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Rights and Christian Ethics

Part of New Studies in Christian Ethics

  • Date Published: January 2009
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521092944

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  • Kieran Cronin aims in this book to show how a Christian perspective may have something fruitful to contribute to the language of rights. In so doing, he examines some of the complexities involved in using this language, drawing from literature in moral philosophy and jurisprudence in the process. The novelty of his approach lies in the attempt to distinguish two complementary aspects within metaethics, aspects which the author calls the 'discursive' and the 'imaginative'. Cronin regards the use of models (which are extended metaphors) as providing a bridge between these two aspects, and the imaginative metaethics which emerges is seen to be rich in possibilities for both secular and Christian understandings of rights-talk.

    • First in a new series engaging with the secular moral debate at the highest possible intellectual level
    • Makes a sophisticated theological contribution to rights-language
    • Brings together Christian ethics and moral philosophy in a fruitful way
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    • Date Published: January 2009
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521092944
    • length: 348 pages
    • dimensions: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
    • weight: 0.44kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction
    1. Metaethics - meaning and justification
    2. Initial elucidation of rights-language
    3. Conceptual scepticism and rights
    4. Moral and theological scepticism
    5. Imagination, metaethics and rights
    6. Theological imagination and rights
    7. Rights, power and covenant
    8. Theological foundations of rights-language
    Afterword: Criteria for theological/metaethical models
    Index.

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    Kieran Cronin

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