Covenant, Community, and the Common Good: An Interpretation of Christian Ethics"Covenant - a basis of Reformed theology and ethics - fell on hard times in the 1970s and 1980s because it seemed to carry with it unredeemable patriarchical presuppositions. Common good - a strong category for Catholic moral thought - suffered a similar demise because it seemed to lack the needed precision for useful analysis. In Covenant, Community, and the Common Good, Eric Mount offers a refinement of both terms in the context of community. The resulting ethics promotes egalitarian goods of community, vocation, and equitable distribution. Mount presents a contemporary understanding of ethics that can address the current debates on family values, work and welfare, civil society and virtue, and our growing global community."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Contents
The Commonality of the Common Good | 30 |
Homing In on Family Values | 52 |
Covenants of Work Family and Welfare | 80 |
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| Title | Covenant, Community, and the Common Good: An Interpretation of Christian Ethics |
| Author | Eric Mount |
| Publisher | Pilgrim Press, 1999 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 12, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0829813551, 9780829813555 |
| Length | 188 pages |
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