Conscience in World Religions

by Hoose, Jayne

• ISBN13: 9780268023539
• ISBN10: 0268023530
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Summary

Conscience in World Religions is a unique collection of papers which allows the reader to compare and contrast the origins and development of the concept of conscience within different Christian traditions, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism.

The first part of the book, based upon extensive research of the Christian debate of conscience, explores the dynamic relation between authority, revelation, and education for both the individual and the community. It provides the reader with an insight into approaches to and interpretations of sources found within Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodoxy. The second part of the text provides an enthralling and scholarly study of the previously relatively unexplored Jewish, Islamic, and Buddhist viewpoints on the concept of conscience.

This book is a thought-provoking collection for all those interested in exploring the many facets of this most fascinating of subjects.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vi
Foreword	viii
Part One
A History of the Western Idea of Conscience	3	(18)
Helen Costigane SHCS
Against Conscience: a Protestant View	21	(41)
Dave Leal
Conscience in the Roman Catholic Tradition	62	(37)
Jayne Hoose
Conscience in Orthodox Thought	99	(30)
Stephen Thomas
Part Two
Consience in Jewish Tradition	129	(26)
Jonathan Gorsky
Islam and Conscience	155	(21)
Ron Geaves
Buddhism and Conscience	176
George D. Chryssides