Karl Barth's Moral Thought by McKenny, Gerald

Karl Barth's Moral Thought (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780192845528)

Vendor: Gerald McKenny
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Format: Hardcover
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Karl Barth's Moral Thought by McKenny, Gerald

Karl Barth's Moral Thought

$90.00
Karl Barth's Moral Thought by McKenny, Gerald

Karl Barth's Moral Thought

$90.00
Format: Hardcover
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Does theological ethics articulate moral norms with the assistance of moral philosophy? Or does it leave that task to moral philosophy alone while it describes a distinctively Christian way of acting or form of life? These questions lie at the very heart of theological ethics as a discipline. Karl Barth's theological ethics makes a strong case for the first alternative. Karl Barth's Moral Thought follows Barth's efforts to present God's grace as a moral norm in his treatments of divine commands, moral reasoning, responsibility, and agency. It shows how Barth's conviction that grace is the norm of human action generates problems for his ethics at nearly every turn, as it involves a moral good that confronts human beings from outside rather than perfecting them as the kind of creature they are. Yet it defends Barth's insistence on the right of theology to articulate moral norms, and it shows how Barth may lead theological ethics to exercise that right in a more compelling way than he did.

Author: Gerald McKenny
ISBN-10: 0192845527
ISBN-13: 9780192845528
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 10/26/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.80w x 0.80d
By Gerald McKenny
By Gerald McKenny
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Gerald McKenny, University of Notre Dame

Gerald McKenny is Walter Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. His publications include Biotechnology, Human Nature, and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2018), The Analogy of Grace: Karl Barth's Moral Theology (Oxford University Press, 2010), and To Relieve the Human Condition: Bioethics, Technology, and the Body (SUNY Press, 1997).

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