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Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics

  • Paperback
  • 272 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.3 x 22.7 x 2.6 cm

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For theologians seeking fresh insights in ethics

Helps address modern moral questions with ethnographic tools

You will deepen your understanding of Christian moral claims

This book explores how ethnography enriches Christian theology and ethics.

This book is a primary resource in the new and growing field of Christian Ethnography. In response to a variety of critical intellectual currents (post-colonial, post-modern, and post-liberal), scholars in Christian theology and ethics are increasingly taking up the tools of ethnography as a means to ask fundamental moral questions and to make more compelling and credible moral claims. Privileging particularity, rather than the more traditional effort to achieve universal or at least generalizable norms in making claims regarding the Christian life, echoes the most fundamental insight of the Christian tradition - that God is known most fully in Jesus of Nazareth. Echoing this 'scandal of particularity' at the heart of the Christian tradition, theologians and ethicists involved in ethnographic research draw on the particular to seek out answers to core questions of their discipline: who God is and how we become the people we are, how to conceptualize moral agency in relation to God and the world, and how to flesh out the content of conceptual categories such as justice that help direct us in our daily decisions and guiding institutions.
Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics and Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life
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  • Title

    Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics

  • Author

    Christian Scharen

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    June 2011

  • Weight

    414g

  • Page Count

    272

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.7 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781441155450

  • ISBN-10

    1441155457

  • Eden Code

    3196710

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