Books
Prospects for a common morality - Gene Outka, editor
Call Number: BJ1012 P76 1993
ISBN/ISSN: 0691020930
This volume centers on debates about how far moral judgments bind across traditions and epochs. Nowadays such debates appear especially volatile, both in popular culture and intellectual discourse: although there is increasing agreement that the moral and political criteria invoked in human rights documents possess cross-cultural force, many modern and postmodern developments erode confidence in moral appeals that go beyond a local consensus or apply outside a particular community. Often the point of departure for discussion is the Enlightenment paradigm of a common morality, in which it is assumed that certain unchanging beliefs inhere in the structure of human reason. Whereas some thinkers continue to defend this paradigm, others modify it in diverse ways without abandoning entirely the attempt to address a universal audience, and still others jettison virtually all of its distinguishing features. Exhibiting a range of positions Western participants take in these debates, this volume seeks to advance the substance of the debates themselves without prejudging the outcome. Rival assessments of the Enlightenment paradigm are offered from various philosophical and theological points of view. (Amazon Book Description)
Why bother being good? : the place of God in the moral life - John Hare
Call Number: BJ1251 .H25X 2002
ISBN/ISSN: 0830826831
Does morality need God?Everyone, it seems, struggles with moral and ethical issues. On a daily basis, newspapers, television, radio and magazines feature the moral scandals of political, religious and business leaders--not to mention entertainers. Moral failure has become so common that it no longer shocks us. We wonder whether it is possible to be morally good in a largely secular society.What is the source of moral authority?Do we need God to be good?In Why Bother Being Good? John Hare explores the nature of goodness, the human condition, the role of reason and the value of community in moral development. He also shows how these relate to the Christian doctrines of atonement, justification and sanctification. With a general audience in mind, Hare carefully defines terms and uses poetry and narrative to illuminate his arguments. He writes, "If all the arguments in this book work, what I have shown is that the morality we are familiar with requires a theological background if it is going to make sense."Unique and surprisingly fresh, this book is an excellent introduction to moral philosophy. (Amazon Book Description)
The moral gap : Kantian ethics, human limits, and God’s assistance - John E. Hare
Call Number: BJ1275 H24 1996
ISBN/ISSN: 0198263813
Is morality too difficult for human beings? Kant said that it was, except with God's assistance. Contemporary moral philosophers have usually discussed the question without reference to Christian doctrine, and have either diminished the moral demand, exaggerated human moral capacity, or tried to find a substitute in nature for God's assistance. This book looks at these philosophers--from Kant and Kierkegaard to Swinburne, Russell, and R.M. Hare--and the alternative in Christianity. (Amazon Book Description)
God’s call : moral realism, God’s commands, and human autonomy - John E. Hare
Call Number: BJ1278.D58 H37X 2001
ISBN/ISSN: 0802839037
A powerful case for moral living based on the will of God. There has been a debate between modern ethicists who see moral judgments as objectively corresponding to a moral reality independent of human opinion and those who insist that moral judgments are simply expressions of our will. In this book John Hare outlines a theory that combines the merits of both views, arguing that what makes something right is that God calls us to it. Featuring original moral theory and fresh interpretations of the thought of John Duns Scotus and Immanuel Kant, GOD'S CALL develops a version of the divine command theory in ethics, defending it against objections based on human autonomy and locating it within the broader context of contemporary moral thinking. Hare’s work is valuable not only for its overview of the history of moral debate but also for its construction of a sound Christian ethic for today. (Amazon Book Description)
God and morality : a philosophical history - John E. Hare
Call Number: BJ71 .H37 2007
ISBN/ISSN: 0631236074
The world calling : the church’s witness in politics and society - Thomas W. Ogletree
Call Number: BR517 .O35 2004
ISBN/ISSN: 0664228747
Thomas Ogletree has devoted much of his career to exploring the significance of Ernst Troeltsch's seminal work, "The Social Teaching of the Christian Church." The articles in "The World Calling" use a Troeltschian lens to explore fundamental issues underlying any Christian social witness in the context of American democratic institutions. (Amazon Book Description)
Ecologies of grace : environmental ethics and Christian theology - Willis Jenkins
Call Number: BT695.5 .J464X 2008
ISBN/ISSN: 0195328515
Christianity struggles to show how living on earth matters for living with God. While people of faith increasingly seek practical ways to respond to the environmental crisis, theology has had difficulty contextualizing the crisis and interpreting the responses.
In Ecologies of Grace, Willis Jenkins presents a field-shaping introduction to Christian environmental ethics that offers resources for renewing theology. Observing how religious environmental practices often draw on concepts of grace, Jenkins maps the way Christian environmental strategies draw from traditions of salvation as they engage the problems of environmental ethics. He then uses this new map to explore afresh the ecological dimensions of Christian theology.
Jenkins first shows how Christian ethics uniquely frames environmental issues, and then how those approaches both challenge and reinhabit theological traditions. He identifies three major strategies for making environmental problems intelligible to Christian moral experience. Each one draws on a distinct pattern of grace as it adapts a secular approach to environmental ethics. The strategies of ecojustice, stewardship, and ecological spirituality make environments matter for Christian experience by drawing on patterns of sanctification, redemption, and deification.
He then confronts the problems of each of these strategies through critical reappraisals of Thomas Aquinas, Karl Barth, and Sergei Bulgakov. Each represents a soteriological tradition which Jenkins explores as an ecology of grace, letting environmental questions guide investigation into how nature becomes significant for Christian experience.
By being particularly sensitive to the ways in which environmental problems are made intelligible to Christian moral experience, Jenkins guides his readers toward a fuller understanding of Christianity and ecology. He not only makes sense of the variety of Christian environmental ethics, but by showing how environmental issues come to the heart of Christian experience, prepares fertile ground for theological renewal. (Amazon Book Description)- Agape; an ethical analysis - Gene Outka
Call Number: BV4639 .O93 1972
“Agape” is defined in this book as what a Christian exhibits when, because of his religion, he loves his neighbor as he loves himself and also loves God with all of his heart, soul, and might. The book's discussions, however, are confined to problems about neighbor love, not because they are deemed more important than problems about love of God, but because they are dealt with, in philosophical investigations conducted since 1930, in a way that the author finds likely to produce progress in the understanding of "agape". Seven of the eight chapters cover treatments of neighbor love in theological literature, mainly Anglo-American, published in recent decades, except that Kierkegaard's seminal thinking on the religious dimension of ethics is brought in repeatedly because of its special relevance as an ever-visible backdrop for twentieth-century thinking about "agape". Besides the Kierkegaard exception, there is a relaxation of the Anglo-American emphasis in that one of the seven expository and analytical chapters is devoted to Karl Barth's perspective on "agape".(Philosopher's Index Abstract) - The Love commandments : essays in Christian ethics and moral philosophy - Gene Outka
Call Number: BV4639 L665X 1992
Articles and Essays
The following is a selection of recent (last 10 years) articles and essays written in the area of ethics by Yale Divinity School faculty members.
Benzoni, Francisco. "Thomas Aquinas and Environmental Ethics: A Reconsideration of Providence and Salvation." Journal of Religion 85, no. 3 (07, 2005): 446-476.
Hare, John E. "Kant and Depravity." Philosophia Christi 9, no. 1 (01/01, 2007): 21-27.
———. "Kant on the Rational Instability of Atheism." In Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion. Bloomington: Indiana Univ Pr, 2006.
———. "Evolutionary Naturalism and Reducing the Demand of Justice." In Religion in the Liberal Polity, 74-94. Notre Dame, Ind; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; Univ of Notre Dame Pr, 2005.
Jenkins, Willis. "Episcopalians, Homosexuality, and World Mission." Anglican Theological Review 86, no. 2 (Spr, 2004): 293-316.
———. "Biodiversity and Salvation: Thomistic Roots for Environmental Ethics." Journal of Religion 83, no. 3 (07, 2003): 401-420.
———. "Ethnohomophobia?" Anglican Theological Review 82, no. 3 (Sum, 2000): 551-563.
Ogletree, Thomas W. "The Essential Unity of the Love Commands: Moving Beyond Paradox." Journal of Religious Ethics 35, no. 4 (12, 2007): 695-700.
———. "Agents and Moral Formation." In Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics, 36-44. Malden; Oxford; Carlton: Blackwell, 2005.
———. "Corporate Capitalism and the Common Good." Journal of Religious Ethics 30, no. 1; 1 (2002): 79.
Townes, Emilie M. "Response to "Social Science, Christian Ethics and Democratic Politics: Issues of Poverty and Welfare" by Mary Jo Bane." Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 21, (2001): 39-43.
———. "Searching for Paradise in a World of Theme Parks : Toward A Womanist Ethic of Care." Lexington Theological Quarterly 33, no. 3 (Fall, 1998): 131-150.
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