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Ethics After Easter (New Church's Teaching Series Book 9) Kindle Edition

by Stephen Holmgren (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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In this volume of The New Church's Teaching Series, Stephen Holmgren introduces us to the world of Anglican ethics and moral theology. He focuses on questions all people of faith must ask: How will I keep my baptismal promises? How am I meant to live “after Easter?”

In developing a distinctively Anglican approach to ethics, with its emphasis on holiness, sanctification, and the need for spiritual disciplines, Holmgren identifies clear axioms for Anglican moral theology and the ethos required for moral decision-making on the part of individuals and church bodies. He explains why ethical reflection is not the same as church governance, and why the institution cannot “make” its moral theology.

Holmgren also discusses the role of conscience and reason, the work of moral discernment, the difference between moral knowledge and saving knowledge, the meaning of natural law, and the high value Anglicans place on consensus. The final chapter provides a methodology for building a moral case in Christian ethics, specifically on Christian involvement with war and violence.

As with each book in The New Church's Teaching Series, recommended resources for further reading and questions for discussion are included.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009D1S374
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cowley Publications
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 25, 2000
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  • Lisa P.
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    SO quick. My Theology professor recommended this book after I complained the one we were using was out of date. This is an excellent resource for modern theology. Thank you for getting it to me fast enough to use for end of term papers. This book was in perfect condition and arrived very quickly. Thank you!!
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  • Ed Barton
    4.0 out of 5 stars Moral Theology in the Anglican Tradition
    Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2011
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    Stephen Holmgren's book is really a discussion on how to live a Christian life in the Anglican tradition. The "doing" of moral theology in the Anglican/Episcopalian tradition, like many other elements of Anglicanism, is based on scripture, reason and tradition to develop principles. In fact, Holmgren argues persuasively that moral theology is a series of axioms to live by, and that by so doing, you follow the Anglican Christian tradition. He discusses the role of conscience, reason, situational ethics, natural law, scriptural context and divine grace and the cycle of fall and redemption through saving grace. A good handbook for ethical decisionmaking and learning an effective framework for "doing" Christian ethical and moral theology.
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  • DDM
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great tool
    Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2015
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    Great series from an Anglican point of view.
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  • cmallinfla@aol.com
    2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing and of little value
    Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2013
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    This book is turgid and obtuse. Whatever value there is is hidden within a great deal of verbaige and repetition. I am sorry that this subject which is an important one is made unaccessible to most readers.
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  • kross3rd
    5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended
    Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2015
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    This is an excellent book by a first-rate, Oxford-trained scholar and Episcopal priest. Not unexpectedly, it examines the big questions in ethics and moral theology from an Anglican perspective. It is wide-ranging and designed to give the reader a foundation and framework for additional study. It is neither simplistic nor obtuse as other reviewers have stated (it would be a singular accomplishment to be both). Rather, this book is a clear-headed and comprehensive treatment that avoids the temptation to treat complex issues as simple or simple issues as obscure. It is a uniquely and unapologetically Christian view of ethics (as one would expect from a church series) and not a mash-up of anthropology, sociology and psychology. Syncretists need not apply. Other fields of inquiry do have something to say about ethics but they are not Christian ethics. This book, and others in the New Church’s Teaching Series, provide a solid basis for Christians to learn about their faith, think critically, inquire broadly, and grow. Highly recommended.
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  • FrKurt Messick
    4.0 out of 5 stars How should one act?
    Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2004
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    The Episcopal church in the twentieth century took advantage of the general availability of publishing to good advantage, compiling through several auspices different collections and teaching series, the latest of which was only completed a few years ago. There have been 'unofficial' collections of teaching texts, such as the Anglican Studies Series by Morehouse press, put out in the 1980s, as well as an earlier teaching series. However, each generation approaches things anew; the New Church Teaching Series, published by Cowley Publications (a company operated as part of the ministry of the Society of St. John the Evangelist - SSJE - one of the religious/monastic communities in the Episcopal church, based in the Boston area) is the most recent series, and in its thirteen volumes, explores in depth and breadth the theology, history, liturgy, ethics, mission and more of the modern Anglican vision in America.
    This ninth volume, 'Ethics after Easter' by Stephen Holmgren, looks at the issues of ethics and morality in an Anglican fashion. The first question Holmgren addresses is what are called to do from our Baptimal covenant? How now should we live? There are questions in this of worship, of theology and of spirituality, but Holmgren specifically addresses the question from the standpoint of moral theology - a high-sounding phrase that really focuses upon the basic question of our vision of God, and how God would want us to live.
    There is much discernment to be done, by the individual and by the community. Holmgren addresses topics such as social justice, war and peace, sin, love, and other key issues. He sets out various approaches to ethics - do we look at the issue from the standpoint of human civil laws, or from the standpoint of God's desires for us, or both? Drawing from this, there are three ethical approaches - natural law, the historicist view, and the 'positivist' view, the one where we make a choice based on our own and communal discernment. None of these are guaranteed to give a right or wrong answer (indeed, all may lead to the wrong answer!), and rarely are any used in exclusion of the others.
    Holmgren looks the issues of sin, love, law, justification, sanctification and many other 'theological' concepts in application to daily life and work, as well as broader planning and communal living and decision-making. At the end of each chapter, Holmgren sets forth axiomatic statements that build a framework (axioms are basic 'truths' widely accepted as being true, relevant and applicable generally). The system of twenty-two axioms are set out in the conclusion/appendix.
    Stephen Holmgren is an Episcopal priest in Wisconsin, having also served in Tennessee. He is a professor of ethics and moral theology at Nashota House, one of the Episcopal seminaries in the church. He also is active in the area of medical ethics, and is a regular conference leader and speaker.
    Each of the texts is relatively short (only two of the volumes exceed 200 pages), the print and text of each easy to read, designed not for scholars but for the regular church-goer, but not condescending either - the authors operate on the assumption that the readers are genuinely interested in deepening their faith and practice. Each volume concludes with questions for use in discussion group settings, and with annotated lists of further readings recommended.
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  • sls
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh approach to Christianity
    Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2007
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    I highly recommend this book. It's a very fresh, diverse, and multicultural approach to Christianity and moral ethics in general. It's very easy reading in lay person's terms.
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