{"product_id":"moral-struggle-and-religious-ethics-isbn-9781444336825","title":"Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics","description":"\u003ci\u003eMoral Struggle and Religious Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comparative discussion of the challenges of living a moral religious life. This is illustrated with a study of two key thinkers, Bonaventure and Buddhaghosa, who influenced the development of moral thinking in Christianity and Buddhism respectively.  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides an important and original contribution to the comparative study and practice of religious ethics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMoves away from a comparison of theories by discussing the shared human problem of moral weakness\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers an fresh approach with a comparison of the understanding of the problem of moral weakness between the two key thinkers, Bonaventure and Buddhaghosa\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by a highly respected academic in the dynamic and fast-growing field of comparative religious ethics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  List of Figures.  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Questions and Contexts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Person as Classic: Questions, Limits, and Religious Motivations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePersons, Limits, and Religious Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassics: questions and limits in thought and action.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligious ethics: interpreting limited persons.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe model of person as classic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassic Persons: Ideas, Practices, and Questions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBonaventure as mediator of classic ideas and practices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuddhaghosa as mediator of classic ideas and practices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral struggle as classic question.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Context: The Symbolic Religious Cosmologies of Roman Catholicism and Therava-da Buddhism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral Struggle in Greek, Roman, and Christian Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeakness of will and volition in classical philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaw, love, and wisdom in Christian scriptures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLove, sin, and self-examination in Patristic theology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural law and rational appetite in medieval theology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral Struggle in Indian and Buddhist Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUniversal \u003ci\u003edharma\u003c\/i\u003e and individual \u003ci\u003edharma\u003c\/i\u003e in the Vedas and epics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelf and world in the \u003ci\u003eUpanis.ads\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral perfection in the Buddhist \u003ci\u003eNika-yas\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Symbolic Religious Cosmology of the Trinity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrinitarian doctrine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrinitarian symbolism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrinitarian exemplarity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Symbolic Religious Cosmology of Buddhist Abhidhamma.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstitution of persons: aggregates, characteristics, and ultimate realities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe nature of reality and the structure of causality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntention, volition, and personal continuity in Buddhist Abhidhamma.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbhidhamma and Trinity as Comparative Contexts and Categories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Context: Material Simplicity in Christian and Buddhist Life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Introduction to Material Simplicity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoverty and avarice in Bonaventure's Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimplicity and sponsorship in Buddhaghosa's Ceylon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBonaventure on Material Simplicity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaterial sufficiency in institutional life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVoluntary poverty in individual life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuddhaghosa on Material Simplicity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWealth, giving, and the sacrifice of purification.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the twofold nature of materiality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaterial Simplicity and the Problem of Moral Struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Ideas, Practices, and Persons.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Bonaventure and Buddhaghosa: From Ideas to Practices.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBonaventure's Continuity with Medieval Debates on the Nature of Will.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuddhaghosa's Manual of Practical Abhidhamma.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBonaventure on the Connection Between Sacrament and Virtue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuddhaghosa on the Connection Between Morality and Meditation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Bonaventure and Buddhaghosa: From Practices to Persons.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBonaventure on Prayer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuddhaghosa on Meditation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBonaventure on Moral Exemplars.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuddhaghosa on Moral Exemplars.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComparing Persons in the Process of Struggle: Two Notions of Person as Classic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Personal Horizons: Moral Struggle, Religious Humility, and the Possibility of a Comparative Theological Ethics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBonaventure and Buddhaghosa on Personal Struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComparative Theology and Comparative Ethics: A Religious-Interpretive Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Methodological Struggles of Comparative Persons: Five Roads of Return.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStruggles for a Comparative Horizon: Religious Humility and the Problem of Conversion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Some Common Buddhist Lists, Their Relation, and Their Significance in Abhidhamma.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid A. Clairmont\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope With Modernization and Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e (2007).  \u003ci\u003eMoral Struggle and Religious Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e examines the need that drives us from the comforts of our own religious traditions to learn about those that are unknown and even irreconcilably different. It takes as its theme a problem common throughout religions: that religious people do not always behave morally.  \u003cp\u003eClairmont presents a fresh approach in his discussion of the challenges involved in living a moral life by offering an in-depth reading of the work of the two important religious figures: Bonaventure, a 13th century Roman Catholic priest and teacher in the Franciscan order, and Buddhaghosa, a 5th-century Theravada Buddhist monk. These two men offer crucial insights into the development of moral thinking in Christianity and Buddhism respectively. Clairmont's comparison is centered on the struggle of both men to make sense of human moral weakness and their moral reflections on appropriate interaction with the world around them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn focusing on the shared human problem of moral failure, Clairmont demonstrates that we are only able to fully understand a religious tradition through open-minded and respectful comparison to others. At a time over-shadowed by the potential of religious violence, it demonstrates that inter-religious conversation serves to advance the well-being of the human community.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Clairmont has given us a significant contribution to comparative ethics and comparative theology more broadly. Best of all, Clairmont reflects in depth on the current discussion concerning the hermeneutics of comparison. I strongly recommend this book.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eRev. James L. Fredericks\u003c\/b\u003e, Ph.D. Loyola Marymount University  \u003cp\u003e\"Over the past several years, comparative religious ethics has emerged as a centrally important interdisciplinary line of research, crossing the boundaries among religious studies, history, anthropology, and ethics. David Clairmont's book offers a strikingly original contribution to this emerging field.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eJean Porter\u003c\/b\u003e, John A. O'Brien Professor of Theological Ethics, University of Notre Dame\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"David Clairmont is one of a new generation of scholars who possess the requisite philological \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e philosophical skills to undertake serious comparative study of thinkers from radically different traditions. This work shows what we have been missing up to now. It offers meticulous comparisons between them on issues such as sacramental and meditative practices, understandings of the cultivation of virtue, and the nature and purpose of religious and ethical languages, and he has acute and thought-provoking things to say on all of them. This book is part of a new era in religious ethics.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eCharles Mathewes\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Virginia\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989654225125,"sku":"NP9781444336825","price":118.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444336825.jpg?v=1761784974","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/moral-struggle-and-religious-ethics-isbn-9781444336825","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}