Gene Outka
Biographic Data
| ID | 1131665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gene Outka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gene |
| FAMILY NAME | Outka |
| SIGNATURE | OUTKA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Islamic Ethics of Life
Faith
This article asks: how specifically do features of God's keeping faith and features of our keeping faith differ and correspond? That is, how do we get their interplay right? It analyzes four claims about faith: faith is based on God's actions ad extra, faith is based on a distinction between creator and creature, faith disallows ‘tempting God’, and faith disallows ‘playing God
Prospects for a Common Morality
This volume centres on debates about how far moral judgements 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 …
The Values We Share
tain moral principles, such as respect for human rights, we also witness major theoretical challenge to the notion that anything can ever be universal. Wisely, the editors of Prospects for Common Morality choose to address this paradox tentatively. Their aim is not to establish what they call a party line on either the postmodern or the human rights side. It is rather to ask some of our more thoughtful philosophers and theologians to reflect on t…
Prospects for a Common Morality
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 a…
Equality and the Fate of Theism in Modern Culture
Character, Vision, and Narrative
Ethical Reflections
Agape
This study is the most comprehensive account to date of modern treatments of the love commandment. Gene Outka examines the literature on agape from Nygren’s Agape and Eros in 1930. Both Roman Catholic and Protestant writings are considered, including those of D’Arcy, Niebuhr, Ramsey, Tillich, and above all, Karl Barth. The first seven chapters focus on the principal treatments in the theological literature as they relate to major topics in ethica…
Prospects for a Common Morality
This volume centres on debates about how far moral judgements 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 …
Agape
This study is the most comprehensive account to date of modern treatments of the love commandment. Gene Outka examines the literature on agape from Nygren’s Agape and Eros in 1930. Both Roman Catholic and Protestant writings are considered, including those of D’Arcy, Niebuhr, Ramsey, Tillich, and above all, Karl Barth. The first seven chapters focus on the principal treatments in the theological literature as they relate to major topics in ethica…
Character, Vision, and Narrative
Ethical Reflections
Equality and the Fate of Theism in Modern Culture
Prospects for a Common Morality
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 a…
The Values We Share
tain moral principles, such as respect for human rights, we also witness major theoretical challenge to the notion that anything can ever be universal. Wisely, the editors of Prospects for Common Morality choose to address this paradox tentatively. Their aim is not to establish what they call a party line on either the postmodern or the human rights side. It is rather to ask some of our more thoughtful philosophers and theologians to reflect on t…
Prospects for a Common Morality
This volume centres on debates about how far moral judgements 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 …
Faith
This article asks: how specifically do features of God's keeping faith and features of our keeping faith differ and correspond? That is, how do we get their interplay right? It analyzes four claims about faith: faith is based on God's actions ad extra, faith is based on a distinction between creator and creature, faith disallows ‘tempting God’, and faith disallows ‘playing God
Islamic Ethics of Life
Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works) · Download (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethics (2 works) · Morality (2 works)