standard which inspired them: the degree to which they avoid the pitfalls of modern moral philosophy and the extent to which they exemplify a successful recovery of an Aristotelian approach to ethics.

Rational Animals

Author	: Mark Okrent
Publisher	: Ohio University Press
Release Date	: 2007
ISBN 10	: 9780821417430
Pages	: 241 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (174 users)

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Download or read book Rational Animals written by Mark Okrent and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Minding the Web

Author	: Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher	: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date	: 2018-11-06
ISBN 10	: 9781532650055
Pages	: 335 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book Minding the Web written by Stanley Hauerwas and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over forty years Stanley Hauerwas has been writing theology that matters. In this new collection of essays, lectures, and sermons, Hauerwas continues his life’s work of exploring the theological web, discovering and recovering the connections necessary for the church to bear faithful witness to Christ in our complex and changing times. Hauerwas enters into conversation with a diverse array of interlocutors as he brings new insights to bear on matters theological, delves into university matters, demonstrates how lives matter, and continues in his passionate commitment to the matter of preaching. Essays by Robert Dean illumine the connections that have made Hauerwas’s theological web-slinging so significant and demonstrate why Hauerwas’s sermons have a crucial role to play in the recovery of a gospel-shaped homiletical imagination.

Dying and the Virtues

Author	: Matthew Levering
Publisher	: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date	: 2018-01-23
ISBN 10	: 9781467449571
Pages	: 451 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (495 users)

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Download or read book Dying and the Virtues written by Matthew Levering and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich book Matthew Levering explores nine key virtues that we need to die (and live) well: love, hope, faith, penitence, gratitude, solidarity, humility, surrender, and courage. Retrieving and engaging a variety of biblical, theological, historical, and medical resources, Levering journeys through the various stages and challenges of the dying process, beginning with the fear of annihilation and continuing through repentance and gratitude, suffering and hope, before arriving finally at the courage needed to say goodbye to one’s familiar world. Grounded in careful readings of Scripture, the theological tradition, and contemporary culture, Dying and the Virtues comprehensively and beautifully shows how these nine virtues effectively unite us with God, the One who alone can conquer death.

The Primacy of God: The Virtue of Religion in Catholic Theology

Author	: R. Jared Staudt
Publisher	: Emmaus Academic
Release Date	: 2022-02-08
ISBN 10	: 9781645851691
Pages	: 424 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (516 users)

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Download or read book The Primacy of God: The Virtue of Religion in Catholic Theology written by R. Jared Staudt and published by Emmaus Academic. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To contemporary minds, the notion of justice toward God is seldom considered and often foreign. Far more discussed is how God might either undermine or motivate social justice. The Primacy of God by R. Jared Staudt offers an important intervention. With the aid of St. Thomas Aquinas, Staudt argues that it is vital for both contemporary society and contemporary Catholic theology to return to the traditional view of God as the one to whom all human and social action must be ordered and to recover the virtue of religion as the virtue which orders all other virtues to God. Not only does Staudt helpfully remind readers of the ancient philosophical and biblical notion of worship as a dictate of the natural law, he also illuminates the way in which Christian liturgy, as an enactment of Christ’s high priesthood, is the great fulfillment of natural and biblical worship. Accordingly, Staudt secures religion as essential for the virtue of love. This brings Staudt to criticize modern theologians like Karl Barth, who claimed that religion is inherently idolatrous, as well as Karl Rahner, who claimed that love of neighbor is the highest moral act. Staudt also considers the question of religious truth in light of the plurality of religions, soliciting the assistance of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Joseph Ratzinger, as well as the way in which religion relates to the development of culture, engaging the great Catholic social historian Christopher Dawson. The Primacy of God is a much-needed work that ought to set the agenda for Catholic theology in the twenty-first century.

The Physical Nature of Christian Life

Author	: Warren S. Brown
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2012-06-18
ISBN 10	: 9780521515931
Pages	: 191 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (159 users)

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Download or read book The Physical Nature of Christian Life written by Warren S. Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the implications of recent insights in modern neuroscience that attribute mental capacities often ascribed to a disembodied soul instead to the functions of the brain and body in collaboration with social experience. It explores how this insight changes the traditional "care of souls," encouraging more attention to fostering spiritual growth through a social and communal focus.

Pedagogy of Entanglement

Author	: Koen Rens Wessels
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Release Date	: 2022-10-28
ISBN 10	: 9783031157875
Pages	: 99 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (578 users)

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Download or read book Pedagogy of Entanglement written by Koen Rens Wessels and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hyperconnected, dynamic world we live in, permeated by profound challenges and transformations, the awareness of complexity is unequivocally on the rise. This monograph argues that it is high time that our educational institutions and pedagogical approaches come to mirror this growing awareness, to assist and inspire humanity to embrace complexity, to learn to move within it with increasing sensitivity and wisdom. Doing so is necessary, for if there is one thing that the years behind us bear witness of, it is that the tendency and attempt to simplify, separate, control, and indeed exploit has – as the dark side of the advancements of modern life – brought upon us unprecedented ecological and humanitarian crises. Schools, notably, are not closed spaces separated from society but open places within society, and as such they are inevitably complicit in the (re)shaping of our shared world. This book, therefore, proposes an ambitious pedagogical agenda. Specifically, it explores the relational ontological premise of entanglement in the context of pedagogical theory, raising the question of how, as teachers, we might meaningfully and responsibly engage with the myriad ways in which students are simultaneously shaped-by and shapers-of contemporary societal challenges. In close collaboration with twelve teachers as co-researchers, the book offers six ''helpful perspectives'' for teachers seeking to embrace such complexity in their own practices, referred to as: (1) entanglement-orientedness, (2) entanglement-awareness, (3) hopeful action, (4) inquiry within entangled phenomena, (5) practicing perceptiveness, and (6) practicing integrity.

Living with Other Beings

Author	: Anders Melin
Publisher	: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date	: 2013
ISBN 10	: 9783643904201
Pages	: 175 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (42 users)

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Download or read book Living with Other Beings written by Anders Melin and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concern for rare species has been an important part of environmental activism since the first environmental movement began in the 19th century. Now, the protection of rare species is a part of the political goal to preserve biodiversity. This book discusses ethical issues connected with the protection of rare species from a virtue-ethical perspective. It explores the following two questions: What constitutes a good human life together with other species? How can this be realized? The book takes account of both Aristotelian and Christian virtue ethics. (Series: Studies in Religion and the Environment / Studien zur Religion und Umwelt - Vol. 9)

Alasdair MacIntyre's Views and Biological Ethics

Author	: Sherel Jeevan Joseph Mendonsa
Publisher	: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date	: 2022-11-29
ISBN 10	: 9781527591318
Pages	: 261 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (913 users)

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Download or read book Alasdair MacIntyre's Views and Biological Ethics written by Sherel Jeevan Joseph Mendonsa and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most fundamental questions which moral philosophers have been grappling with include: What makes us moral beings? Is morality a product of culture or nature or both? Are ethical norms and principles universal and unchanging or are they relative, being rooted in specific socio-political and historical contexts? Can ethical conclusions be derived from descriptive statements? This book addresses these and similar questions through a comparative study between Alasdair MacIntyre’s views and biological ethics. It discusses how both MacIntyre’s views and biological ethics highlight the importance of human biology for human morality. Based on this discussion, the book proposes that both the rational and the biological (including the emotional) dimensions of humans have to be considered in order to understand the complex and multi-layered phenomenon of human morality. As such, it will prove to be a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of moral philosophy, especially those interested in studying the biological approach toward ethics, Thomistic Aristotelian ethics and metaethics.