Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics: On the Person as Classic in Comparative Theological Contexts

by David A. Clairmont

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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
  • ISBN10 1444336827
  • ISBN13 9781444336825
  • Publish Date 18 February 2011 (first published 1 January 2011)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English