The Harm Principle and Christian Belief

The article addresses the question why Christians often fail to achieve even the minimum standard of secular morality. It isolates from a long list of failures the undermining and maltreatment of women and sexual minorities. It describes four types of violence – gender, epistemic, symbolic, and herm...

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Autor principal:	Adrian Thatcher
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	University of Sheffield 2021
Materias:	discipleship euthyphro dilemma gender violence hermeneutics sexual ethics sola scriptura The Bible BS1-2970
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9be8ab6bc97b4eca8feed765f82bd8842021-11-18T14:47:02ZThe Harm Principle and Christian Belief2633-069510.17613/y3ea-dm89https://doaj.org/article/9be8ab6bc97b4eca8feed765f82bd8842021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://hcommons.org/deposits/view/hc:34434/CONTENT/1-thatcher-harm-principle-and-christian-belief-jibs-2.2-2021-5-24.pdf/https://doaj.org/toc/2633-0695The article addresses the question why Christians often fail to achieve even the minimum standard of secular morality. It isolates from a long list of failures the undermining and maltreatment of women and sexual minorities. It describes four types of violence – gender, epistemic, symbolic, and hermeneutic – they are made to endure. It then undertakes a theological and philosophical analysis of some of the causes of failure, locating them in i) the moral hazards of “divine command ethics”; ii) the promulgation of immoral doctrines; iii) the perils of “costly discipleship”; iv) the quest for certainty; and v) adherence to the scripture principle or sola scriptura.Adrian ThatcherUniversity of Sheffieldarticlediscipleshipeuthyphro dilemmagender violencehermeneuticssexual ethicssola scripturaThe BibleBS1-2970ENJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 5-24 (2021)
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description	The article addresses the question why Christians often fail to achieve even the minimum standard of secular morality. It isolates from a long list of failures the undermining and maltreatment of women and sexual minorities. It describes four types of violence – gender, epistemic, symbolic, and hermeneutic – they are made to endure. It then undertakes a theological and philosophical analysis of some of the causes of failure, locating them in i) the moral hazards of “divine command ethics”; ii) the promulgation of immoral doctrines; iii) the perils of “costly discipleship”; iv) the quest for certainty; and v) adherence to the scripture principle or sola scriptura.
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The Harm Principle and Christian Belief

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