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  • 2 - Understanding Christian Wrestling about Ethics

  • Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine
  • Book:
    Wrestling with God
    Published online:
    02 March 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020, pp 38-69

  • Summary

    Max Weber’s famous caution about religion can also be said of one of its major traditions, Christianity. Given its symbiotic relationship to secularism and the difficulty of stating definitively what practices and ethics are essentially “Christian” versus non-Christian in the modern west, how and why should we investigate tensions in Christian ethics about violence, alterity, and justice?

  • 1 - Introduction

  • Edited by William A. Galston, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, Peter H. Hoffenberg, University of Hawaii, Manoa
  • Book:
    Poverty and Morality
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    20 September 2010, pp 1-14

  • Summary

    This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book which prompts us to wonder whether we are compelled to choose between secular and religious approaches to poverty. The book addresses questions about poverty and the poor within specific ethical traditions articulating ethical or normative theories rather than empirical claims. It provides readers with the opportunity to make comparisons between and among several secular and religious traditions, as well as to make comparisons within what are never truly homogeneous and unchanging systems of ethical thought, texts, and behavior. Addressing poverty across, not just within, national boundaries requires a better understanding of the variegated intellectual and religious traditions that have shaped our global civilization. In a modest and tentative way, the book helps to build that understanding and, in so doing, contributes to the alleviation of deprivation and want, wherever it may exist.