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Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition

Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition

Christian Ethics after MacIntyre

Edited by Nancey Murphy, Brad J. Kallenberg and Mark Theissen Nation

400 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

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Published: January 2003

ISBN 9780268043605

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Contributors to Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition use Alasdair MacIntyre’s work as a methodological guide for doing ethics in the Christian tradition. These essays are grouped in three sections: descriptions of MacIntyre’s approach to ethics as developed in After Virtue, reflections on the moral issues that come to the fore when viewing the Christian tradition from a MacIntyrean perspective, and selected essays on family, homosexuality, abortion, pacifism, feminism, business ethics, medical ethics, and economic justice.

Nancey Murphy is professor of Christian philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary and co-editor of Neuroscience and the Person, also published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Brad J. Kallenberg is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Dayton and author of Ethics as Grammar, also published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Mark Theissen Nation is associate professor of theology at Eastern Mennonite Seminary in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and co-editor of four books.

Contributors: James Wm. McClendon, Jr., Stephen E. Fowl, L. Gregory Jones, John Howard Yoder, Craig Dykstra, Rodney Clapp, Luke Timothy Johnson, Stanley Hauerwas, Grady Scott Davis, Tammy Williams, Michael Goldberg, William F. May, Stephen Long, Nancey Murphy, Mark Theissen Nation, and Brad J. Kallenberg.

“[T]his volume of essays is refreshing and helpful for understanding the relationship between moral reasoning as a community practice,... obligation of the church. The editors and essayists of Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition provide compelling answers.... This book is not only a helpful introduction to Alasdair MacIntyre, but extends his work by constructive and critical appropriations by Christian ethicists, theologians and philosophers.” —Ashland Theological Journal

“Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition is suitable for the educated, general reader and is recommended for those interested in the important renaissance of virtue ethics.” —Markets & Morality