Moral Issues and Christian Responses

by Jung,Patricia Beattie

• ISBN13: 9780155058958
• ISBN10: 0155058959
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-30
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

The seventh edition of MORAL ISSUES AND CHRISTIAN RESPONSES provides an introduction to contemporary moral issues from decidedly, yet diverse, Christian moral perspectives. This popular anthology explores a variety of pressing topics, including sexuality, prejudice, biomedical ethics, the environment, terrorism, and war.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	vi
Introduction	viii
PART 1 Taking a Stand	1	(50)
Faith and the Church's Response to Social Issues	3	(26)
The Eclipse of Love for God	6	(4)
Edward Collins Vacek
The Market as God	10	(7)
Harvey Cox
The Church and Politics: Hot and Cool Connections	17	(7)
Robert Benne
What Does It Mean to Take Washington, D. C., Seriously?	24	(5)
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Foundations	29	(22)
Biblical Authority	31	(6)
Walter Brueggemann
Bilgrien The Voice of Women in Moral Theology	37	(6)
Sister Marie Vianney
Theology as Soul-Craft	43	(8)
Stanley Hauerwas
PART 2 Sexual Ethics	51	(52)
Sexual Intimacy, Commitment, and Pleasure	53	(34)
the Church and Marriage: Looking for a New Ethic	55	(4)
Jean Ponder Soto
Common Decency: A New Christian Sexual Ethics	59	(6)
Marvin M. Ellison
Love Your Enemy: Sex, Power and Christian Ethics	65	(9)
Karen Lebacqz
Losing Our Promiscuity	74	(8)
Paula Rinehart
When Does Christian Marriage Begin? Before or after the Wedding?	82	(5)
Adrian Thatcher
Family Values	87	(16)
The Church and the Family Crisis: A New Love Ethic	89	(6)
Don S. Browning
Carol Browning
Make Love and Babies	95	(8)
Sam Torode
Bethany Torode
PART 3 Biomedical Ethics	103	(118)
Genetic Engineering and Cloning	105	(28)
Christian Responses to the Human Genome Project	107	(12)
Cynthia S. W. Crysdale
Walter Presuppositions to Moral Judgments on Human Genetic Manipulation	119	(8)
James J.
Stem Cells: A Bioethical Balancing Act	127	(6)
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Assisted Reproduction	133	(17)
Cloning and the Human Family: Theology after Dolly	135	(2)
Allen Verhey
the New Reproductive Technologies: Defying God's Dominion	137	(8)
Maura Anne Ryan
Womb-Love	145	(5)
Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner
Abortion	150	(34)
Theology and Morality of Procreative Choice	153	(8)
Beverly Wildung Harrison
Shirley Cloyes
Abortion and the Sexual Agenda	161	(11)
Sidney Callahan
Shannon Fetal Status: Sources and Implications	172	(5)
Thomas A.
In Search of the Perfect Child: Genetic Testing and Selective Abortion	177	(7)
Ted Peters
Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide	184	(37)
the Case for Physician Assisted Suicide?	186	(7)
James F. Keenan
Issues in Contemporary Christian Ethics: The Choice of Death in a Medical Context	193	(12)
Margaret A. Farley
``the Curtain Only Rises'': Assisted Death and the Practice of Baptism	205	(16)
Martha Ellen Stortz
PART 4 Issues of Prejudice and Oppression	221	(86)
Ethnic Diversity and Prejudice	223	(25)
United States Conference of Religions for Peace Diversity and Community	226	(4)
Black Dignity and the Common Good	230	(9)
Glenn C. Loury
Race Matters	239	(4)
Cornel West
Struggling against Racism with Realism and Hope	243	(5)
Gayraud S. Wilmore
Feminism in Church and Society	248	(26)
When Body Meets Soul	250	(6)
Julie Polter
What Do Women Want? A Conservative Feminist Manifesto	256	(8)
Katherine Kersten
The Sin of Servanthood and the Deliverance of Discipleship	264	(10)
Jacquelyn Grant
Heterosexism	274	(33)
Sources for Body Theology: Homosexuality as a Test Case	276	(9)
James B. Nelson
The Ramsey Colloquium The Homosexual Movement: A Response	285	(7)
Homosexuality, Marriage, and the Church: A Conversation	292	(15)
David Heim
Luke Timothy Johnson
David McCarthy Matzko
Max L. Stackhouse
PART 5 Issues of National Priority	307	(66)
Immigration: Can We Have Open Borders?	309	(19)
The Moral Debate between Humanitarianism and National Interest about U.S. Refugee Policy: A Theological Perspective	312	(6)
Dana Wilbanks
Mi Casa No Es Su Casa	318	(2)
Aurora Camacho de Schmidt
The Coming Immigration Debate: An Englishman Takes an Alarmed Look at a Quintessentially American Issue	320	(8)
Jack Miles
Caring for the Environment	328	(20)
Toward an Ethic of EcoJustice	330	(5)
James B. Martin-Schramm
the Challenge of Biocentrism	335	(7)
Thomas Sieger Derr
Is Eco-Justice Central to Christian Faith?	342	(6)
Larry L. Rasmussen
September 11, 2001: Terrorism and War	348	(25)
A Light in the Darkness	351	(4)
Jim Wallis
Cahill and Michael Baxter, C.S.C. is This Just War?	355	(7)
Lisa Sowle
Terrorism and Religions	362	(11)
H. S. Wilson
PART 6 Economic Issues	373	(72)
Christianity and Consumer Lifestyles	375	(17)
Just a Little Bit More: Greed and the Malling of Our Souls	377	(5)
Robert C. Roberts
John Wesley, Process Theology, and Consumerism	382	(10)
Jay McDaniel
John L. Farthing
Capitalism and Christian Values	392	(25)
When Generosity Is Not Enough	394	(9)
Ellen T. Charry
Catholic Social Teaching: A Communitarian Democratic Capitalism for the New World Order	403	(8)
Oliver F. Williams
To Have and Have Not: Notes on the Progress of the American Class War	411	(6)
Michael Lind
Seeking Justice in a Globalized World	417	(28)
Christian Theology and Development	420	(4)
Gnana Robinson
Social Ethics in a Post Socialist World	424	(7)
Peter L. Berger
Contemporary Globalization: An Ethical and Anthropological Evaluation	431	(14)
Thomas R. Rourke
Notes	445