Transformation Ethics de Thomas R. McFaul

Transformation Ethics

Thomas R. McFaul

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 noi 2002

Transformation Ethics develops a new framework for Christian moral reasoning called Transformation Ethics and applies it to three of the 21st century's most pressing ethical dilemmas. Author Thomas McFaul builds on the premise that the bridge leading from faith to action is the moral imagination. The Transformation framework synthesizes the strengths of four of Christianity's major traditions of moral reasoning: Faith-Love, Moral Law, Character, and Justice-Liberation. The two hyphenated pairs of Faith and Love and of Justice and Liberation reflect the close coupling of these terms throughout the history of Christian Ethics. Transformation Ethics traces the historic development of these four traditions from the Old Testament to the Modern eras and then integrates their strengths to create the Transformation framework. Using the Transformation framework, McFaul offers solution to the moral challenges that surround capital punishment, genetic modification, and homosexuality.

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Thomas R. McFaul received his PhD from Boston University. His teaching and scholarly interests include comparative religions, ethics, philosophy, science and religion, and futures studies. He has published seven books and many articles. His most recent book that he coauthored with Al Brunsting is God Is Here to Stay: Science, Evolution, and Belief in God (Wipf and Stock, 2014). He has taught a broad range of courses and has received two awards for outstanding teaching. Although retired, he continues to teach comparative religion courses at Collin College in Frisco, Texas, and ethics courses in the graduate liberal studies program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Al Brunsting received his PhD from the University of New Mexico and completed his graduate work at the National Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. He is a highly accomplished optical physicist and engineer with a successful record of innovative advancements in optical, mechanical, and electric systems; systems and competitive analysis. He holds fifteen issued USA patents and more than fifty foreign issued patents. One of his patented optical designs was integrated into a home blood glucose monitor used by diabetics and has sold over 1.5 million instruments. As a result of this and other outstanding accomplishments, he was the winner of Bayer Corporation's award for distinguished technical achievement. He has also held the position of assistant professor of physics at Auburn University, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses. He has given over forty presentations at professional society meetings.