Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World : Essays in Honour of Roger C. Hutchinson

by Airhart, Phyllis D.; Legge, Marilyn J.; Redcliffe, Gary L.

• ISBN13: 9780889204102
• ISBN10: 0889204101
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

Summary

Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World is an apt title for this collection of essays in honour of Roger C. Hutchinson who, over many decades, has encouraged and participated in shaping a Canadian contextual social ethics. His abiding interest in social ethics and in religious engagement with public issues is reflected in his life's work - seeking the consensus and self- knowledge required to achieve cooperation in the search for a just, participatory, and sustainable society. One of Roger Hutchinson's many notable accomplishments is his development of a method of dialogue for ethical clarification in situations of diversity. Some of the essays collected here apply this method to specific issues, while others discuss how religious persons and organizations can and do co-operate in a pluralistic world to achieve social and ecological well-being. All essays are of keen interest to those concerned with the role and function of ethics at the matrix of religious conviction and social transformation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(12)
Phyllis D. Airhart
Marilyn J. Legge
Gary L. Redcliffe
Roger Hutchinson as Ethicist and Educator in an Age of Religious Pluralism	13	(26)
C. Douglas Jay
The Church and Pluralism in Quebec: An Account of a Participant	39	(18)
Gregory Baum
Karl Barth on Divine Command: A Jewish Response	57	(20)
David Novak
Not Moral Heroes: The Grace of God and the Church's Public Voice	77	(22)
Harold Wells
``O Day of God, Draw Nigh'': R. B. Y. Scott, the Church and the Call for Social Reconstruction	99	(14)
Ian Manson
Ethical Values and Canadian Foreign Policy	113	(22)
Cranford Pratt
Ecological Ethics: Roger Hutchinson's Methodology and Engagement in Canadian Initiatives	135	(14)
David G. Hallman
Genetically Modified Food: Beauty or the Beast?	149	(18)
Karen Krug
Beyond ``Survival of the Fittest'': Pastoral Resources for Rebuilding Rural Community	167	(36)
Cameron R. Harder
Fetal Assessment: A Feminist Approach to a Bioethical Case Study Using Hutchinson's Method of Ethical Clarification	203	(20)
Tracy J. Trothen
Are Clergy Ethics a Matter of Common Sense?	223	(16)
Christopher Lind
Spirituality and Justice-Making in a City Context	239	(12)
Joe Mihevc
Select Bibliography of Roger Hutchinson	251	(6)
Contributors	257