Shalom and the ethics of belief
Subtitle: Nicholas Wolterstorff's theory of situated rationality
By: Nathan D. Shannon ; foreword by Nicholas P. Wolterstorff
Contributors: Wolterstorff, Nicholas, writer of foreword
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781498202244
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Faith; Christian ethics; Rationalism; Theory of Knowledge; Belief and doubt; Justification (Christian theology); Social ethics
Description: "Against the individualism and abstractionism of standard modern accounts of justification and epistemic merit, Wolterstorff incorporates the ethics of belief within the full scope of a person's socio-moral accountability, an accountability that ultimately flows from the teleology of the world as intended by its creator and from the inherent value of humans as bearers of the divine image. This study explores Nicholas Wolterstorff's theory of "situated rationality" from a theological point of view and argues that it is in fact a doxastic ethic based upon the theology of Wolterstorff's neo-Calvinist, Kuyperian background, which emerges in terms of his biblical ethic and eschatology of shalom. Situated rationality, the sum of Wolterstorff's decades-long work on epistemology and rationality is a shalom doxastic ethic--a Christian, common grace ethic of doxastic (even religious doxastic) pluralism." --
Notes: Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2014 under title: Shalom doxastic ethics : Nicholas Wolterstorff's theory of situated rationality.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: Nicholas P. Wolterstorff, Christian philosopher; title: Situated rationality and the doxastic self; title: Situated rationality and practices of inquiry; title: The comprehensive ethic of shalom; title: Theory and praxis: shalom theorizing and scholarship; title: A shalom doxastic ethic and the status of Christian belief.