1st Edition

Theological Ethics and Moral Value Phenomena The Experience of Values

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The experience of moral values is often side-lined in discussions about moral reasoning, and yet our values define a large part of our moral motives, standards and expectations. Theological Ethics and Moral Value Phenomena explores whether the experience of a meeting point of the immanent and the transcendent, i.e. the moral self and God, can be the source of our values. The book starts... Read more

Introduction: The Experience of Values; Part 1: Return to the Classics;  1 A Pragmatic Ontology of Religious Value Experience: A discussion of Charles Taylor, William James and Max Scheler, Angela Roothaan;  2 The Sentiments of the Heart and Protestant Ethics: A Constructive Dialogue between Paul Ramsey and Max Scheler, Patrick Nullens;  3 Empirically Grounded Ethics and Charles Taylor’s Relational Ontology of Goods, Guus Timmerman;  4 The Moral Relevance of Lived Experience in Complex Hospital Practices: A Phenomenological Approach, Frans Vosman;  Part 2: The Validating Person;  5 The Self in Exile: Emmanuel Housset’s Concept of Personhood, Frits de Lange;  6 Hospitality versus Personalism? Weil, Levinas and Derrida on the Encounter of the Other, Angela Roothaan;  7 Value-Based Ethics in Care, Axel Liégeois;  Part 3: Value Ethics in Practice;  8 A ‘Value’ Prolegomenon for Creation Care: Appropriations from Marion and Levinas, Ronald T. Michener;  9 Loving ‘Imagined Communities’: A Theological Assessment of the Value of Patriotism, Steven C. van den Heuvel;  10 Revival of the Fitting: Virtue and Relational Experiences of Value, Louke van Wensveen

Biography

Steven C. van den Heuvel is postdoctoral researcher in the department of Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit (ETF), Leuven, Belgium



Angela Roothaan is assistant professor of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands





Patrick Nullens is professor of Christian Ethics and Rector at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit (ETF), Leuven, Belgium