{"product_id":"to-what-end-a-nondual-christian-ethics-of-love-harm-and-liberation-9798197159090","title":"To What End?: A Nondual Christian Ethics of Love, Harm, and Liberation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James Foster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ethics \u0026amp; Moral Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNo finite act carries its moral meaning inside itself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian ethics has spent centuries cataloguing permitted and forbidden acts as though the acts themselves settle the question. Lying is always wrong. Killing is always wrong. Except when it isn't - and every tradition that claims otherwise has built its own exceptions, qualifications, and workarounds, then pretended the system was still absolute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo What End?\u003c\/i\u003e dismantles this fiction. Dr. James Foster argues that every act receives its moral meaning from five dimensions - root, context, telos, fruit, and formation - and that the real question of Christian ethics has never been \u003ci\u003eWhat was done?\u003c\/i\u003e but \u003ci\u003eBeneficial or harmful, and to what end?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not relativism. It is harder than relativism, and harder than the rule-keeping it replaces. A contextual ethic demands more formation, more honesty, and more willingness to see yourself clearly than any catechism ever required. The book provides the grammar for that seeing: a fivefold field of discernment grounded in nondual Christian theology, tested against Buddhist moral reasoning and the tradition of situation ethics, and applied under pressure to the questions that matter most - violence, death, sex, money, truth, obedience, mercy, and punishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Dionysius, Maximus, Eckhart, and Aquinas (engaged as a worthy opponent), and informed by twenty years of clinical psychology practice, \u003ci\u003eTo What End?\u003c\/i\u003e is written for readers who find pop-spirituality hollow and academic theology lifeless - readers who want rigorous argument from a writer who knows the territory from the inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eActs are relative. The End is absolute.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891823296663,"sku":"9798197159090","price":1737.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197159090.webp?v=1781184893","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/to-what-end-a-nondual-christian-ethics-of-love-harm-and-liberation-9798197159090","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}