The teaching of ethics in selected U.S. protestant theological schools
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Boyd Marshall Holliday (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Joseph E. Bryson
Abstract: The actual practice of teaching ethics in theological schools is addressed through a variety of research methods: interviews with practitioners in a selected number of exemplary Protestant schools, review of recent literature in relevant fields9 background Biblical, theological, and philosophical material. Following Alisdair Maclntyre's theory that a cultural crisis of ethics is behind the recent increase of attention in ethics teaching, various models are examined to account for how the cultural crisis might be manifested in the context of theological schools. In analysis of Biblical, theological, and philosophical materials, four contemporary trends are identified: (1) a trend toward the recovery of the Biblical roots of ethics, with their strongly covenantal character; (2) a trend toward the supplementation of ethics with philosophical concepts and tools; (3) a trend toward recovery of the Anabaptist love-ethic; and (4) a trend to regain some of the lost Kantian sense of a cultural project.
The teaching of ethics in selected U.S. protestant theological schools
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- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1986
- Subjects
- Ethics $x Study and teaching
- Theology $x Study and teaching
- Religious ethics $x Study and teaching