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Deontology (Mouw)

References to law, principles, rules. Efforts to extend principles across contexts; concerns about impartiality and claims to universality; focus on intention.

Metaphor: Citizen adhering to laws


Primary Question: What should I do?


Category of Answer: The "right" thing - that which conforms to law

Teleology (Rauschenbusch)

References to ideals, goals and common good. Concerns about outcome of an act, the effect it will have, consequences

Metaphor: Fashioner, Maker, Creating the Future


Primary Question: What is my goal?


Answer: The good - that which advances the goal

Responsibility (Niebuhr, Trimiew)

Attentiveness to variety of factors; openness to different responses to different circumstances; highly contextual and highly relational

Metaphor: Answerer responding to actions upon him/her


Question: What is going on?


Answer: The fitting - that which represents accountability

Care (Gilligan)

Highly personal interpretations/descriptions of the event; concern about the impact of various actions on a relationship; language of need, care, love; concerns about individual people not laws

Metaphor: Caregiver responding to a need


Question: What does this person need?


Answer: The caring thing - that which meets the need

Virtue (Gushee and Stassen)

References to practices, habits, dispositions with mention of particular virtues. More subtle references to character.

Metaphor: Gardener


Question: What sort of person am I becoming?


Answer: The virtuous - that which cultivates a certain disposition; that which orients me toward the good.

Narrative (Hauerwas)

Attention to character formulation and to the influence of community/tradition. Trying to respond appropriately to changing circumstances and still be somehow consistent with core commitments.

Metaphor: Protagonist or story teller


Question: Who am I(are we) becoming?


Answer: The harmonious

Mouw

Deontology

Rauschenbusch

Teleology

Neihbr, Trimiew

Responsibility

Gilligan

Care

Gustee and Stassen

Virtue

Hauerwas

Narrative