Beschreibung:
Hospitality as Holiness will appeal to those interested in the broad question of the relationship between reason, tradition, natural law and revelation in theology, and more specifically to those engaged with questions about plurality, tolerance and ethical conflict in Christian ethics and medical ethics.
Contents: Preface; Introduction. Part I The Problem of Moral Plurality: Alasdair MacIntyre's diagnosis of the contemporary context; Germain Grisez and the shared rationality of all moral traditions; Oliver O'Donovan and the distinctiveness of Christian ethics. Part II The Nature and Shape of Christian Hospitality: Local politics, ecclesiology and resisting modernity; The practice of hospitality; Hospitality, hospice care and euthanasia - a case study in negotiating moral diversity. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.