Moral Issues and Christian Responses: Eighth Edition

by Patricia Beattie Jung, L. Shannon Jung, Dale A. Johnson, et al.

Book Overview

This popular anthology for the study of Christian ethics, now in its eighth edition, has been a mainstay of undergraduate courses for nearly thirty years. Shannon and Patricia Jung provide an introduction to contemporary moral issues from decidedly, yet diverse, Christian moral perspectives. The anthology intentionally seeks a range of voices to produce a kind of "point/counterpoint" discussion of an ethical issue. Issues include: the distinctiveness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800698967
• ISBN13: 9780800698966
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A solid source book with some gems and few duds

This is a good, and fairly comprehensive textbook on Christian Ethics, and could be used as a substantial source book for a class in this field. As with all collections of various writers, some of its contributions are very strong and others weak. The first two chapters were not very helpful setting up a framework for thinking about Christian Ethics, but the latter chapters on issues provided some very hard-hitting and insightful essays. Sometimes the lens of Christianity would drop entirely out of the analysis (but these essays were still very good) and sometimes the Christian lens would be explicit. There is a fair mix of both conservative and liberal views on Christianity, as well as Protestant and Catholic contributors. Unfortunately (the pervasive U.S. bias) Orthodox thought is entirely absent. On the whole I would recommend this book for classroom use in a secular university or seminary setting.