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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Recent Philosophical Debates on the Hermeneutics of Past Events and Their Relevance for Biblical Research -- 2 Reconstructing the Position of Paul in Early Christianity -- 3 Tracing the Origins of the Doctrine of Christ -- 4 Assessing the Pauline Strand: Exegetical, Methodological and Theological Disputes and Conclusions -- 5 The Patristic Era as Setting the Course for Relating Religion to Reason -- 6 The Origins of Modernity in the Late Middle Ages -- 7 "Faith" and "Knowledge" after the Copernican Turn in Kant's Critiques of Reason -- 8 Post-Kantian Theories of Language – Pacemakers for the Paradigm Change from Subject Philosophy to Linguistic Interaction -- 9 Reappraising the Counterparts: Secular Reason as the Default Position, Religion as "Other"? -- Bibliography -- Person Index -- Subject Index

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The enquiry whether human dignity as the translation of the biblical designation of the human person as imago Dei should continue to be the framework used to ground human rights and specify their realisation, is developed in five parts. The first identifies two understandings of dignity in the public realm, one inherent-transcendental, the other empirically verifiable. The second section compares the use of "dignity" in three traditions of Catholic Theological Ethics: virtue, natural law, and autonomy. In view of doubts whether theological anthropology should still be the primary location for expounding the meaning of imago Dei, the third section discusses attempts to absorb anthropology into ecclesiology. The modern history of reception of this biblical term by J.G. Herder is outlined in section four, before drawing conclusions from the previous enquiries for the question which language theological ethics should use in public discourse, imago Dei or dignity.

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Welcoming the turn toward including normative conceptions of the human into the remit of economics, this paper compares philosophical frameworks that guide principles such as dignity and justice as one source of theological ethics. Recent political crises show the importance of analyzing the public sphere with which Christian ethics in its various approaches interacts. The place given to religions in Rawls's and Habermas's concepts of "public reason" is compared with Ricoeur's understanding of religions as cofounding traditions. They can contribute to a necessary exchange of memories, also of conflict and conquest, inspired by the undelivered hopes of their own founding memories, precluding triumphalism and fostering "intellectual solidarity" (Hollenbach).

This edited collection is intended as a primer for core concepts and principles in research ethics and as an in-depth exploration of the contextualization of these principles in practice across key disciplines. The material is nested so that readers can engage with it at different levels and depths. It is unique in that it combines an analysis of complex ethical debates about the nature of research and its governance with the best of case-based and discipline-specific approaches. It deals with the following topics in depth: in the natural sciences, it explores the scientific integrity of the researcher and the research process, human cloning as a test case for the limits to research, and the emerging ethical issues in nanotechnology; in the health sciences, it takes up the question of consent, assent and proxies, research with vulnerable groups and the ethics of clinical trials; in the social sciences, it explores the issues that arise in qualitative research, interviews and ethnography; and in the humanities, it examines contested archaeologies and research in divided societies. Overview of Research Ethics Principles Full text papers from experienced researchers across many disciplines Dialogue with ethicists.