Scott B. Rae

کتاب تصمیمات اخلاقی، به یک معنی، اولین کتاب جدی است که در زمینۀ اخلاقیات مسیحی به زبان فارسی ترجمه و منتشر می]شود. این کتاب مهمترین اصول اخلاقیات مسیحی را معرفی می]کند و می]کوشد بدون درغلطیدن به دامان ساده]اندیشی و داوری]های شتاب]زده، با بررسی برخی از مهمترین مسائل اخلاقی]ای که انسان معاصر با آنها روبه]روست، از چشم]اندازی کتاب]مقدسی نگرشی اخلاقی در مورد آنها عرضه کند. کتاب در ابتدا نظریه]ها و نظام]های اخلاقی گوناگون را معرفی می]کند، سپس اصول و مبانی بنیادین اخلاقیات مسیحی را مطرح می]نماید. ظدر این کتاب به آثار اندیشمندانی که در زمینۀ فلسفۀ اخلاق قلم زده]اند، اندیشمندانی چون افلاطون، ارسطو، آگوستین، آکویناس و عمانوئل کانت پرداخته می]شود. سپس نویسنده برای اتخاذ تصمیم اخلاقی در مورد موضوعات پیچیدۀ دنیای معاصر، روشی هفت مرحله]ای را معرفی می]کند و سپس در برخورد با مسائل گوناگون آن را به]کار می]گیرد. برخی از موضوعاتی که نویسنده به آنها می]پردازد عبارتند از سقط جنین، فن]آوری]های تولید مثل، امور جنسی و همجنس]گرایی، جنگ، مجازات اعدام، جامعۀ سرمایه]داری و اخلاق کار.

According to author Scott B. Rae in Doing the Right Thing, our culture is in an ethical mess because we've neglected moral training and education. This book proposes that there is such a thing as moral truth, that it can be known, and that it can be put into practice. Looking specifically at the areas of medicine, the marketplace, public life, education, and the family, Rae shows how foundational ethical principles can guide you in making moral day-to-day decisions. Informed by Scripture and calling for a renewed understanding of the importance of the Christian faith in moral training, Doing the Right Thing issues a call for cultivated virtue that can bring about both better lives and a better society. You will find yourself examining the ways in which ethical and character issues relate to your life. As a result, you will be better equipped to promote virtue in your own spheres of influence and the culture at large.

Is business just a way to make money? Or can the marketplace a venue for service to others? Scott B. Rae and Kenman L. Wong seek to explore this and other critical business issues from a uniquely Christian perspective, offering up a vision for work and service that is theologically grounded and practically oriented. Among the specific questions they address along the way are these: What implications does the Christian story have for the vision, mission or sense of purpose that shapes business engagement?What parts of business can be affirmed and practiced "as is" and what parts need to be rejected or transformed? What challenges exist as attempts are made to live out Christian ideals in a broken world characterized by tight margins, fierce competition and short-term investor pressures? How do Christian values inform specific functional areas of business such as the management of people, marketing and environmental sustainability? Business can be even more than an environment through which individual Christians grow in Christlikeness. In this book you'll discover how it can also be a means toward serving the common good. The Christian Worldview Integration Series, edited by J. P. Moreland and Francis J. Beckwith, seeks to promote a robust personal and conceptual integration of Christian faith and learning, with textbooks focused on disciplines such as education, psychology, literature, politics, science, communications, biology, philosophy, and history.

The authors assess various secular approaches to bioethics that are particularly influential today and develop a framework for a Christian approach to assist people in addressing the many pressing issues in the field. Throughout, the authors touch on the numerous debated issues in bioethics though they are primarily concerned to give an account of the central theological notions crucial to an informed Christian perspective on bioethics.