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Virtue Ethics And The Place Of Character Formation Within Lutheran Theology, Joel Biermann
Virtue Ethics And The Place Of Character Formation Within Lutheran Theology, Joel Biermann
Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation
This study strives to provide a way for all parish pastors to reconsider the task of providing ethical training in a parish setting. The intent of this investigation is to encourage a shift in perception that will allow training in ethics to be evaluated and eventually adopted as both practically positive and theologically valid. Failing that ambitious goal, the study can at least prompt further discussion of the appropriate place of training in ethics, that is, teaching the practical matters of living the Christian life. Understood scripturally, the goal is quite simply to provide a way for congregations faithfully to …