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  1. Beauty and sensibility in the thought of Jonathan Edwards
    an essay in aesthetics and theological ethics
    Published: 1968
    Publisher:  Yale Univ. Press, New Haven [u.a.]

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    Subjects: Christelijke ethiek; Esthétique; Schoonheid; Christliche Ethik; Ästhetik; Theologie; Ästhetik
    Other subjects: Edwards, Jonathan <1703-1758>; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
    Scope: XVI, 238 S.
  2. La raison d'être du mal
    d'après saint Augustin
    Published: 1927
    Publisher:  Éd. du Museum Lessianum, Louvain

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    Series: [Museum Lessianum / Section théologique] ; 17
    Subjects: Augustin - saint, évêque d'Hippone - Et le mal; Christelijke ethiek; Mal - Aspect religieux - Christianisme; Ziekte; Christliche Ethik; Dogmatik; Philosophie; Good and evil; Theology, Doctrinal; Das Böse
    Other subjects: Augustine <Saint, Bishop of Hippo>; Augustinus, Aurelius Heiliger (354-430)
    Scope: 241 S.
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    Zugl.: Rom, Univ. Gregoriana, Diss., 1927

  3. Sinngebung der Natur und ökologisches Handeln
    eine empirisch theologische Untersuchung zu Motiven umweltschützenden Handelns bei Kirchen- und Nichtkirchenmitgliedern
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Lit, Münster

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 3825847195
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    Series: Empirische Theologie ; 4
    Subjects: Christelijke ethiek; Milieugedrag; Christentum; Christliche Ethik; Religion; Ökologie; Ecology; Nature; Umweltbewusstsein; Motivation; Handlung; Kirchengliedschaft
    Scope: 184 S., graph. Darst.
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    Zugl.: Nijmwegen, Univ., Diss., 1999

  4. Paul Ricoeur, une poétique de la morale
    aux fondements d'une éthique herméneutique et narrative dans une perspective chrétienne
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Leuven Univ. Press [u.a.], Leuven

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    ISBN: 9068317938; 2877232972; 9061867231
    RVK Categories: BK 1550 ; CI 6197
    Series: Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium ; 124
    Subjects: Christelijke ethiek; Hermeneutiek; Morale - 20e siècle; Morale chrétienne - Histoire - 20e siècle; Christliche Ethik; Geschichte; Hermeneutik; Ethics; Hermeneutics; Poetics; Ethik
    Other subjects: Ricœur, Paul - Bibliographie; Ricœur, Paul - Morale; Ricœur, Paul; Ricœur, Paul (1913-2005)
    Scope: XVI, 706, 6 S.
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    Zugl.: Leuven, Univ., Diss., 1995

  5. Scripture and ethics
    twentieth-century portraits
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, New York [u.a.]

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  6. Éros au moyen âge
    amour, désir et délectation morose
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Éd. du Cerf, Paris

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  7. Reading a New Testament document ethically
    Author: Mouton, Elna
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden ; Boston ; Köln

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    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9004126589
    RVK Categories: BC 7310
    Series: Academia biblica ; 1
    Subjects: Christelijke ethiek; Efeziërs (bijbelboek); Christliche Ethik; Christian ethics; Ethics in the Bible; Christliche Ethik; Rhetorik
    Scope: XIV, 290 S.
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    Zugl.: Bellville, Cape Town, Univ. of the Western Cape, Diss., 1995

  8. Evil and Christian ethics
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 0521771099; 0521797454
    RVK Categories: BK 1950 ; CC 7200
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: New studies in Christian ethics ; 20
    Subjects: Christelijke ethiek; Het Kwaad; Mal; Mal, Problème du - Christianisme; Morale chrétienne; Morale chrétienne; Christliche Ethik; Christian ethics; Good and evil; Übel; Das Böse; Christliche Ethik
    Scope: XVIII, 241 S.
  9. Die Argumentation des Paulus in ethischen Herausforderungen
    Published: 2004
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    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    ISBN: 3899711645
    RVK Categories: BC 7280
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    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Subjects: Argumentatie; Brieven van Paulus; Christelijke ethiek; Christliche Ethik; Christian moral exhortation; Christliche Ethik; Zeithintergrund; Rhetorik; Argumentation
    Scope: 341 S.
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    Zugl.: München, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1998

  10. The power of the passive self in English literature
    1640 - 1770
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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  11. Androcles and the lion
    Published: 1957
    Publisher:  Longmans, London

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    Language: English
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    RVK Categories: HM 4275
    Subjects: Christelijke ethiek; Christentum; Christliche Ethik; Christianity
    Scope: 208 S.
  12. The power of the passive self in English literature
    1640 - 1770
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

  13. Moral und Erfahrung
    Beiträge zur theologisch-ethischen Hermeneutik
    Published: 1977
    Publisher:  Universitätsverl. [u.a.], Freiburg/Schweiz ; Herder, Freiburg [Breisgau], Wien

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  14. Evil and Christian ethics
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 051101211X; 0511034180; 0511152663; 0511605951; 0521771099; 0521797454; 9780511012112; 9780511034183; 9780511152665; 9780511605956; 9780521771092; 9780521797450
    Series: New studies in Christian ethics
    Subjects: Morale chrétienne; Mal; JUVENILE NONFICTION / General; Christelijke ethiek; Het Kwaad; Morale chrétienne; Mal, Problème du / Christianisme; Übel; Christliche Ethik; Das Böse; Christian ethics; Good and evil; Christliche Ethik; Christian ethics; Good and evil; Übel; Das Böse; Christliche Ethik
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 241 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-234) and index

    1 - Christian ethics or moral theology? -- - 2 - The real Jesus -- - 3 - Evil and action -- - 4 - Forces of light and forces of darkness -- - 5 - The transformation of evil -- - 6 - The theology of hope

  15. The power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

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    ISBN: 0511042124; 0511120079; 0511484259; 0521810051; 9780511042126; 9780511120077; 9780511484254; 9780521810050
    Subjects: Littérature anglaise / 18e siècle / Histoire et critique; Passivité (Psychologie) dans la littérature; Littérature anglaise / 17e siècle / Histoire et critique; Christianisme et littérature / Grande-Bretagne / Histoire / 18e siècle; Christianisme et littérature / Grande-Bretagne / Histoire / 17e siècle; Morale dans la littérature; Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Letterkunde; Engels; Passiviteit; Christelijke ethiek; Zelf; Individuum; Literatur; Passivität; Protestantismus; Passivity (Psychology) in literature; English literature / Early modern, 1500-1700 / History and criticism; Christianity and literature / Great Britain / History / 18th century; Christianity and literature / Great Britain / History / 17th century; Ethics in literature; Self in literature; Litterature anglaise / 18e siecle / Histoire et critique; Passivite (Psychologie) dans la litterature; Litterature anglaise / 17e siecle / Histoire et critique; Christianisme et litterature / Grande-Bretagne / Histoire / 18e siecle; Christianisme et litterature / Grande-Bretagne / Histoire / 17e siecle; Morale dans la litterature; Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature; English literature / 18th century / History and criticism; Christliche Ethik; Englisch; Geschichte; Literatur; English literature; Passivity (Psychology) in literature; English literature; Christianity and literature; Christianity and literature; Ethics in literature; Self in literature; Protestantismus; Passivität; Literatur; Englisch; Individuum
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 279 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-272) and index

    Introduction. "Spring and motive of our actions": disinterest and self-interest -- "Acted by another": agency and action in early modern England -- "The belief of the people": Thomas Hobbes and the battle over the heroic -- "For want of some heedfull eye": Mr. Spectator and the power of spectacle -- "For its own sake": virtue and agency in early eighteenth-century England -- "Not perform'd at all": managing Garrick's body in eighteenth-century England -- "I wrote my heart": Richardson's Clarissa and the tactics of sentiment -- Epilogue: "A sign of so noble a passion": the politics of disinterested selves

    "Challenging recent work that contends that seventeenth-century English discourses privilege the notion of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient individual, The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature recovers a counter-tradition that imagines selves as more passively prompted than actively choosing

    This tradition - which Scott Paul Gordon locates in seventeenth-century religious discourse, in early eighteenth-century moral philosophy, in mid eighteenth-century acting theory, and in the emergent novel - resists autonomy and defers agency from the individual to an external "prompter." Gordon argues that the trope of passivity aims to guarantee a disinterested self in a culture that was increasingly convinced that every deliberate action involves calculating one's own interest. Gordon traces the origins of such ideas from their roots in the nonconformist religious tradition to their flowering in one of the central texts of eighteenth-century literature, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa."--Jacket

  16. Scripture and ethics
    twentieth-century portraits
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 019535494X; 1280453397; 1423741323; 9780195354942; 9781280453397; 9781423741329
    RVK Categories: BK 2030
    Subjects: RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics; Christelijke ethiek; Hermeneutiek; Bible / Use / Criticism, interpretation, etc / History / 20th century; Bibel; Christliche Ethik; Geschichte; Hermeneutik; Christian ethics; Christian ethics; Ethics in the Bible; Christliche Ethik
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and indexes

    Reinhold Niebuhr: Scripture as symbol -- H. Richard Niebuhr: Confessing with Scripture -- Bernard Häring: The freedom of responsive love -- Paul Ramsey: Obedient covenant love -- Stanley Hauerwas: The community story of Israel and Jesus -- Gustavo Gutiérrez: Liberating Scriptures of the poor -- James Cone: Scripture in African American liberation -- Rosemary Radford Ruether: Scripture in feminist perspective

    Siker brings together the history of biblical interpretation and the study of uses of the Bible in Christian ethics, to examine how the Bible has actually been used in Christian theological ethics - and in the process profiling eight influential twentieth-century theologians

  17. Gracián and Perfection
    Spanish Moralists of the Seventeenth Century
    Published: [1966]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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    ISBN: 9780674284661
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    Series: Harvard Studies in Romance Languages ; 30
    Subjects: Christelijke ethiek; Didactic literature, Spanish; Ethics, Modern; Spanische und portugiesische Literatur; Didactic literature, Spanish / History and criticism; Ethics, Modern / 17th century; Philosophy, other; Philosophy; Spanish literature / Classical period, 1500-1700 / History and criticism; Spanish literature / Classical period
    Scope: 1 online resource(viii,174p.), illustrations
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  18. Evil and Christian ethics
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 0521771099; 0521797454
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    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: New studies in Christian ethics ; 20
    Subjects: Christelijke ethiek; Het Kwaad; Mal; Mal, Problème du - Christianisme; Morale chrétienne; Morale chrétienne; Christliche Ethik; Christian ethics; Good and evil; Übel; Das Böse; Christliche Ethik
    Scope: XVIII, 241 S.
  19. Die Argumentation des Paulus in ethischen Herausforderungen
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  V & R unipress, Göttingen

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    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    ISBN: 3899711645
    RVK Categories: BC 7280
    DDC Categories: 220; 100; 880
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Subjects: Argumentatie; Brieven van Paulus; Christelijke ethiek; Christliche Ethik; Christian moral exhortation; Christliche Ethik; Zeithintergrund; Rhetorik; Argumentation
    Scope: 341 S.
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    Zugl.: München, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1998

  20. Paul Ricoeur, une poétique de la morale
    aux fondements d'une éthique herméneutique et narrative dans une perspective chrétienne
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Leuven Univ. Press [u.a.], Leuven

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    ISBN: 9068317938; 2877232972; 9061867231
    RVK Categories: BK 1550 ; CI 6197
    Series: Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium ; 124
    Subjects: Christelijke ethiek; Hermeneutiek; Morale - 20e siècle; Morale chrétienne - Histoire - 20e siècle; Christliche Ethik; Geschichte; Hermeneutik; Ethics; Hermeneutics; Poetics; Ethik
    Other subjects: Ricœur, Paul - Bibliographie; Ricœur, Paul - Morale; Ricœur, Paul; Ricœur, Paul (1913-2005)
    Scope: XVI, 706, 6 S.
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    Zugl.: Leuven, Univ., Diss., 1995

  21. Androcles and the lion
    Published: 1957
    Publisher:  Longmans, London

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    RVK Categories: HM 4275
    Subjects: Christelijke ethiek; Christentum; Christliche Ethik; Christianity
    Scope: 208 S.
  22. Beauty and sensibility in the thought of Jonathan Edwards
    an essay in aesthetics and theological ethics
    Published: 1968
    Publisher:  Yale Univ. Press, New Haven [u.a.]

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    RVK Categories: CF 1250 ; HS 3825
    Subjects: Christelijke ethiek; Esthétique; Schoonheid; Christliche Ethik; Ästhetik; Theologie; Ästhetik
    Other subjects: Edwards, Jonathan <1703-1758>; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)
    Scope: XVI, 238 S.
  23. The power of the passive self in English literature, 1640-1770
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

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    "Challenging recent work that contends that seventeenth-century English discourses privilege the notion of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient individual, The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature recovers a counter-tradition that imagines selves as more passively prompted than actively choosing This tradition - which Scott Paul Gordon locates in seventeenth-century religious discourse, in early eighteenth-century moral philosophy, in mid eighteenth-century acting theory, and in the emergent novel - resists autonomy and defers agency from the individual to an external "prompter." Gordon argues that the trope of passivity aims to guarantee a disinterested self in a culture that was increasingly convinced that every deliberate action involves calculating one's own interest. Gordon traces the origins of such ideas from their roots in the nonconformist religious tradition to their flowering in one of the central texts of eighteenth-century literature, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa."--BOOK JACKET

     

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    ISBN: 9780521810050; 0521810051; 0511042124; 9780511042126; 0511120079; 9780511120077; 9780511484254; 0511484259
    RVK Categories: HK 1071 ; HI 1140
    Subjects: English literature; English literature; Christianity and literature; Christianity and literature; Littérature anglaise; Passivité (Psychologie) dans la littérature; Littérature anglaise; Christianisme et littérature; Christianisme et littérature; Morale dans la littérature; Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature; Passivity (Psychology) in literature; Ethics in literature; Self in literature; Christianity and literature; English literature; Christianity and literature; English literature; Passivity (Psychology) in literature; English literature; Christianity and literature; Christianity and literature; Ethics in literature; Self in literature; English literature; Electronic books; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Passivity (Psychology) in literature; English literature ; Early modern, 1500-1700 ; History and criticism; Christianity and literature ; Great Britain ; History ; 18th century; Christianity and literature ; Great Britain ; History ; 17th century; Ethics in literature; Self in literature; Litterature anglaise ; 18e siecle ; Histoire et critique; Passivite (Psychologie) dans la litterature; Litterature anglaise ; 17e siecle ; Histoire et critique; Christianisme et litterature ; Grande-Bretagne ; Histoire ; 18e siecle; Christianisme et litterature ; Grande-Bretagne ; Histoire ; 17e siecle; Morale dans la litterature; Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature; English literature ; 18th century ; History and criticism; Christianity and literature; English literature; English literature ; Early modern; Ethics in literature; Passivity (Psychology) in literature; Self in literature; Letterkunde; Engels; Passiviteit; Christelijke ethiek; Zelf; Individuum; Literatur; Passivität; Protestantismus; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
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    Introduction. "Spring and motive of our actions": disinterest and self-interest"Acted by another": agency and action in early modern England -- "The belief of the people": Thomas Hobbes and the battle over the heroic -- "For want of some heedfull eye": Mr. Spectator and the power of spectacle -- "For its own sake": virtue and agency in early eighteenth-century England -- "Not perform'd at all": managing Garrick's body in eighteenth-century England -- "I wrote my heart": Richardson's Clarissa and the tactics of sentiment -- Epilogue: "A sign of so noble a passion": the politics of disinterested selves.