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- Human Perfection, Transfiguration and Christian Ethics
- Reviews
- New Studies in Christian Ethics
- Human Perfection, Transfiguration and Christian Ethics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Human Perfection
- Chapter 1 Homo Perfectus
- Chapter 2 Glimpses of Artistic Perfection
- Chapter 3 Moral Perfection
- Chapter 4 Perfectionism
- Part II Jesus’ Perfection
- Part III Transfiguration and Global Perfection
- Select Bibliography in Christian Ethics
- Index
- Titles Published in the Series (continued from page )
- References
Chapter 3 - Moral Perfection
from Part I - Human Perfection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 May 2024
- Human Perfection, Transfiguration and Christian Ethics
- Reviews
- New Studies in Christian Ethics
- Human Perfection, Transfiguration and Christian Ethics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Human Perfection
- Chapter 1 Homo Perfectus
- Chapter 2 Glimpses of Artistic Perfection
- Chapter 3 Moral Perfection
- Chapter 4 Perfectionism
- Part II Jesus’ Perfection
- Part III Transfiguration and Global Perfection
- Select Bibliography in Christian Ethics
- Index
- Titles Published in the Series (continued from page )
- References
Summary
Chapter 3 takes a more biographical approach, seeing an example of moral human perfection in the, little known, but dedicated, life and work of Dr Henry Holland, a medical missionary in North India, compared favourably with the well-known, but flawed, medical missionary work of his more famous exact contemporary Albert Schweitzer. Together with the two earlier chapters, it is suggested that human perfection – understood in the contextual sense of it being difficult to see how something similar could at the time have been done better – is dynamic rather than absolute, just as John Wesley, Calvin, Aquinas and Gregory claimed, is highly focused and requires very considerable effort and hard work -- striving to get something as near to perfect as humanly possible. It concludes with a discussion of the recent work of the late Catholic medical anthropologist Paul Farmer.
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- Human Perfection, Transfiguration and Christian Ethics , pp. 63 - 81Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024