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by Charles Mathewes

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This accessible introduction to religious ethics focuses on the major forms of moral reasoning encompassing the three 'Abrahamic' religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
  • Draws on a range of moral issues, such as examples arising from friendship, marriage, homosexuality, lying, forgiveness and its limits, the death penalty, the environment, warfare, and the meaning of work, career, and vocation
  • Looks at both ethical reasoning and importantly, how that reasoning reveals insights into a religious tradition
  • Investigates the resources available to address common problems confronting Abrahamic faiths, and how each faith explains and defends its moral viewpoints
  • Offering concrete topics for interfaith discussions, this is a timely and insightful introduction to a fast-growing field of interest

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This accessible introduction to religious ethics focuses on the major forms of ethical reasoning encompassing the three "Abrahamic" religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It examines the ethical dimensions of these faiths, both individually and comparatively, by exploring how and what they think about a series of important issues such as friendship, marriage, homosexuality, lying, forgiveness and its limits, the death penalty, the environment, warfare, and the meaning of work, career, and vocation. In doing all of this, the book offers insight both into these particular traditions and into the common moral challenges confronting all people today.

The book pays serious attention not just to what each faith has to say about an issue, but also to how each faith explains and defends its moral viewpoints. Equal attention is given to each faith's deliberation and judgments on specific issues, the styles and modes of reasoning by which those judgments are reached, and the ways in which those judgments reveal some of these traditions' deepest convictions about God, the cosmos, and humanity.

Timely and insightful, Understanding Religious Ethics offers a powerful model of how the traditions can be understood and engaged charitably and critically - the sort of understanding and engagement that will be increasingly necessary in the twenty-first century.

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  • Title Understanding Religious Ethics
  • Author Charles Mathewes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
  • Publication date 2010-05-10
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781405133524 / 140513352X
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.7 x 0.7 in (24.13 x 17.02 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Religious
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Category Religion - Church History
  • Library of Congress subjects Religious ethics, Abrahamic religions
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009047989
  • Dewey Decimal Code 205

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About the author

Charles Mathewes is Associate Professor of Religious Ethics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Evil and the Augustinian Tradition (2001), A Theology of Public Life (2007), and several edited volumes.

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