Happiness and the Christian Moral Life: An Introduction to Christian Ethics. By Paul J. Wadell

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-127
Author(s):  
Robert P. Kennedy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Moral Life

A Sense of Style

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-250
Author(s):  
David Bentley Hart ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Theory ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Imitation Of Christ ◽  
The World ◽  
Conception Of The Good

This essay addresses the alienation of aesthetics from ethics in the context of modernity. In examining the modern development of moral theory, it offers a critique of the dominant trends within that tradition, arguing that the result is a fragmented and disordered conception of the good life. Christian ethics, grounded in a conception of the beauty of God’s being as a disclosure of the true good, can reaffirm the connection between ethics and aesthetics, that beauty is not simply a matter of inward reflection but also of action toward the world, which gives content to moral life. Christian ethics ultimately requires a “sense of style” through which we are attracted to a life lived in imitation of Christ, and through which our conceptions of virtue are grounded in a desire to act in such a way as to manifest God’s beauty before the world.

scholarly journals Moral Intuition, Social Sin, and Moral Vision: Attending to the Unconscious Dimensions of Morality and Igniting the Moral Imagination

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 292
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Sweeny Block
Keyword(s):  
Moral Agency ◽  
Moral Imagination ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
Moral Intuition ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
Moral Vision ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Observable Actions ◽  
Future Work

This paper argues that the unconscious dimensions of the moral life—for example, moral vision, moral imagination, and distorted consciousness—are some of the most urgent provinces of moral theology today. Historically, moral theology was concerned with moral quandaries and observable actions, and moral agents were understood to be rational, deliberate, self-aware decision makers. Cultures of sin, such as racism and sexual violence, require that moral theologians reconceive of moral agency. Confronting these unconscious dimensions of the moral life requires integrating research in disciplines such as science, sociology, history, and anthropology with Christian ethics, pushing the boundaries of what has traditionally been understood to be the domain of moral theology. As an example, this paper draws upon the mutually reinforcing theories of moral intuition, developed by social and moral psychologists, and recent theories of social sin in Christian ethics, arguing that attention to the unconscious province of the moral life is necessary for developing an accurate conception of moral agency and for future work in moral formation. This paper concludes with a modest proposal for how stories might enable awareness of our distorted consciousness.

Review of The Moral Life of Schools.

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 913-913
Author(s):  
Stewart Ehly
Keyword(s):  
Moral Life
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