Description:

by Krijn Pansters and David B. Couturier

This interdisciplinary volume seeks to tease out a new, more relational methodology for morality and virtue in our time.  It does so by addressing the question how we can make the Franciscan ("lesser") intellectual and spiritual tradition, in particular its articulation of moral goodness and concern for the common good, relevant and fruitful for a present-day ethical practice.

Themes addressed include:

• moral action and the economy of the common good
• institutional integrity and organizational virtuousness
• toleration and respect
• fraternity and friendship
• exegesis and ethical formation
• saints as ethical role models
• suffering and deprivation as sources of strength
• ethical exemplarism
• environmental engagement
• the rights of and care for creatures
• the experience of loss and letting go
• morality as responsibility
• virtue as a moral and spiritual avenue for personal growth