Dirty Hands: Christian Ethics in a Morally Ambiguous World
- ISBN-10
- 1451408234
- ISBN-13
- 9781451408232
- Series
- Dirty Hands
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-05-01
- Publisher
- Fortress Press
- Author
- Garth Baker-Fletcher
Description
How can one make the ethical and "right" decision in a deeply ambiguous moral world? Baker-Fletcher's basic introduction to Christian Ethics-with attitude-examines the fundamental ethical problems of moral decision-making, in which knowledge will always be unsure, time short, decisions ambiguous, and consequences multiple and unforseeable. Baker-Fletcher treats ethics as engagement, getting one's hand's "dirty with life." He employs a journey motif in order to aid readers in plotting their own "moralscape" (the fundamental commitments that affect their own decisions.
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Other editions
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- 2000
- 146 pages
- Paperback
- Augsburg Fortress Publishing
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