Gerald McKenny
Biographic Data
| ID | 7213280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald McKenny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald |
| FAMILY NAME | McKenny |
| SIGNATURE | MCKENNY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Troeltsch Today
Ernst Troeltsch’s influential typology of church, sect, and mystical remains a useful way of classifying forms of Christian social ethics today. However, his assumptions about what it means for Christian social ethics to influence society make it difficult for his typology to recognize or explain many of the achievements of Christian social ethics since his death, including those of William Temple, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Howard Thurman. Neverth…
The Rich Young Ruler and Christian Ethics
In Christian ethics the Gospel story of the encounter of a rich young ruler with Jesus has been interpreted in two major ways: one that treats Jesus’ directive to the ruler as a counsel that goes beyond the commandments the ruler claims to have kept, and another that treats the directive as contained in the commandments and exposing his failure to keep them. I reconstruct Calvin’s version of the second interpretation, contrast it with Aquinas’s v…
Trouble with Strangers
Genre and Persuasion in Religious Ethics an Introduction
Issues of genre and persuasion are central to ethical thought and practice. Until recently, there has been an asymmetry between religious ethics and moral philosophy in regard to these issues. Renewed attention to these issues in moral philosophy creates a new context for their consideration in religious ethics—one in which the relation of religious ethics and moral philosophy is less determinate than it has been in previous discussions. The four…
Technologies of Desire
There are several different levels on which technology poses theological and ethical problems. At the first level, technology consists of devices and techniques. At the second level, technology involves the transformations that it effects in various areas of our lives. At the third level, technology expresses an entire kind of action or a basic attitude human beings take to the world and to themselves. Theologians typically address technology at …
Buddhism and Bioethics. Damien Keown
Joseph Butler's Moral and Religious Thought
Bultmann
Values interpretation
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Values interpretation
Bultmann
Joseph Butler's Moral and Religious Thought
Buddhism and Bioethics. Damien Keown
Technologies of Desire
There are several different levels on which technology poses theological and ethical problems. At the first level, technology consists of devices and techniques. At the second level, technology involves the transformations that it effects in various areas of our lives. At the third level, technology expresses an entire kind of action or a basic attitude human beings take to the world and to themselves. Theologians typically address technology at …
Genre and Persuasion in Religious Ethics an Introduction
Issues of genre and persuasion are central to ethical thought and practice. Until recently, there has been an asymmetry between religious ethics and moral philosophy in regard to these issues. Renewed attention to these issues in moral philosophy creates a new context for their consideration in religious ethics—one in which the relation of religious ethics and moral philosophy is less determinate than it has been in previous discussions. The four…
Trouble with Strangers
The Rich Young Ruler and Christian Ethics
In Christian ethics the Gospel story of the encounter of a rich young ruler with Jesus has been interpreted in two major ways: one that treats Jesus’ directive to the ruler as a counsel that goes beyond the commandments the ruler claims to have kept, and another that treats the directive as contained in the commandments and exposing his failure to keep them. I reconstruct Calvin’s version of the second interpretation, contrast it with Aquinas’s v…
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Troeltsch Today
Ernst Troeltsch’s influential typology of church, sect, and mystical remains a useful way of classifying forms of Christian social ethics today. However, his assumptions about what it means for Christian social ethics to influence society make it difficult for his typology to recognize or explain many of the achievements of Christian social ethics since his death, including those of William Temple, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Howard Thurman. Neverth…
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