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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 December 2009
      19 August 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511605635
      9780521570589
      9780521578288
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511605635
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.435kg, 292 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.37kg, 292 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Religious Ethics, Ethics, Religion, Philosophy
      Series:
      New Studies in Christian Ethics (15)
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    Subjects:
    Religious Ethics, Ethics, Religion, Philosophy
    Series:
    New Studies in Christian Ethics (15)
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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.

    Reviews

    ‘Churchgoing and Christian Ethics is both original and elegant in its argument.’

    Source: Journal of Religion

    ‘Gill’s challenge to vague and idealized accounts of Christian communities, driven by theological presuppositions, is very welcome …’.

    Source: Scottish Journal of Theology

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