Religious Ethics Books

New and Published Books

1. Modern Honor

   A Philosophical Defense

   By Anthony Cunningham

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   This book examines the notion of honor with an eye to dissecting its intellectual demise and with the aim of making a case for honor’s rehabilitation. Western intellectuals acknowledge honor’s influence, but they lament its authority. For Western democratic societies to embrace honor, it must be...

   Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge
2. A Philosophy of Christian Morals for Today

   By Robert Corkey

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   Philosophers have been sharply divided in attempts to reconcile the validity of the moral distinctions essential to social well-being with the apparent ethical neutrality of the factual world. The failure to find an agreed solution to this problem produced the popular theory of Logical Empiricism,...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. Christian Ethics

   By Robert Cecil Mortimer

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   A discussion of the general presuppositions and ideas which underlie the Christian ethical teaching, treating of such subjects as conscience, the concepts of sin and virtue, and the relation between morality and religion. The book also attempts to explain the traditional Christian attitudes towards...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. Christianity and Morals

   By Edward Alexander Westermarck

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   A thorough examination of many aspects of morality through the lens of Christianity, this book, originally published in 1939, is philosophical in its approach to assessing religion. It compares moral traditions of many world religions and describes their changes over time as well. Written...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
5. Human Dignity in Bioethics

   From Worldviews to the Public Square

   Edited by Stephen Dilley, Nathan J. Palpant

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Human Dignity in Bioethics brings together a collection of essays that rigorously examine the concept of human dignity from its metaphysical foundations to its polemical deployment in bioethical controversies. The volume falls into three parts, beginning with meta-level perspectives and moving to...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge