Introducing Christian Ethics
ISBN: 9781405152778 | 140515277X
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 2/22/2010
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This comprehensive textbook offers an unparalleled introduction to the stuy of Christian Ethics, mapping and exploring all the major ethical appraches, and offering throughtful insights into the complex moral challenges facing people today.Written by two well-known theologians, the book encompasses Christian ethics in its entirety, but also offers a new way of viewing this subject. Wells and Quash appraoch it from three perspectives: universal (ethics for anyone; subservive (ethics for the excluded); and ecclesial (ethics for the church). In do... MORE
| Preface | |
| The Story of Christian Ethics | |
| The Story of God | |
| The People of God | |
| God in Person | |
| Following Jesus | |
| The Story of the Church | |
| Minority Status | |
| Christendom | |
| The Church in Western Modernity | |
| The Story of Ethics | |
| Philosophical Ethics | |
| Religious Ethics | |
| Professional Ethics | |
| The Story of Christian Ethics | |
| Foundations | |
| Revisions | |
| Legacies of Division | |
| The Questions Christian Ethics Asks | |
| Universal Ethics | |
| Right Actions | |
| Right Outcomes | |
| Right Relationships | |
| Subversive Ethics | |
| Class | |
| Race | |
| Gender | |
| Age and Disability | |
| Ecclesial Ethics | |
| Persuasive Narratives | |
| A New Aristotelianism | |
| The Christological Turn | |
| The Questions Asked of Christian Ethics | |
| Good Order | |
| The State | |
| Justice and Punishment | |
| War | |
| Good Life | |
| Economics, Wealth, and Poverty | |
| Work, Business, and Management | |
| Media | |
| Good Relationships | |
| Friendship | |
| The Family, Marriage, and Sex | |
| Homosexuality | |
| Good Beginnings and Endings | |
| Contraception, Assisted Conception, and Genetic Engineering | |
| Abortion | |
| Euthanasia and Suicide | |
| Good Earth | |
| Animals | |
| Crops | |
| Ecology | |
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Samuel Wells is Dean of the Chapel at Duke University and Research Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. He is editor of the accompanying volume, Christian Ethics: An Introductory Reader (2010) and The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics (with Stanley Hauerwas, 2004), and author of several books including God’s Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006).
Ben Quash is Professor of Christianity and the Arts at King’s College London. He is the author of Theology and the Drama of History (2005), and is former Reviews Editor of the international journal Studies in Christian Ethics.
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