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Moral Choice: A Christian View of Ethics
Author(s): Dolores L. Christie (Author)
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: 1 Sept. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780800698027
- ISBN-13: 0800698029
Book Description
This survey text for Christian ethics through a Catholic lens traces the sources and traditions of contemporary ethical principles, rules, and norms. It uses narrative in reaching out to students who seek to understand themselves as they face ethical decisions. Stories are employed to reflect one’s own life and its meaning, as well as to prompt moral decision-making.The book gives full treatment to criteria needed for ethical decision-making that students use in evaluating a series of contemporary issues, including abortion, end of life, torture, and others. The book includes numerous pedagogic features, including boxes, questions, key terms, suggested readings, and a glossary.
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From the Back Cover
This survey text for Christian ethics courses traces the sources and traditions that define the history and development of contemporary ethical principles, rules, and norms. Distinctive in her approach, Dee Christie takes seriously the importance of narrative in reaching out to students who seek to understand themselves as they face challenges and dilemmas in living an authentic moral life. Stories are employed to reflect one’s own life and its meaning, as well as prompting moral reflection and inspiring moral vision in the emotional, and rational, process of making good decisions.
The book gives full treatment to criteria needed for ethical decision-making that students use in evaluating a series of contemporary issues, including abortion, end of life, torture, and others. The book includes numerous pedagogic features, including boxes, questions, key terms, suggested readings, and a glossary
About the Author
Dolores L. Christieis former executive director of the Catholic Theological Society of America. She has taught undergraduates at John Carroll University and Baldwin Wallace College, and has taught in the graduate departments of Ohio Dominican University and Ursuline College.
