This paper was first presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Christian Ethics, Toronto School of Theology, Toronto, Ontario in January 1977. Robert Shelton aims to focus on the concept of 'right to health care,' its related principle, 'distributive justice' in an attempt to suggest 'where we are' at present and where we perhaps ought to be heading. The paper is divided into t...

This study arises from the context of current debates in the Catholic Church on the place of rule and law in moral reasoning. I suggest that ethics may be best served by approaches that place the human subject in a teleogical context and that recognise the need for interpretation of circumstances surrounding actions to be evaluated. This is in contrast to normative rule approaches. The insights...

F OR SOME YEARS NOW IT HAS BEEN clear to scholars in the field that moral theology cannot ignore the findings of psychology any more than it can ignore the findings of the other human sciences. 1 Nowhere has this realization mattered more than in the field of sexual ethics where, even in the quite recent past, reason often gave way to the pressure of taboos, feelings of dirtiness and unbending ...

Practical theology describes a context, interprets what has been discovered, brings in Christian norms, and constructs models of Christian practice. It is a process that involves epistemology and hermeneutics. For practical theology to be transformative, a postfoundational theological framework that allows interdisciplinary work and interpretation of experience in a given context is essential. ...

Taking the case of ‘spiritual gardening’ as a starting point, this paper reflects on praxis as the object of practical theology. Praxis is understood as the domain of lived religion and focuses on what people do rather than on official institutionalized religious traditions. Praxis refers to fields of practices like care or community building and to the patterned configurations of action, exper...

The two previous articles in this three part series on the subject of systematic theology [published in the Conservative Theological Journal – see footnotes] dealt with the definition of systematic theology as well as the contribution that dispensational premillennialism makes to systematic theology. This final article of the series gets to the most fundamental issue by answering the question, ...

The article is concerned with researching of the philosophical-religious phenomenon religious ethics. Relevance study determined by number difficulties definition concept “religious ethics”, ambiguity interpretation this in modern movement, social humanitarian sciences, and theology. relevance to also provided since there a need find an understanding between different ethical paradigms conditio...

The aim of the article is to indicate and describe normative assumptions professional ethics social entrepreneurs. innovative nature proposed concept consists in taking into consideration perspective Christian personalist ethics. It a theory morality which includes considerations for biblical theological view man, emphasizing above all their personal dignity. Referring principal axioms this eth...

the process theology is one of the theological systems which spread during postmodern period. this kind of theology tries to revive the spiritual system. david ray griffin is one of the process theologians and has many systematic researches. according to his idea, spiritual system in pre- modern considers the world in a way that is subjugated to an all-powerful being that unilaterally intervene...