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Fact and Value in Theological Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. D. Galloway
Affiliation:
Professor of Divinity, The University of Glasgow

Extract

Lady Oppenheimer has shown the need to preserve the richness of religious language and the language of vision if we are to talk about the reality of Christian ethics rather than some skeletal caricature of it. The problem is how to preserve such richness in the face of the astringent effect of the fact/value dichotomy in logic and the principle of the ‘naturalistic fallacy’. Therefore, rather than attempt to develop or comment directly upon Lady Oppenheimer's sensitive and perceptive exposition of the richness of some Christian ethico-theological concepts I am inclined to relate it to some of the earlier papers and to make some suggestions about the kind of prolegomenon I would like to write for it.

Type
Section I: Christian Philosophy and Ethics
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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