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Churchgoing and Christian Ethics

Churchgoing and Christian Ethics

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  • Author: Robin Gill, University of Kent, Canterbury
  • Date Published: September 1999
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521578288

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  • Robin Gill argues that moral communities should take center stage in ethics. This book examines recent evidence about church communities in relation to faith, moral order and love, and shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes, beliefs and behavior. Some attitudes change over time, and there are several moral disagreements among different groups of churchgoers. Moreover, their values and behavior are shared by many nonchurchgoers also. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is crucial for the task of Christian ethics.

    • 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

    '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: September 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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    Robin Gill, University of Kent, Canterbury

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