Abstract
Joseph Selling proposes a contemporary revision of natural law ethics, making it more person-centered. Earlier James Gustafson insisted that natural law ethics was too egoist or anthropocentric, so his work proposed theocentrism as a corrective. Richard Gula in turn proposed an ethics that centers on imitating God’s relationships. This essay combines the merits of all three with the author’s own love-covenant basis for ethics. It contrasts secular and religious ethics, with the latter incorporating cooperation in communion with God. One strand of Aquinas’s theology indicates that religious discernment is an affective process of union with God, but the typical ways of describing this union court significant dangers of reducing either God to self or self to God.
Highlights
As I began my career as a theologian, I was fortunate to have the famous Christian ethicist, JamesGustafson, as a colleague
I witnessed Gustafson becoming red in the face as he argued that Christian ethics had lost its center, namely, God
Joseph Selling challenges the adequacy of natural law
Summary
As I began my career as a theologian, I was fortunate to have the famous Christian ethicist, James. I was deeply influenced by a particular polemic that he, like a modern day Jeremiah, waged against any and all One time he was asked to address senior faculty members at the University of Chicago on the topic of “Say Something Theological.”. The first task in order of importance is to establish convictions about God and God’s relations to the world” Joseph Selling challenges the adequacy of natural law. He proposes “that the new standard for determining this ethical language is the human person, integrally and adequately considered”. The difference between my own view and that of Selling is the centrality of God, and the difference between my view and that Gustafson is the centrality of love
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