Retrieving the Natural Law A Return to Moral First Things

Name: Retrieving the Natural Law A Return to Moral First Things
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ISBN: 9780802825940

ISBN-10: 080282594X

ISBN-13: 9780802825940

Edition: 2008

Authors: J. Daryl Charles

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Restating what all people intuit and what this means in moral, specifically bioethical, discourse is the raison d'etre for this volume. J. Daryl Charles argues that a traditional metaphysics of natural law lies at the heart of the present reconstructive project, and that a revival in natural-law thinking is of the highest priority for the Christian community as we contend in, rather than abdicate, the public square. Nowhere is this more on display than in the realm of bioethics, where the most basic moral questions - human personhood, human rights versus responsibilities, the reality of moral evil, the basis of civil society - are being debated. With his timely application of natural-law…

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List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Publication date: 4/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

J. Daryl Charles is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Taylor University, Upland, Indiana.




Introduction



Contending for Moral First Things: Christian Social Ethics and Postconsensus Culture



Natural Law and the Christian Tradition



Natural Law and the Protestant Prejudice



Moral Law, Christian Belief, and Social Ethics



Contending for Moral First Things in Ethical and Bioethical Debates: Critical Categories - Part 1



Contending for Moral First Things in Ethical and Bioethical Debates: Critical Categories - Part 2



Ethics, Bioethics, and the Natural Law - a Test Case: Euthanasia Yesterday and Today



The Natural Law and Public Morality: Second Thoughts on What Is at Stake


Bibliography


Index