Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics – On the Person as Classic in Comparative Theological Contexts

Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics offers a comparative discussion of the challenges of living a moral religious life. This is illustrated with a study of two key thinkers, Bonaventure and Buddhaghosa, who influenced the development of moral thinking in Christianity and Buddhism respectively. Provides an important and original contribution to the comparative study and practice of religious ethicsMoves away from a comparison of theories by discussing the shared human problem of moral weaknessOffers an fresh approach with a comparison of the understanding of the problem of moral weakness between the two key thinkers, Bonaventure and BuddhaghosaWritten by a highly respected academic in the dynamic and fast-growing field of comparative religious ethics