Hospitality as holiness
Subtitle: Christian witness amid moral diversity
By: Luke Bretherton.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.; Ashgate Pub Co
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Hospitality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Witnessbearing (Christianity); Evangelistic work; Christian ethics; Church and the world; Holiness
Description: "Hospitality as Holiness seeks to address the underlying question facing the church within contemporary moral debates: how should Christians relate to their neighbours when ethical disputes arise? The problems the book examines centre on what the nature and basis of Christian moral thought and action is, and in the contemporary context, whether moral disputes may be resolved with those who do not share the same framework as Christians. Bretherton establishes a model - that of hospitality - for how Christians and non-Christians can relate to each other amid moral diversity."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alasdair MacIntyre's diagnosis of the contemporary context; title: Germain Grisez and the shared rationality of all moral traditions; title: Oliver O'Donovan and the distinctiveness of Christian ethics; title: Local politics, ecclesiology, and resisting modernity; title: The practice of hospitality; title: Hospitality, hospice care, and euthanasia : a case study in negotiating moral diversity.