Ethics of evangelism
Publisher: IVP
Published: April 2011
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780830839278
Description: Why do religious people attempt to persuade others of their beliefs? What are the current objections to the religious practice of proselytizing? Is proselytizing an ethically defensible practice? Are there kinds of proselytizing activities that are ethically questionable? Elmer John Thiessen responds to questions like these in an effort to provide a philosophical defense of proselytization, or religious persuasion, as an ethical practice. Thiessen examines and refutes current cultural and academic objections to religious proselytizing and offers a thorough ethics of evangelism. - Publisher.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Foundational issues; title: Epistemological/ethical objections to proselytizing; title: Proselytizing and the integrity/freedom of individuals and societies; title: Liberal objections to proselytizing; title: A defence of proselytizing; title: Criteria to evaluate proselytizing : part 1; title: Criteria to evaluate proselytizing : part 2; title: Some concluding considerations