Churchgoing and Christian ethics / Robin Gill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gill, Robin, author.

Series:

New studies in Christian ethics. ; 15.

New studies in Christian ethics ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian ethics--Great Britain--Public opinion.

Christian ethics.

Christians--Great Britain--Attitudes.

Christians.

Church attendance--Great Britain.

Church attendance.

Public opinion--Great Britain.

Public opinion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Churchgoing & Christian Ethics

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robin Gill argues that once moral communities (such as churchgoers) take centre stage in ethics - as they do in virtue ethics - then there should be a greater interest in sociological evidence about these communities. This book, first published in 1999, examines evidence gathered from social attitude surveys about church communities, in particular their views on faith, moral order and love. It shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes and behaviour. Some of their attitudes change over time, and there are a number of obvious moral disagreements between different groups of churchgoers. Nonetheless, there are broad patterns of Christian beliefs, teleology and altruism which distinguish churchgoers as a whole from non-churchgoers. However, the values, virtues, moral attitudes and behaviour of churchgoers are shared by many other people as well. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is crucial for the task of Christian ethics.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One: The theoretical Context; Churchgoing and the bias of virtue ethicists; Churchgoing and the bias of sociologists; Four theories of churchgoing; Part Two: The Evidence; The British Household Panel Survey; Faith in British Social Attitudes surveys; Moral order in British Social Attitudes surveys; Love in British Social Attitudes survey; Part Three: The Implications; Churchgoing and Christian identity; Churches and moral disagreement; Postscript; Works cited; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-273) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11337-7

0-511-00774-4

1-280-42915-1

0-511-17188-9

0-511-14942-5

0-511-60563-3

0-511-30965-1

0-511-05362-2

OCLC:

437072405