Theological Ethics and Moral Value Phenomena

Steven C. van den Heuvel is postdoctoral researcher in the department of Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit (ETF), Leuven, Belgium

The book starts by arguing for a greater theological engagement with value ethics, personalism and the phenomenological method. It then provides an understanding of the social and religious dimension of the valuing person. Finally, this value perspective is utilised to engage with current moral issues.

Introduction: The Experience of Values; Part 1: Return to the Classics; 1 A Pragmatic Ontology of Religious Value Experience: A discussion of Charles Taylor, William James and Max Scheler, Angela Roothaan; 2 The Sentiments of the Heart and Protestant Ethics: A Constructive Dialogue between Paul Ramsey and Max Scheler, Patrick Nullens; 3 Empirically Grounded Ethics and Charles Taylor's Relational Ontology of Goods, Guus Timmerman; 4 The Moral Relevance of Lived Experience in Complex Hospital Practices: A Phenomenological Approach, Frans Vosman; Part 2: The Validating Person; 5 The Self in Exile: Emmanuel Housset's Concept of Personhood, Frits de Lange; 6 Hospitality versus Personalism? Weil, Levinas and Derrida on the Encounter of the Other, Angela Roothaan; 7 Value-Based Ethics in Care, Axel Liégeois; Part 3: Value Ethics in Practice; 8 A 'Value' Prolegomenon for Creation Care: Appropriations from Marion and Levinas, Ronald T. Michener; 9 Loving 'Imagined Communities': A Theological Assessment of the Value of Patriotism, Steven C. van den Heuvel; 10 Revival of the Fitting: Virtue and Relational Experiences of Value, Louke van Wensveen