The Distinction between Theology and Ethics: A Critical History.
This article sketches an intellectual history of the distinction between Christian theology and Christian ethics. The twists and turns of that history have been obscured by a recent tendency to deny the distinction's usefulness, as part of a wider strategy for reasserting theology's relevance to mod...
| Published in: | Journal of Religious Ethics Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 209 - 231 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2024
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