Churchgoing and Christian ethics / / Robin Gill

• Autore: Gill Robin
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 241/.0941
• Soggetto topico: Christian ethics - Great Britain - Public opinion; Christians - Great Britain - Attitudes; Church attendance - Great Britain; Public opinion - Great Britain
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-273) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminaries; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One: The theoretical Context; Churchgoing and the bias of virtue ethicists; Churchgoing and the bias of sociologists; Four theories of churchgoing; Part Two: The Evidence; The British Household Panel Survey; Faith in British Social Attitudes surveys; Moral order in British Social Attitudes surveys; Love in British Social Attitudes survey; Part Three: The Implications; Churchgoing and Christian identity; Churches and moral disagreement; Postscript; Works cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Robin Gill argues that once moral communities (such as churchgoers) take centre stage in ethics - as they do in virtue ethics - then there should be a greater interest in sociological evidence about these communities. This book, first published in 1999, examines evidence gathered from social attitude surveys about church communities, in particular their views on faith, moral order and love. It shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes and behaviour. Some of their attitudes change over time, and there are a number of obvious moral disagreements between different groups of churchgoers. Nonetheless, there are broad patterns of Christian beliefs, teleology and altruism which distinguish churchgoers as a whole from non-churchgoers. However, the values, virtues, moral attitudes and behaviour of churchgoers are shared by many other people as well. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is crucial for the task of Christian ethics.
• Altri titoli varianti: Churchgoing & Christian Ethics
• Titolo autorizzato: Churchgoing and christian ethics
• ISBN: 1-107-11337-7; 0-511-00774-4; 1-280-42915-1; 0-511-17188-9; 0-511-14942-5; 0-511-60563-3; 0-511-30965-1; 0-511-05362-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778867603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New studies in Christian ethics. ; ; 15.