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The Practice of the Body of Christ' forges connections between two movements in today’s theological disciplines. The first is the so-called “apocalyptic” interpretation of Paul and the second is often called “virtue ethics.”
Colin Miller claims that a virtue ethic, or a classical account of human agency, has much to contribute to an apocalyptic reading of Paul’s letters, and finds in Romans a classical account of human action in many ways like the one philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre develops in his work, but not finally reducible to it.
Miller expounds a MacIntyrian virtue ethic through Paul via Romans that will be of interest to anyone involved in Pauline studies, philosophy of religion or theology.
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Father Colin D. Miller (PhD, Duke University) is Associate Rector for Urban Ministry at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a member of Peter Maurin Catholic Worker House in Durham, North Carolina.
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...this is a book that rightly presses for more ethical and ecclesiological engagement in apocalyptic readings of Paul....the book contributes in important ways to contemporary Pauline hermeneutics.
(Alexandra R. Brown, Theology Vol 118, No. 5, 2015)
Those familiar with MacIntyre will appreciate the well-developed section on his reading of Augustine, not to mention the mature deconstruction of the modern moral tradition. ... For my own part, I find him persuasive.
(Michael Lakey (57.2), March 2016)
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