{"product_id":"understanding-religious-ethics-isbn-9781405133524","title":"Understanding Religious Ethics","description":"This accessible introduction to religious ethics focuses on the major forms of moral reasoning encompassing the three ‘Abrahamic’ religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws on a range of moral issues, such as examples arising from friendship, marriage, homosexuality, lying, forgiveness and its limits, the death penalty, the environment, warfare, and the meaning of work, career, and vocation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLooks at both ethical reasoning and importantly, \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e that reasoning reveals insights into a religious tradition\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInvestigates the resources available to address common problems confronting Abrahamic faiths, and how each faith explains and defends its moral viewpoints\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffering concrete topics for interfaith discussions, this is a timely and insightful introduction to a fast-growing field of interest\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Conviction and Argument 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Preliminaries 19\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 God and Morality 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Jewish Ethics 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Christian Ethics 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Islamic Ethics 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Personal Matters 81\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Friendship 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Sexuality 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Marriage and Family 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Lying 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Forgiveness 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Social Matters 145\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Love and Justice 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Duty, Law, Conscience 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Capital Punishment 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 War (I): Towards War 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 War (II): In War 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Religion and the Environment 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: The Last Things 223\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Pursuits of Happiness: Labor, Leisure, and Life 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Good and Evil 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConclusion: What’s So Funny ’bout Peace, Love, and Understanding? 254\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 270\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“At 250 pages, the volume provides thoughtful theoretical foundations for comparative religious ethics balanced by attention to both historical context and normative issues.”  (\u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e, 11 June 2013)  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eCharles Mathewes\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Religious Ethics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEvil and the Augustinian Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eA Theology of Public Life\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and several edited volumes.  This accessible introduction to religious ethics focuses on the major forms of ethical reasoning encompassing the three “Abrahamic” religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It examines the ethical dimensions of these faiths, both individually and comparatively, by exploring how and what they think about a series of important issues such as friendship, marriage, homosexuality, lying, forgiveness and its limits, the death penalty, the environment, warfare, and the meaning of work, career, and vocation. In doing all of this, the book offers insight both into these particular traditions and into the common moral challenges confronting all people today.  \u003cp\u003eThe book pays serious attention not just to what each faith has to say about an issue, but also to how each faith explains and defends its moral viewpoints. Equal attention is given to each faith’s deliberation and judgments on specific issues, the styles and modes of reasoning by which those judgments are reached, and the ways in which those judgments reveal some of these traditions’ deepest convictions about God, the cosmos, and humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTimely and insightful, \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Religious Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e offers a powerful model of how the traditions can be understood and engaged charitably and critically – the sort of understanding and engagement that will be increasingly necessary in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This splendid volume—from a distinguished scholar and teacher—is the best available general introduction to comparative religious ethics. Unlike many arid textbooks, it offers a lively examination of the moral life by initiating readers into the diverse beliefs and practices that animate Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Adherents of these traditions and their critics will find much wisdom in these pages. The serious treatment of classical questions and contemporary problems is a needed antidote to many lazy discussions of controversial issues.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eEric Gregory,\u003c\/i\u003e Princeton University  \u003cp\u003e\"Comparative, comprehensive and highly readable, Matthewes' book provides an overview of religious ethics in three traditions without sacrificing the specificity of each ethical system. The author effortlessly enlightens the reader as to how Judaism, Christianity and Islam deals with highly relevant topics such as family, love, sexuality, lying, war, capital punishment and many more themes in a provocative and graceful manner.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eEbrahim Moosa, Duke University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990432465125,"sku":"NP9781405133524","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405133524.jpg?v=1761787805","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/understanding-religious-ethics-isbn-9781405133524","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}