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Churchgoing and Christian ethics

Author: Robin Gill
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series: New studies in Christian ethics.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Robin Gill argues that once moral communities (such as churchgoers) take centre stage in ethics - as they do in virtue ethics - then there should be a greater interest in sociological evidence about these communities. This book examines recent evidence, gathered from social attitude surveys, about church communities, in particular their views on faith, moral order and love. It shows that churchgoers are distinctive  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Robin Gill
ISBN: 0521570581 9780521570589 0521578280 9780521578288
OCLC Number: 40473786
Description: xi, 277 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Part One: the theoretical context --
Churchgoing and the bias of virtue ethicists --
Churchgoing and the bias of sociologists --
Four theories of churchgoing --
Part Two: The evidence --
the British household panel survey --
Faith in British social attitude surveys --
Moral order in British social attitudes surveys --
Love in British social attitudes surveys --
Part Three: The implications --
Churchgoing and Christian identity --
Churches and moral disagreement.
Series Title: New studies in Christian ethics.
Responsibility: Robin Gill.
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Abstract:

Robin Gill argues that once moral communities (such as churchgoers) take centre stage in ethics - as they do in virtue ethics - then there should be a greater interest in sociological evidence about these communities. This book examines recent evidence, gathered from social attitude surveys, about church communities, in particular their views on faith, moral order and love. It shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes and behaviour. Some of their attitudes change over time, and there are a number of obvious moral disagreements between different groups of churchgoers. Nonetheless, there are broad patterns of Christian beliefs, teleology and altruism which distinguish churchgoers as a whole from non-churchgoers. However, the values, virtues, moral attitudes and behaviour of churchgoers are shared by many other people as well. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is crucial for the task of Christian ethics.

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