Churchgoing and Christian Ethics
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Part of New Studies in Christian Ethics
- Author: Robin Gill, University of Kent, Canterbury
- Date Published: August 1999
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521578288
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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.
Read more- Examines recent social attitude surveys to compare the views of churchgoing and non-churchgoing communities, focusing on faith, moral order and love
- Concludes that whether or not someone goes to church regularly is a good indicator of a whole range of beliefs, moral attitudes and behaviour
- Considers the implications of churchgoing for ethics in a postmodern age
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'Churchgoing and Christian Ethics is both original and elegant in its argument.' Journal of Religion
See more reviews'Gill's challenge to vague and idealized accounts of Christian communities, driven by theological presuppositions, is very welcome …'. Scottish Journal of Theology
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- Date Published: August 1999
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521578288
- length: 292 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.37kg
- contains: 12 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
List of tables
Introduction
Part I. The Theoretical Context:
1. Churchgoing and the bias of virtue ethicists
2. Churchgoing and the bias of sociologists
3. Four theories of churchgoing
Part II. The Evidence:
4. The British Household Panel survey
5. Faith in British social attitudes surveys
6. Moral order in British social attitudes surveys
7. Love in British social attitudes surveys
Part III. The Implications:
8. Churchgoing and Christian identity
9. Churches and moral disagreement
Postscript
Works cited
Index.
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