TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adeney,Bernard T.
TI  - Strange virtues: ethics in multicultural world 
SN  - 0830818553 (alk. paper)
AV  - BR 115.C8 A33 1995
U1  - 241 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Downers Grove, Ill.
PB  - InterVarsity Press
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - Ethics, Comparative
KW  - Christian ethics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p.[259]-281) and index; Contents;  	Introduction to crosscultural ethics --
Practicing theology in crosscultural experience --
Knowledge, friendship and wisdom --
The Bible and culture in ethics --
Cultural value orientations in contrast --
Strange communications --
Ethical theory and bribery --
The ethical challenge of other religions --
Women and men as strangers : gender conflict across cultures --
The unity of personal and social ethics --
Appendix : Maps or models of cultural value differences
N2  - Summary; Strange Virtues is one of the first books to comprehensively consider ethics across cultures, addressing the ethical import of other religions and gender relations, exploring how the Bible and culture interact to produce ethical stances, and examining such particular case studies as bribery. It will be invaluable not only for missionaries, ethicists and students, but for all Christians who want to better understand neighbors right here at home.
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