Ethics of Everyday Life: Moral Theology, Social Anthropology, and the Imagination of the Human

by Michael Banner

Book Overview

Why do we have children and what do we raise them for? Does the proliferation of depictions of suffering in the media enhance, or endanger, compassion? How do we live and die well in the extended periods of debility which old age now threatens? Why and how should we grieve for the dead? And how should we properly remember other grief and grievances?

In addressing such questions, the Christian imagination of human life has been powerfully shaped...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198722060
• ISBN13: 9780198722069
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"