1st Edition

Resurrection and Moral Imagination

By Sarah Bachelard Copyright 2014
224 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

Moral life gathers its shape, force and meaning in relation to an underlying sense of reality, imaginatively conceived. Significant contemporary writing in philosophy appeals to the concept of ’transcendence’ to explore what is deepest in our moral experience, but leaves this notion theologically unspecified. This book reflects on the appeal to transcendence in ethics with reference to the... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Transcendence in Ethics; Chapter 2 Resurrection and Transcendence; Chapter 3 Resurrection, Imagination and Ethics; Chapter 4 Living beyond Death and Judgement; Chapter 5 Mortality and Moral Meaning; Chapter 6 The Practice of Resurrection Ethics: Secularisation, Contemplation and the Church; Conclusion;

Biography

Reverend Dr Sarah Bachelard is an Anglican priest and theologian based in Canberra, Australia. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Australian Catholic University, with special interests in philosophy, ethics and spirituality, and is the author of Experiencing God in a Time of Crisis (Convivium, 2012). She is the leader and founder of Benedictus Contemplative Church, an ecumenical worshipping community with a practice of silent meditation at its heart, and is a member of the World Community for Christian Meditation.

"This is an excellent and very significant work. It makes important contributions to theological ethics, systematic theology’s understanding of the doctrine of the resurrection, and to the intersection theology and moral philosophy." -JOSHUA DAVIS, Birmingham, Alabama.