Common Callings and Ordinary Virtues - Christian Ethics for Everyday Life

Waters, Brent

Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group（2022/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780801099427
• DDC分類 241

Full Description

Every day, we do commonplace things and interact with ordinary people without giving them much thought. This volume offers a theological guide to thinking Christianly about the ordinary nature of everyday life. Leading ethicist Brent Waters shows that the activities and relationships we think of as mundane are actually expressions of love of neighbor that are vitally important to our wellbeing. We live out the Christian gospel in the contexts that define us and in the routine chores, practices, activities, and social settings that give ordinary life meaning. It is in those contexts that we discover what we were created for, to be, and to become.

Contents

Contents

Part One: Theological and Moral Themes
1. Creation, Incarnation, and Resurrection
2. Calling and Vocation
3. Virtue and Vice
4. Ritual and the Ordering of Time and Place: On Belonging
Part Two: Everyday Relationships
5. Neighbors
6. Friends
7. Spouses
8. Parents and Children
9. Strangers
10. Citizens
Part Three: Everyday Activities
11. Work
12. Housework and Homework
13. Manners
14. Appearance
15. Eating
16. Leisure
Postscript: On the Good of Being Boring
Indexes