Product Description
Questions About Life and Morality – Christian Ethics in South Africa Today
Authors: L Kretzschmar, L Hulley
Format: Physical Hardcopy
Many people in South Africa are concerned with ethical matters - both as an academic pursuit and by religious conviction. The topics discussed in this publication are of the utmost importance to South Africans as they search for a new identity in a so-called secular community.
A reader for academics and lay-people alike, this study empowers one to make up ones own mind with regard to ethical issues and related Biblical guidelines.
Contents:
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Ethics in South Africa today
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PART 1 – WHAT IS ETHICS?
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Chapter 1. Morality and life
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Chapter 2. What about the Bible and ethics?
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Chapter 3. Ethics in an African context
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PART 2 – ETHICAL, SEXUAL AND MEDICAL QUESTIONS
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Chapter 4. Human sexuality and ethics
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Chapter 5. To marry or not to marry: that is the question
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Chapter 6. Contraception and abortion
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Chapter 7. Some key issues in medical ethics
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PART 3 – SOCIAL PROBLEMS WE FACE IN SOCIETY
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Chapter 8. What is social ethics?
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Chapter 9. Aluta continua – toward an ethic for socio-political transformation
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Chapter 10. Racism in the post-apartheid South Africa
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Chapter 11. Gender, women and ethics
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Chapter 12. The burden of moral guilt: its theological and political implications
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PART 4 – ETHICAL ISSUES IN ECOLOGY, DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS
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Chapter 13. The Gold Fields Faith and Earthkeeping Project: A theological and ethical discussion
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Chapter 14. The ethics of sustainable development
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Chapter 15. The ethics of reconstruction
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Chapter 16. Business ethics
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PART 5 – WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Chapter 17. Challenges for moral systems
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