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Author Gill, Robin.

Title Churchgoing and Christian ethics / Robin Gill.

Publication Info. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series New studies in Christian ethics
New studies in Christian ethics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-273) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Part One: the theoretical context -- Churchgoing and the bias of virtue ethicists -- Churchgoing and the bias of sociologists -- Four theories of churchgoing -- Part Two: The evidence -- the British household panel survey -- Faith in British social attitude surveys -- Moral order in British social attitudes surveys -- Love in British social attitudes surveys -- Part Three: The implications -- Churchgoing and Christian identity -- Churches and moral disagreement.
Summary Robin Gill argues that once moral communities (such as churchgoers) take centre stage in ethics - as they do in virtue ethics - then there should be a greater interest in sociological evidence about these communities. This book examines recent evidence, gathered from social attitude surveys, about church communities, in particular their views on faith, moral order and love. It shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes and behaviour. Some of their attitudes change over time, and there are a number of obvious moral disagreements between different groups of churchgoers. Nonetheless, there are broad patterns of Christian beliefs, teleology and altruism which distinguish churchgoers as a whole from non-churchgoers. However, the values, virtues, moral attitudes and behaviour of churchgoers are shared by many other people as well. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is crucial for the task of Christian ethics.
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Subject Christian ethics -- Great Britain -- Public opinion.
Christian ethics.
Great Britain.
Public opinion.
Christians -- Great Britain -- Attitudes.
Christians.
Church attendance -- Great Britain.
Church attendance.
Public opinion -- Great Britain.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Gill, Robin. Churchgoing and Christian ethics. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521570581 (DLC) 98053583 (OCoLC)40473786
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