Contemporary Applications

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198830221.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Michael W. Austin

Keyword(s):

Family Life ◽

Religious Pluralism ◽

Social Ethics ◽

Spiritual Disciplines

This chapter examines how the Christian virtue of humility is applicable to issues in personal and social ethics. It demonstrates several ways in which humility can be robustly action-guiding. The chapter also explores some of the ways in which humility is relevant to many of the classic spiritual disciplines, such as prayer, fasting, solitude, silence, and service. Next, it considers humility’s relevance to issues concerning religious pluralism and tolerance. It concludes with a discussion of the variety of ways in which humility is essential for a flourishing family life and its status as a virtue in the context of sport.

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Humility and Human Flourishing

10.1093/oso/9780198830221.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Michael W. Austin

Keyword(s):

Virtue Ethics ◽

New Testament ◽

Family Life ◽

Religious Pluralism ◽

Moral Virtue ◽

Spiritual Disciplines ◽

Analytic Philosophy ◽

Moral Theology ◽

Spiritual Life ◽

Human Flourishing

In many Christian traditions, humility is often thought to play a central role in the moral and spiritual life. In this study of the moral virtue of humility, the methods of analytic philosophy are applied to the field of moral theology in order to analyze this virtue and its connections to human flourishing. The book is therefore best characterized as a work in analytic moral theology, and has two primary aims. First, it articulates and defends a particular Christian conception of the virtue of humility. It offers a Christological account of this trait, one that is grounded in the gospel accounts of the life of Christ as well as other key New Testament passages. The view of humility it offers and defends is biblically grounded, theologically informed, and philosophically sound. Second, this book describes ways in which humility is constitutive of and conducive to human flourishing, Christianly understood. It argues that humility is rational, benefits its possessor, and contributes to its possessor being good qua human. It also examines several issues in applied virtue ethics. It considers some of the ways in which humility is relevant to several of the classic spiritual disciplines, such as prayer, fasting, solitude, silence, and service. It considers humility’s relevance to issues related to religious pluralism and tolerance. Finally, the book concludes with a discussion of the relevance of humility for family life and how it can function as a virtue in the context of sport.

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Christian-Muslim couples in the Veneto region, northeastern Italy: Dealing with religious pluralism in everyday family life

Social Compass ◽

10.1177/0037768614561151 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 62 (1) ◽

pp. 43-60 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Francesco Cerchiaro ◽

Stef Aupers ◽

Dick Houtman

Keyword(s):

Family Life ◽

Religious Pluralism ◽

Veneto Region ◽

Northeastern Italy

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Marriage and family in view of the doctrine of the covenant

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies ◽

10.4102/hts.v72i3.3218 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 72 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jakobus M. Vorster

Keyword(s):

Family Life ◽

Social Ethics ◽

Western Culture ◽

Christian Ethics ◽

Traditional View ◽

Theoretical Argument ◽

Marriage And Family ◽

Gay Couples ◽

Civil Unions ◽

Post Modernism

New emerging paradigms in Western culture have produced a new ethic. Not only social ethics in general but the ethics of marriage and family life are changing rapidly. This new ethic has inter alia a strong bearing on marriage and family life, relationships explained by traditional Christian ethics. The traditional idea of heterosexual official marriages is challenged by new forms of civil relationships such as cohabitation, temporary relationships and civil unions between gay couples. Scholars even speak of the postmodernist marriage that, according to them, differs entirely from the traditional Christian idea of marriage. This article focuses on the concepts of marriage and family life against the background of the emerging postmodern and post-secular ethic and its consequences for the traditional view of marriage as a biblical institution. The central theoretical argument is that the concept of marriage in the biblical testimony should be defined and developed within the doctrine of the covenant and that such as view, with certain modifications, can still provide ethical directives and new perspectives on marital life for Christians today.Keywords: Marriage; Covenant; Post Modernism: Secular; Family

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‘The Testimony Must Begin in the Home’: The Life of Salvation and the Remaking of Homes in the East African Revival in Southern Uganda, c. 1930-1955

Journal of Religion in Africa ◽

10.1163/15700666-12340021 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 44 (3-4) ◽

pp. 309-332 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jason Bruner

Keyword(s):

East Africa ◽

Family Life ◽

Religious Beliefs ◽

Spiritual Disciplines ◽

East African ◽

Colonial Era ◽

Revival Movement ◽

Eternal Salvation

The late colonial era in Uganda was not an easy time to keep families intact. Colonial officials, missionaries, and concerned East Africans offered their diagnoses of the problems and prescriptions for responding to the dilemma. In this context, Balokole Anglican revivalists articulated new patterns and ideals of family life. These new patterns of family life were not uniform across Uganda or East Africa, but they did share common characteristics that were derived from the spiritual disciplines and religious beliefs of the Balokole revival. As such, this essay argues that the revival movement was not simply a new message of eternal salvation or primarily a form of dissent, but rather a means through which a group of African Christians sought to address quotidian domestic problems and concerns of late-colonial East Africa.

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