............................................................................................................................ iv Key Themes ............................................................................................................................. vi GLOSSARY of ACRONYMS and ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................ vii LIST OF TABLES AND DIAGRAMS ................................................................................. viii CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................. ix CHAPTER ONE ....................................................................................................................... 1 INTRODUCING THE STUDY ............................................................................................ 1 1.

Faith and resilience in child or youth-headed households in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

The purpose of this article is to study critically the positions of six authors on the foundations of the professions and of professional ethics. These positions are placed along a continuum which is created by correlating two variables that appear in each author's writings. The implied or explicit anthropology and metaethical theory of the authors are central concerns of the study. The issue whether the professional is governed by role-specific duties or by role-distinctive duties is analyzed in depth. In the end, the author cannot accept any of the six positions and so the final section of the article fashions a constructive proposal grounded in a social metaphysics of the human person.

The Foundations of the Professions and of Professional Ethics: A Critical and Constructive Study

The question of the sources for Christian Ethics has been a perennial problem. In the first part of this study a heuristic continuum is set up in order to examine briefly six ways of relating faith and morality at the level of sources for Christian ethics which some theologians have actually adopted (e.g., Karl Barth and James Gustafson). In the second part, the author's own constructive proposal is offered along with a critical analysis of the previous positions. It is argued that a critical-dialogical relation between faith and morality offers the best possibilities both for preserving the relative autonomy of each and for utilizing the resources of faith and morality in the discipline of Christian ethics.

James J. Walter

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The Relation between Faith and Morality: Sources For Christian Ethics

The Foundations of the Professions and of Professional Ethics: A Critical and Constructive Study