Dirty Hands: by Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletc

Author: Garth Baker-Fletcher

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Dirty Hands

Christian Ethics in a Morally Ambiguous World

Author: Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher

How can one make the ethical and "right' decision in a deeply ambiguous moral world? Baker-Fletcher's basic introduction to Christian Ethics -- with attitude -- examines the fundamental ethical problems of moral decision-making, in which knowledge will always be unsure, time short, decisions ambiguous, and consequences multiple and unforseeable. Pluralism and complexity today make personal, sexual, social, medical, business, and political choices "dirty", and ethics needs to be rethought accordingly.

Baker-Fletcher treats ethics as engagement, getting one's hand's "dirty with life'. He employs a journey motif in order to aid readers in plotting their own "moralscape" (the fundamental commitments that affect their own decisions).

Contents
1. The Problem: Ethics as Orders, Disorders, and a Search
2. Obedience, Absolutism, and Real "Dirt"
3. Journey Moralscape
4. Articulating Love -- Power -- Justice
5. Dirty Hands and Holy Hands: A Case Study
6. Real Dirt: Getting Our Hands "Dirty" with Life

About the Author
Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher is Associate Professor of Ethics at the School of Theology, Claremont, California, and author of Somebodyness: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Theory of Dignity.

Publisher: Fortress Press
Publication Date: Jan 3 2000
Format: paperback
Physical Info: 0.4" H x 8.47" L x 5.5" W (0.5 lbs) 128 pages
US SRP: $ 16.00 US

Additional Information
CPC Categories:
- Theology | Theology & Doctrine | Ethics
Categories:
| Philosophy & Ethics
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Ethics
- Religion | Christian Life | General
- Religion | Christian Theology | Ethics
LC Subjects:
- Christian ethics
Themes:
Theometrics | Academic
Ethnic Orientation | African-American
Religious Orientation | Christian

Dirty Hands: by Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletc Author: Garth Baker-Fletcher
	Item#	Binding	isbn - 10	Price
	0800630785	Paperback	0800630785	11.95
Christian Ethics in a Morally Ambiguous World: How can one make the ethical and "right" decision in a deeply ambiguous moral world?

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