The point is not to give people the fantasy that there is a right Jewish, Christian or Muslim answer to any particular position. People may think that within the traditions or outside the traditions, but the point is to try to give them some sort of purchase on what you could call the basic grammar of moral deliberation in these three faiths. -Prof. Charles Mathewes

 

The point is not to give people the fantasy that there is a right Jewish, Christian or Muslim answer to any particular position. People may think that within the traditions or outside the traditions, but the point is to try to give them some sort of purchase on what you could call the basic grammar of moral deliberation in these three faiths.


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The point is not to give people the fantasy that there is a right Jewish, Christian or Muslim answer to any particular position. People may think that within the traditions or outside the traditions, but the point is to try to give them some sort of purchase on what you could call the basic grammar of moral deliberation in these three faiths.

Prof. Charles Mathewes

I teach about war, murder, capital punishment, sex and marriage, homosexuality, the environment -- who isn't interested about this stuff?

Prof. Charles Mathewes