Christian Moral Realism: Natural Law, Narrative, Virtue, and the Gospel (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs)

Book info: Christian Moral Realism: Natural Law, Narrative, Virtue, and the Gospel (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs) (Hardcover, 384 pages) – Clarendon Press, 2001. Language: English.

This book describes the shape of a Christian ethic that arises from a conversation between contemporary accounts of natural law theory, and virtue ethics. The ethic that emerges from this conversation seeks to resolve the tensions in Christian ethics between creation and eschatology, narrative and natural law, and objectivity and relativity. Black moves from this analytic foundation to conclude that worship lies at the heart of a theologically grounded ethic whose central concern is the flourishing of the whole human person in community with both one another and God. Editorial Reviews About the Author Rufus Black is Sanderson Fellow at the Uniting Church in the Australia Theological Hall in Melbourne. He is a Lecturer in Christian Ethics in the United Faculty of Theology and Chaplain of Ormond College.