Christian Ethics – An Introductory Reader

Preface.
<p>Part One The Story of Christian Ethics.</p>
<p>1 The Story of God.</p>
<p>The People of God.</p>
<p>Tertullian, Against Marcion.</p>
<p>Karl Barth, Israel and the Church.</p>
<p>John Howard Yoder, If Abraham is our Father.</p>
<p>Oliver O Donovan, Yhwh Reigns.</p>
<p>God in Person.</p>
<p>John Calvin, The Purpose for which Christ was Sent by the Father.</p>
<p>Stanley Hauerwas, Jesus: The Presence of the Peaceable Kingdom.</p>
<p>Following Jesus.</p>
<p>John Calvin, The Sum of the Christian Life: The Denial of Ourselves.</p>
<p>Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Costly Grace.</p>
<p>2 The Story of the Church.</p>
<p>Minority Status.</p>
<p>The Epistle to Diognetus.</p>
<p>Perpetua, The Martyrdom of Perpetua.</p>
<p>Clement of Alexandria, Who is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?</p>
<p>Christendom.</p>
<p>Eusebius of Caesarea, A Speech on the Dedication of the Holy Sepulchre Church.</p>
<p>The Rule of St. Benedict.</p>
<p>John Howard Yoder, The Constantinian Sources of Western Social Ethics.</p>
<p>The Church in Western Modernity.</p>
<p>Ernst Troeltsch, The Gospel Ethic.</p>
<p>H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ the Transformer of Culture.</p>
<p>3 The Story of Ethics.</p>
<p>Philosophical Ethics.</p>
<p>Plato, The Republic.</p>
<p>Aristotle, The Nature of Virtue.</p>
<p>Religious Ethics.</p>
<p>Sumner B. Twiss, Comparison in Religious Ethics.</p>
<p>Mohandas K. Gandhi, Experiments With Truth.</p>
<p>The Dalai Lama, The Supreme Emotion.</p>
<p>Professional Ethics.</p>
<p>Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics.</p>
<p>Thomas F. McMahon, A Brief History of American Business Ethics.</p>
<p>4 The Story of Christian Ethics.</p>
<p>Foundations.</p>
<p>Augustine, The City of God.</p>
<p>Thomas Aquinas, Of War.</p>
<p>Revisions.</p>
<p>Martin Luther, Temporal Authority.</p>
<p>Menno Simons, A Kind Admonition on Church Discipline.</p>
<p>Legacies of Division.</p>
<p>John Wesley, The Use of Money.</p>
<p>Reinhold Niebuhr, The Confl ict Between Individual and Social Morality.</p>
<p>William Temple, Christian Social Principles.</p>
<p>Part Two The Questions Christian Ethics Asks.</p>
<p>5 Universal Ethics.</p>
<p>Right Actions.</p>
<p>Karl Barth, The Command of God.</p>
<p>Thomas Aquinas, The Natural Law.</p>
<p>Thomas Hobbes, Natural Law and Natural Right.</p>
<p>Immanuel Kant, The Categorical Imperative.</p>
<p>Right Outcomes.</p>
<p>John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism.</p>
<p>Richard A. McCormick, Ambiguity in Moral Choice.</p>
<p>Joseph Fletcher, Situation Ethics.</p>
<p>Right Relationships.</p>
<p>Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor).</p>
<p>Bartolom&eacute; de las Casas, History of the Indies.</p>
<p>General Assembly of the United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights.</p>
<p>John Rawls, A Theory of Justice.</p>
<p>6 Subversive Ethics.</p>
<p>Class.</p>
<p>Gustavo Guti&eacute;rrez, The Church in the Process of Liberation.</p>
<p>Race.</p>
<p>James Cone, Black Theology of Liberation.</p>
<p>Gender.</p>
<p>Rosemary Radford Ruether, Sexism and God–Talk.</p>
<p>Delores S. Williams, Womanist Theology.</p>
<p>Ada Mar&iacute;a Isasi–D&iacute;az, Mujerista Theology.</p>
<p>Age and Disability.</p>
<p>Jean Vanier, In the Presence of the Poor.</p>
<p>Rowan Williams, The Gifts Reserved for Age.</p>
<p>7 Ecclesial Ethics.</p>
<p>Persuasive Narratives.</p>
<p>Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue.</p>
<p>John Milbank, Theology as a Social Science.</p>
<p>A New Aristotelianism.</p>
<p>Thomas Aquinas, Of the Virtues.</p>
<p>Samuel Wells, Forming Habits.</p>
<p>Stanley Hauerwas, The Narrative Character of Christian Ethics.</p>
<p>The Christological Turn.</p>
<p>John Howard Yoder, The Possibility of a Messianic Ethic.</p>
<p>Part Three The Questions Asked of Christian Ethics.</p>
<p>8 Good Order.</p>
<p>The State.</p>
<p>Pope Pius XI, Quadragesimo Anno (On Reconstruction of the Social Order); Pope John XXIII, Pacem in Terris (On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice, Charity, and Liberty).</p>
<p>The Kairos Document.</p>
<p>The Barmen Declaration.</p>
<p>Justice and Punishment.</p>
<p>Oliver O Donovan, The Death Penalty in Evangelium Vitae.</p>
<p>Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Civil Disobedience.</p>
<p>Timothy Gorringe, Atonement, Retribution, and Forgiveness.</p>
<p>War and Violence.</p>
<p>Paul Ramsey, Justice in War.</p>
<p>Camilo Torres, Love and Revolution.</p>
<p>Dorothy Day, Our Country Passes from Undeclared War to Declared War; We Continue Our Christian Pacifi st Stand.</p>
<p>9 Good Life.</p>
<p>Economics, Wealth, and Poverty.</p>
<p>Adam Smith, The Invisible Hand.</p>
<p>Medell&iacute;n Conference.</p>
<p>Martin Luther King, Jr., I See The Promised Land.</p>
<p>Work, Business, and Management.</p>
<p>Max L. Stackhouse, Spirituality and the Corporation.</p>
<p>Miguel A. de la Torre, Corporate Accountability.</p>
<p>Alasdair MacIntyre, Fact, Explanation, and Expertise.</p>
<p>Media.</p>
<p>Pope John Paul II, Aetatis Novae (On Social Communications on the Twentieth Anniversary of Communio et Progressio).</p>
<p>Mary E. Hess, Growing Faithful Children in Media Cultures.</p>
<p>Michael Budde, Christian Formation in Global Culture Industries.</p>
<p>10 Good Relationships.</p>
<p>Friendship.</p>
<p>C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves.</p>
<p>Mary Daly, The Fire of Female Friendship.</p>
<p>Aelred of Rievaulx, Spiritual Friendship.</p>
<p>The Family, Marriage, and Sex.</p>
<p>J. I. Packer, Personal Standards.</p>
<p>Rosemary Radford Ruether, Reimagining Families.</p>
<p>Vigen Guroian, An Orthodox Ethic of Marriage and Family.</p>
<p>Homosexuality.</p>
<p>Stephen J. Pope, Homosexuality and Natural Law.</p>
<p>John Boswell, Homosexuality in the Scriptures.</p>
<p>Eugene F. Rogers, Sanctifi cation, Homosexuality, and God s Triune Life.</p>
<p>11 Good Beginnings and Endings.</p>
<p>Contraception, Assisted Conception, and Genetic Engineering.</p>
<p>Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Birth).</p>
<p>Margaret A. Farley, Feminist Theology and Bioethics.</p>
<p>Oliver O Donovan, Begotten or Made?</p>
<p>Abortion.</p>
<p>James M. Gustafson, Abortion: An Ethical Case Study.</p>
<p>Beverly Wildung Harrison with Shirley Cloyes, Procreative Choice.</p>
<p>Stanley Hauerwas, Abortion and the Church.</p>
<p>Euthanasia and Suicide.</p>
<p>Richard A. McCormick, Proportionalist Reasoning.</p>
<p>Jennifer A. Parks, Gender and Euthanasia.</p>
<p>Gilbert Meilaender, Suicide and Euthanasia.</p>
<p>12 Good Earth.</p>
<p>Animals.</p>
<p>Andrew Linzey, Reverence, Responsibility, and Rights.</p>
<p>Carol J. Adams, Institutional Violence, Feminist Ethics, and Vegetarianism.</p>
<p>Stephen H. Webb, The Lord s Supper as a Vegetarian Meal.</p>
<p>Crops.</p>
<p>Derek Burke, Genetic Engineering of Food.</p>
<p>Wendell Berry, The Pleasures of Eating.</p>
<p>Michael S. Northcott, Faithful Feasting.</p>
<p>Ecology.</p>
<p>J&uuml;rgen Moltmann, An Ecological Doctrine of Creation.</p>
<p>Sallie McFague, The Body of God.</p>
<p>Laura Ruth Yordy, The Church s Eco–Discipleship.</p>
<p>Source Credits.</p>
<p>Names Index.</p>
<p>Subject Index.</p>