Ethics

In this text, Helen Oppenheimer discusses questions and issues relating to what we can mean by calling any creation good, human or divine. Her starting point is that creation, divine or human, involves ethical responsibility. The questions raised...

Offers a reflection on a series of ethical problems in the light of what the world's major faith traditions have to say about them. The author traces the consequences of religious views on morality by considering moral problems such as violence,...

Gathered for the Journey brings to market, a new and contemporary approach to catholic moral theology. The writers, all post Vatican II contemporaries themselves, have created a tightly knitted series of chapters, with a specific undergraduate...

Part 1 provides general orientation. Part 2 explores the religious and philosophical background. Part 3 contains a more detailed discussion of Gnosticism and Gnostics. Part 4 examines the relationship between 'Catholic' Christianity and Gnosticism.

Documents seeking to form criteria for worldwide ethical action.

Ronald Preston has been one of the few experts on social ethics with the skill to analyse contentious issues in sufficient depth to point the way towards effective action. This book includes many significant writings from the last two decades.

Presents a collection of essays focussing on the central proclamation of the Encyclical; that the truth which will set us free has come into the world and is present among us in its redeeming power. This book aims to serve a stimulus to open up...

Preface By Alison WebsterRejects Christian doctrines and metaphysics in favour of the religious consciousness which characterises human identity and abandons objective theism. Whatever one thinks of the author's views, and of the non-realist...

An account of the relationship between theology and post-modernity. For use by academics, postgraduate and advanced undergraduates across a wide range of subject areas: philosophy, literature, cultural studies, language, as well as theology and...