ISBN The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics book English Hardcover 558 pages

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics offers the most authoritative and compelling guide to the discipline. Thirty of the world's most distinguished specialists provide new essays in order to offer a survey of and analysis of the subject. Ethics is first placed firmly within the Christian theological tradition from which thought and action can never be neatly separated. Four sections then explore the sources of Christian moral knowledge (scripture divine commands church tradition reason and natural law experience); the structure of the Christian life (vocation virtue rules responsibility death); the spirit of the Christian life (faith hope love); and the spheres of the Christian life (government family economy culture church). The final section of the Handbook contains essays discussing and evaluating certain scholarly works that have in the past influentially offered (different) visions of how best to structure the field of theological ethics. Unlike any other book now available the Handbook's unrivalled breadth and depth make it the definitive reference work for all students and academics who want to explore more fully essential topics in Christian ethics.