
Christian Ethics : An Introductory Reader
by Wells, Samuel-
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Preface | |
The Story of Christian Ethics | |
The Story of God | |
The People of God | |
Tertullian, Against Marcion | |
Israel and the Church | |
If Abraham is our Father | |
Yhwh Reigns | |
God in Person | |
The Purpose for which Christ was Sent by the Father | |
Jesus: The Presence of the Peaceable Kingdom | |
Following Jesus | |
The Sum of the Christian Life: The Denial of Ourselves | |
Costly Grace | |
The Story of the Church | |
Minority Status | |
The Epistle to Diognetus | |
Perpetua, The Martyrdom of Perpetua | |
Clement of Alexandria, Who is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved? | |
Christendom | |
Eusebius of Caesarea, A Speech on the Dedication of the Holy Sepulchre Church | |
The Rule of St. Benedict | |
The Constantinian Sources of Western Social Ethics | |
The Church in Western Modernity | |
The Gospel Ethic | |
Christ the Transformer of Culture | |
The Story of Ethics | |
Philosophical Ethics | |
Plato, The Republic | |
Aristotle, The Nature of Virtue | |
Religious Ethics | |
Comparison in Religious Ethics | |
Experiments With Truth | |
The Supreme Emotion | |
Professional Ethics | |
Principles of Biomedical Ethics | |
A Brief History of American Business Ethics | |
The Story of Christian Ethics | |
Foundations | |
Augustine, The City of God | |
Of War | |
Revisions | |
Temporal Authority | |
A Kind Admonition on Church Discipline | |
Legacies of Division | |
The Use of Money | |
The Confl ict Between Individual and Social Morality | |
Christian Social Principles | |
The Questions Christian Ethics Asks | |
Universal Ethics | |
Right Actions | |
The Command of God | |
The Natural Law | |
Natural Law and Natural Right | |
The Categorical Imperative | |
Right Outcomes | |
Utilitarianism | |
Ambiguity in Moral Choice | |
Situation Ethics | |
Right Relationships | |
Rerum Novarum (On Capital, Labor) | |
History of the Indies | |
General Assembly of the United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
A Theory of Justice | |
Subversive Ethics | |
Class | |
The Church in the Process of Liberation | |
Race | |
Black Theology of Liberation | |
Gender | |
Sexism and God-Talk | |
Womanist Theology | |
Mujerista Theology | |
Age and Disability | |
In the Presence of the Poor | |
The Gifts Reserved for Age | |
Ecclesial Ethics | |
Persuasive Narratives | |
After Virtue | |
Theology as a Social Science | |
A New Aristotelianism | |
Of the Virtues | |
Forming Habits | |
The Narrative Character of Christian Ethics | |
The Christological Turn | |
The Possibility of a Messianic Ethic | |
The Questions Asked of Christian Ethics | |
Good Order | |
The State | |
Quadragesimo Anno (On Reconstruction of the Social Order) | |
Pacem in Terris (On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice, Charity, and Liberty) | |
The Kairos Document | |
The Barmen Declaration | |
Justice and Punishment | |
The Death Penalty in Evangelium Vitae | |
Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Civil Disobedience | |
Atonement, Retribution, and Forgiveness | |
War and Violence | |
Justice in War | |
Love and Revolution | |
Our Country Passes from Undeclared War to Declared War; We Continue Our Christian Pacifi st Stand | |
Good Life | |
Economics, Wealth, and Poverty | |
The Invisible Hand | |
Medellín Conference | |
I See The Promised Land | |
Work, Business, and Management | |
Spirituality and the Corporation | |
Corporate Accountability | |
"Fact," Explanation, and Expertise | |
Media | |
Aetatis Novae (On Social Communications on the Twentieth Anniversary of Communio et Progressio) | |
Growing Faithful Children in Media Cultures | |
Christian Formation in Global Culture Industries | |
Good Relationships | |
Friendship | |
The Four Loves | |
The Fire of Female Friendship | |
Aelred of Rievaulx, Spiritual Friendship | |
The Family, Marriage, and Sex | |
Personal Standards | |
Reimagining Families | |
An Orthodox Ethic of Marriage and Family | |
Homosexuality | |
Homosexuality and Natural Law | |
Homosexuality in the Scriptures | |
Sanctifi cation, Homosexuality, and God's Triune Life | |
Good Beginnings and Endings | |
Contraception, Assisted Conception, and Genetic Engineering | |
Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Birth) | |
Feminist Theology and Bioethics | |
Begotten or Made? | |
Abortion | |
Abortion: An Ethical Case Study | |
Procreative Choice | |
Abortion and the Church | |
Euthanasia and Suicide | |
Proportionalist Reasoning | |
Gender and Euthanasia | |
Suicide and Euthanasia | |
Good Earth | |
Animals | |
Reverence, Responsibility, and Rights | |
Institutional Violence, Feminist Ethics, and Vegetarianism | |
The Lord's Supper as a Vegetarian Meal | |
Crops | |
Genetic Engineering of Food | |
The Pleasures of Eating | |
Faithful Feasting | |
Ecology | |
Jürgen Moltmann, An Ecological Doctrine of Creation | |
Sallie McFague, The Body of God | |
Laura Ruth Yordy, The Church's Eco-Discipleship | |
Source Credits | |
Names Index | |
Subject Index | |
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