Steven C. van den Heuvel (editor) - Theological Ethics and Moral Value Phenomena: The Experience of Values

The experience of moral values is often side-lined in discussions about moral reasoning, and yet our values define a large part of our moral motives, standards and expectations. Theological Ethics and Moral Value Phenomena explores whether the experience of a meeting point of the immanent and the transcendent, i.e. the moral self and God, can be the source of our values.

The book starts by arguing for a greater theological engagement with value ethics, personalism and the phenomenological method by drawing on thinkers such as Max Scheler and William James. It then provides an understanding of the social and religious dimension of the valuing person, demonstrating the importance of the emotional, as well as the cognitive, dimension of value experience. Finally, this value perspective is utilized to engage with current moral issues such as professional ethics, environmental ethics, economical ethics and family ethics.

Integrating the concepts of religious experience, moral motivation and subjective and objective value within a broad framework of Christian theology and philosophy, this is vital reading for any scholar of Theology and Philosophy with an interest in ethics and moral reasoning.

Steven C. van den Heuvel is a postdoctoral researcher in the department of Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit (ETF), Leuven, Belgium.

Patrick Nullens is full professor of Systematic Theology, with a focus on Christian Ethics, and Rector at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit (ETF), Leuven, Belgium, as well as extraordinary professor of theology at North-West University, South Africa.

Angela Roothaan is assistant professor of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Edited by Steven C. van den Heuvel, Patrick Nullens, and Angela Roothaan

First published 2018

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Names: Heuvel, Steven C. van den, editor.

Title: Theological ethics and moral value phenomena : the experience of values / edited by Steven C. van den Heuvel, Angela Roothaan, and Patrick Nullens.

Description: New York : Routledge, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017025127 | ISBN 9781138087774 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315110257 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Values. | Ethics. | Theology.

Classification: LCC BD232 .T49 2017 | DDC 202dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017025127

ISBN: 978-1-138-08777-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-11025-7 (ebk)

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