The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics

by Edited by Robin Gill

• ISBN13: 9780521779180
• ISBN10: 0521779189
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-22
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Following the same formula as other Cambridge Companions, this book is written by leading international experts in Christian ethics and is aimed at students on upper-level undergraduate courses, at teachers and at graduate students. It will be useful as well to ministers and other professionals within the church. Its eighteen chapters provide a thorough introduction to Christian ethics which is both authoritative and up-to-date. All contributors have been chosen because they are significant scholars with a proven track record of balanced, comprehensive and comprehensible writing. The Companion examines the scriptural bases of ethics, introduces a variety of approaches to ethics including those informed by considerations such as gender and by other faiths such as Judaism, and then discusses Christian ethics in the context of contemporary issues including war and the arms trade, social justice, ecology, economics, and medicine and genetics. The book offers a superb overview of its subject.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
Part one The grounds of Christian ethics	1	(74)
Making moral decisions	3	(13)
Rowan Williams
The authority of scripture and Christian ethics	16	(13)
Gareth Jones
The Old Testament and Christian ethics	29	(13)
John Rogerson
The gospels and Christian ethics	42	(21)
Timothy P. Jackson
The epistles and Christian ethics	63	(12)
Stephen C. Barton
Part two Approaches to Christian ethics	75	(94)
Natural law and Christian ethics	77	(19)
Stephen J. Pope
Virtue ethics	96	(16)
Jean Porter
Gender and Christian ethics	112	(13)
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Liberation ethics	125	(13)
Tim Gorringe
Christian ethics: a Jewish perspective	138	(16)
Ronald M. Green
Other faiths and Christian ethics	154	(15)
Gavin D'Costa
Part three Issues in Christian ethics	169	(108)
Christianity and war	171	(12)
R. John Elford
The arms trade and Christian ethics	183	(12)
Robin Gill
Social justice and welfare	195	(14)
Duncan B. Forrester
Ecology and Christian ethics	209	(19)
Michael S. Northcott
Business, economics and Christian ethics	228	(15)
Max L. Stackhouse
World family trends	243	(18)
Don Browning
Christian ethics, medicine and genetics	261	(16)
James F. Childress
Select bibliography	277	(9)
Index	286