Love and Good Reasons: Postliberal Approaches to Christian Ethics and Literature

by Fritz Oehlschlaeger

Insisting on the vital, productive relationship between ethics and the study of literature, Love and Good Reasons demonstrates ways of reading novels and stories from a Christian perspective. Fritz Oehlschlaeger argues for the study of literature as a training ground for the kinds of thinking on which moral reasoning depends. He challenges methods of doing ethics that attempt to specify universally binding principles or rules and argues for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822330644
• ISBN13: 9780822330646
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.7"