Conscience and responsibility - Hardcover

Mount, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804208174 ISBN 13: 9780804208178

Publisher: John Knox Press, 1969

Synopsis

Hardcover in dust jacket, FIRST EDITION. Examines the views of Dietrich Bonhoffer, Gerhard Ebeling, James Gustafson, Paul Lehmann, Paul Tillich, Bernhard Haring, Helmut Thielicke, Joseph Fletcher, H. Richard Niebuhr and others. Chapters on Context for a Contemporary Consideration of Conscience; Barriers and Gateways to a Definition of Conscience; Conscience and Community Authority; Conscience in Sin & Salvation; Conscience, Christ & Koinonia; more. Publisher's statement: "Conscience leads a difficult life in today's value vacuum, says Eric Mount, Jr. It has been seduced by Madison Avenue, discounted by neo-behaviorists, banned by totalitarians, liberated by new moralists, relativized by sociologists, and bombarded by Catholics and Protestants. Consequently, conscience is often camouflaged by such terms as identity, integrity, and obligation. But conscience is very much alive as a term and a reality, Dr. Mount contends. Building on the premise that human existence is primarily social, he gives a true definition of conscience. He shows that the inseparability of self and society can be understood best in relation of the concept of responsibility."

Edition details

• Publisher: John Knox Press
• Publication date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804208174
• ISBN 13: 9780804208178
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 191