Can we live a good life? Engaging Kretzschmar’s social ethics

Verbum et Ecclesia

 
 
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Title Can we live a good life? Engaging Kretzschmar’s social ethics
 
Creator Bentley, Wessel
 
Subject Christian ethics; Methodology ethics; Louise Kretzschmar; Christian spirituality; Christian leadership; Christian ethics.
Description Louise Kretzschmar has served society, the church and academia as a person who has shaped minds in the fields of Christian spirituality, leadership and ethics. This article seeks to celebrate Kretzschmar’s work as she retires from full-time academia. This article describes Kretzschmar’s notion of a good life, asks why Christians fail in following this good life and concludes by outlining the social-ethical contribution Kretzschmar’s approach can make in society.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article addresses the question of social ethics and its relationship with the processes of spiritual formation and leadership. The argument is based in the Christian faith conviction, with specific reference to the theological position argued by Prof. Louise Kretzschmar.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor None
Date 2022-10-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Literary analysis
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/ve.v43i1.2651
 
Source Verbum et Ecclesia; Vol 43, No 1 (2022); 7 pages 2074-7705 1609-9982
 
Language eng
 
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