{"product_id":"altruism-and-christian-ethics-new-studies-in-christian-ethics-series-number-18-0521791448","title":"Altruism and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics, Series Number 18)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521791448\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Grant, Colin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeparated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterized by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity, so that its dismissal represents a social leveling that loses the depths that theology makes intelligible and religion makes possible. He argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and with the divine transformation of human possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51939966714144,"sku":"NEW0521791448","price":80.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/altruism-and-christian-ethics-new-studies-in-christian-ethics-series-number-18-0521791448","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}