Virtues and Values : The African and African American Experience

by Paris, Peter J.

• ISBN13: 9780800636616
• ISBN10: 0800636619
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

In this small gem of moral reflection, renowned ethicist Peter Paris reveals key elements of a distinctive African worldview. Centered in concepts of God, community, family, and person, they ground the virtues and values most prized by African Americans and African peoples everywhere. Adapted from Paris's acclaimed volume The Spirituality of African Peoples, the book sketches a rich alternative and corrective to individualist western ethics and provides a potent resource for religious ethics today. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Peter J. Paris is Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The African Factor in the African American Experience	1	(4)
Virtue Theory	5	(14)
Some African and African American Moral Virtues	19	(50)
The Christian Factor in African and African American Social Ethics	69	(8)
Notes	77