Where Christ Presides

Цена 10.68 - 11.25 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781632327666

Брэнд Redemption Press

Автор


Страниц 176

Год выпуска 2014

During a debate concerning intelligent design theory, an unidentified woman lamented, "I"m facing chaos everywhere I look. I want to go to a church where they"re going to tell me what"s right, what"s wrong, and there"s no in between." Because moral discernment is difficult, Christians often abdicate their ethical positions to the authoritarian dictates of their faith tradition. Such a response raises a host of morally pertinent questions: * Do we have a moral responsibility to make our own ethical decisions? * If we decide to abdicate all moral decisions to others, are we in some way rejecting our God-given gift of reason? * Can we rest assured that God will accept, "I did what they told me to do," as justification for our ethical behaviors? * If not, then how do we decide what is right and what is wrong? "Where Christ Presides: A Quaker Perspective on Moral Discernment" presents a guide for readers to examine their own method of moral discernment within a Christ-centered...