Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, Volume 1: Theology and Ethics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226311111)

"Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective will surprise some, shock others, and unleash a flood of speculation about what has happened to James Gustafson. The answer quite simply is nothing has happened to Gustafson except that he has now turned his attention to developing his constructive theological position, and we should all be very glad. . . . In this, the first of two volumes, Gustafson displays his colors as a constructive theologian, and they are indeed brilliant and splendid. . . . Though Gustafson is a theologian who works in the Christian tradition, he reminds us that the God Christians worship is not merely the Christian God. For Gustafson the kind of God who is the object of the theologians's reflection eludes or surpasses the inevitably confessional activity of Christian theological reflection. Thus Gustafson, the constructive theologian, is also Gustafson the revisionist theologian who takes as his task nothing less than challenging the anthropocentrism that he alleges characterizes mainstream Western Christian theology."-Stanley Hauerwas, Journal of Religion


Author: James M. Gustafson
ISBN-10: 0226311112
ISBN-13: 9780226311111
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/1983
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.00w x 0.76d