The distinctiveness of Christian morality – reflections after 30 years
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne)
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AOSIS Open Journals
Abstract
I completed my doctoral dissertation on The distinctiveness of Christian morality in 1978. In
this article, now more than 30 years later, I critically examined the extent to which the view
that I developed in my doctoral dissertation is still valid today and to what extent it stands
to be corrected in the light of developments in Christian ethics in the meantime. Firstly, I
provided a brief summary of the view developed in the dissertation. Secondly, I discussed the
influential alternative view of Stanley Hauerwas and attempted to identify ways in which his
view necessitates corrections to my own view in the dissertation. Thirdly, I criticised the onesidedness
of Hauerwas’s view on the distinctiveness of Christian morality and discussed ways in
which we need to go beyond Hauerwas’s view in order to develop a more satisfactory and
also more inclusive approach.
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Christian morality, Christian ethics
Sustainable Development Goals
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De Villiers, D.E., 2012, ' The distinctiveness of Christian morality – Reflections after 30 years', Verbum et Ecclesia 33(2), Art. #758, 7 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.4102/ve.v33i2.758