| Altruism and Christian Ethics Contributor(s): Grant, Colin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521093619 ISBN-13: 9780521093613 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2009 Annotation: This book contends that secular altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Living - General - Religion | Christianity - General - Religion | Ethics |
| Dewey: 241.4 |
| Lexile Measure: 1500 |
| Series: New Studies in Christian Ethics |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.81 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterized by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity, so that its dismissal represents a social leveling that loses the depths that theology makes intelligible and religion makes possible. He argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and with the divine transformation of human possibilities. |