Online Christian Ethics & Moral Theology Research Bibliographies
New Books on Ethics (2019) Recommended by Dr. Gordon E. Carkner
Science and the Good: the tragic quest for the foundations of morality by James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky
The Science of Virtue by Mark McMinn
The Language Animal: the full shape of the human linguistic capacity. by Charles Taylor
Other Important Works:
Moral Believing Animals by Christian Smith
Ethics by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
After Virtue by Alasdair McIntyre
In Search of Moral Knowledge by Scot Smith
Resurrection and the Moral Order by Oliver O’Donovan
Choosing the Good: Christian Ethics in a Complex World
The (Un)common Good by Jim Wallis
Sources of the Self by Charles Taylor
https://reconcilers.wordpress.com/2020/08/04/racism-in-america-post-george-floyd/ Imagination, Humour, Commitment, Discernment, Hospitality
Bioethics Bibliography [Last update: May 2, 2015]
Naturalism is a picture of the whole of reality that cannot, according to its own intrinsic premises, address the being of the whole; it is a metaphysics of the rejection of metaphysics, a transcendental certainty of the impossibility of transcendent truth, and so requires an act of pure credence logically immune to any verification…. Thus naturalism must forever remain a pure assertion, a pure conviction, a confession of blind assurance in an inaccessible beyond; and that beyond, more paradoxically still, is the beyond of no beyond. (D.B. Hart, 2013, p. 77)
Modern moral philosophy has miscarried its central objective. Not only has it failed to stem the subjectivization of morality…; it has augmented it in a secular, rationalist register. This failure has quite properly marginalized professional moral philosophy, at least as currently institutionalized, as a realistic resource for resolving any ethical disagreements, because it has no indication of being able to do anything but perpetuate them.” (Alasdair MacIntyre quoted by B. Gregory, 2012, 220)
The commitments to metaphysical naturalism and ideological scientism that govern “public reason” dictate a conception of reality that prevents the grounding of any morality at all…. If metaphysical naturalism is true then human rights are not and cannot be real, natural or discovered. They are at most constructed conventions or useful fictions, but intellectually they are unwarranted remnants from a rejected conception of reality. (Brad Gregory, Notre Dame, 2012, p. 224-5)