Frank Kirkpatrick's important and timely study sets out to identify a Christian ethic of community which accounts for the whole range of forms of human association, without eliding the significant differences between them. Written in a clear, accessible style - Kirkpatrick puts across complicated and challenging ideas in an entirely user-friendly way, providing a usable model for ethical and theological reflection.

Series: Blackwell Religious Ethics

Susan Parson's new book explores a dimension to theology and ethics which has proved to be challenging and illuminating for ethical thinking and action. That dimension is gender. Drawing on the work of such diverse and important thinkers as Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Paul Ricoeur, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, Fergus Kerr, and Thomas Lacquer, the author shows what it means to live as an embodied human being in the light of western philosophical and theological notions of bodiliness.

Series: Blackwell Religious Ethics

The topic of sexual ethics and interest in sexuality in theology generally, has grown considerably in recent years. Mark D. Jordan has written a provocative and stimulating introduction to the issues involved, filling a much-needed void in this field. Jordan summarises key topics and themes in the teaching and discussion of religious ethics as well as pushing forward the debate in interesting and original directions. The author is one of the most exciting and avant garde of Christian writers at the interface of medieval history and postmodern theology, and won widespread praise for his ground-breaking study, The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology.

Series: Blackwell Religious Ethics

Many questions of conceptual and practical interest are raised by thinking about religious diversity. This volume is principally a map of the territory covered by these questions. It is a guide to what the questions are, and ways of thinking about and answering them that have proven attractive and interesting to many. It also contains suggestions, recommendations, and arguments as to how these questions are best thought about.

Series: Exploring the Philosophy of Religion

The Philosophy of Religious Language
Sign, Symbol and Story

Dan Stiver
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

"This is an excellent critical survey of the modern philosophy of language in general, and of religious language in particular, deftly set against the background of its traditional forerunners. It is readable, colourful, and richly informative, without being simplistic or sweeping in its descriptions and judgements."
Steven Kings, Reviews in Religion and Theology

The 'problem of evil' is a subject of perennial interest to philosophers of religion and theologians, but research has barely scratched the surface of the complex history of western responses to the challenge of evil. This reader brings together primary sources from philosophy, theology and literature to chart the many and changing ways evil has been approached and understood, and to examine the diverse implications it has had for belief and unbelief.

This book brings Christian theology, creative literature and literary critical theory into dialogue on the theme of 'the end'. The author examines the main themes of Christian eschatology - such as death, parousia, resurrection, human destiny and the nature of eternity - and offers a critical view of the doctrines of the last things produced by major modern theologians, including Jürgen Moltmann and Wolfhart Pannenberg.

Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology

"Blackwell's Companions to Philosophy have already established themselves as up-to-date and reliable guides to the central fields within the discipline. This present volume which offers a remarkably wide-ranging survey of philosophy of religion and philosophical theology in crisp and manageable essays by acknowledged authorities is no exception."
The Tablet

In over 78 newly-commissioned essays, this outstanding volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the philosophy of religion.

Series: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

"Taliaferro has written a lively, engaging introduction to contemporary philosophy of religion. It combines current 'front-burner' issues with a solid background of traditional themes, and incorporates welcome attention to non-Western religious traditions."
William Hasker, Huntington College

This volume is distinctive in its coverage of world religions, its emphasis on the social and ethical consequences of religious and political convictions, and its focus on the current state of the field.

Series: Contemporary Philosophy

This volume contains a collection of the essential readings treating both classic and contemporary issues in philosophy of religion. In addition to topics such as arguments for God's existence, the problem of evil, and divine attributes, it contains articles on divine hiddenness, the nature of revelation, and the doctrine of hell. The text gives special attention to very recent work in philosophy of religion and includes a section devoted to multi-cultural perspectives.

Series: Philosophy: The Big Questions

From Ramanuja to Wittgenstein, this innovative survey explores the distinctive character of three traditions - Indian, Chinese and Western - that have dominated philosophical thought over the past thousand years. It offers readers a panoramic view of the ideas that have shaped the world, and prompts them to ponder their significance for the next thousand years.

This is the first book devoted to the work of Peter Singer, one of the leaders of the practical ethics movement, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Singer's metaethical views, his normative theory, and his substantive positions on such matters as the moral status of animals, the sanctity of human life, and famine relief are all subjected to scrutiny.

Series: Philosophers and their Critics

This volume contains all that the beginning reader or student needs to soundly grasp the ideas and issues involved in the field. Building on the model used by Peter Singer in his highly successful Companion to Ethics, A Companion to Bioethics consists of 47 specially written essays designed to present the key issues and concepts in bioethics.

Series: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

This volume is a definitive, high-quality, one-volume collection of key primary texts for the study of bioethics. In its structure and content, the Anthology is intended to complement the Companion to Bioethics. It collects key texts on such varied topics as the new genetics and reproductive technologies, euthanasia, AIDS, animal and human experimentation, nursing ethics and medical ethics.

Series: Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies

Moral Theory
A Non-Consequentialist Approach

David S. Oderberg
University of Reading

The last thirty years have seen the burgeoning of applied ethics, in which moral philosophy is applied to concrete ethical problems. While this is a welcome development, it is also true that the discipline has been dominated by one particular ethical theory, namely consequentialism. Moral Theory, and its companion volume Applied Ethics, provide a much-needed alternative to consequentialist orthodoxy.