Priorities and Christian Ethics
Part of New Studies in Christian Ethics
- Author: Garth L. Hallett, Saint Louis University, Missouri
- Date Published: November 2008
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- isbn: 9780521090858
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This book provides a full treatment of an issue which is particularly pressing: when the claims of the nearest (e.g. parents, children, spouses, friends) conflict with the claims of the neediest, as they constantly do, where should preference go? Professor Hallett focuses first on a specific, representative case, pitting the lesser need of a son against the greater need of starving strangers. He brings to bear on this single paradigm all the resources of theological and philosophical reflection - scriptures, patristic teaching, the Thomistic tradition, current debates - and from this single example he sheds light on a wide range of comparable cases, both private and public. This distinctive strategy leads to distinctive and challenging results, and at the same time helps to clarify the traditional 'order of charity' and the celebrated 'preferential option for the poor'.
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- Looks at the issue from both the private and the public policy point of view
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- Date Published: November 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521090858
- length: 220 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.29kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. A thorny question
2. Finding a focus
3. New Testament intimations
4. Patristic positions
5. The Thomistic tradition
6. Contemporary considerations
7. Comparable conflicts
Works cited
Index.
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