Churchgoing and Christian Ethics - 9780521578288

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Title: Churchgoing and Christian Ethics

Author: Gill, Robin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Publication Date: 1999

Paperback; ISBN: 9780521578288

Volumes: 1; Pages: 392

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Robin Gill argues that moral communities should take center stage in ethics. This book examines recent evidence about church communities in relation to faith, moral order and love, and shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes, beliefs and behavior. Some attitudes change over time, and there are several moral disagreements among different groups of churchgoers. Moreover, their values and behavior are shared by many nonchurchgoers also. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is crucial for the task of Christian ethics.Examines recent social attitude surveys to compare the views of churchgoing and non-churchgoing communities, focusing on faith, moral order and loveConcludes that whether or not someone goes to church regularly is a good indicator of a whole range of beliefs, moral attitudes and behaviourConsiders the implications of churchgoing for ethics in a postmodern ageContentsPrefaceList of tablesIntroductionPart I. The Theoretical Context1. Churchgoing and the bias of virtue ethicists2. Churchgoing and the bias of sociologists3. Four theories of churchgoingPart II. The Evidence4. The British Household Panel survey5. Faith in British social attitudes surveys6. Moral order in British social attitudes surveys7. Love in British social attitudes surveysPart III. The Implications8. Churchgoing and Christian identity9. Churches and moral disagreementPostscriptWorks citedIndex

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