Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics: On the Person as Classic in Comparative Theological ContextsISBN: 978-1-4443-3682-5
Hardcover
256 pages
March 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics offers a comparative
discussion of the challenges of living a moral religious life. This
is illustrated with a study of two key thinkers, Bonaventure and
Buddhaghosa, who influenced the development of moral thinking in
Christianity and Buddhism respectively.
- Provides an important and original contribution to the comparative study and practice of religious ethics
- Moves away from a comparison of theories by discussing the shared human problem of moral weakness
- Offers an fresh approach with a comparison of the understanding of the problem of moral weakness between the two key thinkers, Bonaventure and Buddhaghosa
- Written by a highly respected academic in the dynamic and fast-growing field of comparative religious ethics