| Edition |
First paperback edition 1997. |
| Description |
x, 292 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Oxford studies in theological ethics |
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Oxford studies in theological ethics.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I: Kantian Ethics -- Kant and the Moral Demand -- Kant's Ethical Theory ; A Contemporary Kantian ; The Christian Seriousness of Kant -- God's Supplement -- Revelation ; Kant's Account of God's Work on our Behalf ; Kant's Failure -- Moral Faith -- What is the Highest Good? ; Is the Highest Good Coherent? ; The Idea of Self-Rewarding Morality ; The Highest Good in the Less Ambitious Sense ; The Antithesis ; Moral Faith -- Part II: Human Limits -- Puffing up the Capacity -- Utilitarianism and the Moral Demand ; A Utilitarian Reply ; The Trouble with Optimism ; The Optimist's Response ; The Final Word -- Centrality -- The Objection ; The Minimalist View ; The Naturalist View ; The Rationalist View -- Reducing the Demand -- Four Feminist Objections ; A Fifth Objection ; The Moral Demand is not Reduced -- Subsitutes for God's Assistance -- Social Evolution ; The Machinery of the Rational Bargain ; Evolution and the Moral Emotions -- Part III: God's Assistance -- Repentance -- The Ethical Life ; The Religious Life -- Forgivenses -- The Burden of the Past ; Undoing the Past ; Forgiveness and Mutuality ; The Offender's Position ; The Victim's Position -- God's Assistance -- Atonement ; Justification ; Sanctification. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [276]-285) and indexes. |
| Subject |
Christian ethics.
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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 -- Ethics.
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Ethics, Modern.
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Human beings.
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Grace (Theology)
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Theological anthropology -- Christianity.
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Apologetics.
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| ISBN |
0198269579 paperback |
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