The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist The Future of a Reformation Legacy

by Brock, Brian; Mawson, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780567665959
• ISBN10: 056766595X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-01-14
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

The question of the fate of the decisive impulses of the Protestant Reformation in contemporary theology generally, and in theological ethics in particular, is a question of signal importance at the present time. Recent decades have witnessed significant changes in Protestant approaches to ethics. On the one hand, Protestants have been increasingly influenced by engagements with the social sciences and religious studies, as well with other religious communities and traditions. On the other hand, they have been influenced by a renewed vitality within Catholic moral theology - apparent, for example, in a widespread Protestant turn to virtue ethics and natural law.

This collection of essays provides a series of scholarly reflections by high-profile theologians on the relevance of Protestant Reformation and its legacy for contemporary theological ethics. These illuminating essays shape the future course of the field.

Author Biography

Brian Brock is Reader of Theological Ethics, University of Aberdeen, UK.

Michael Mawson is Lecturer of Theological Ethics, University of Aberdeen, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Contributors

Introduction
Michael Mawson

1. Citizens of Heaven
Stanley Hauerwas, Duke Divinity School, USA

2. The Plight of Protestant Ethics
Gerald McKenny, University of Notre Dame, USA

3. The Messianic Contours of Evangelical Ethics
Hans G. Ulrich, Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany

4. Living in the Wake of God's Acts: Luther's Mary as Key to Barth's Command
Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, UK

5. How to Do or Not Do Protestant Ethics
Stanley Hauerwas, Duke Divinity School, USA

6. Anabaptist Ethics After Yoder: Accepting the Limits on the Freedom of a Christian Ethicist
Paul Martens, Baylor University, USA

7. The Politics of Jesus and the Ethics of Christ: Why the Differences between Yoder and Bonhoeffer Matter
Michael Mawson, University of Aberdeen, UK

8. 'We, as to our own Particulars…' Conscience and Vocation in Quaker Tradition
Rachel Muers, University of Leeds, UK

9. Sleepers Wake! Eudaimonism, Obligation, and the Call to Responsibility
Jennifer A. Herdt, Yale Divinity School, USA

10. On What we Lost when (or if) we Lost the Saints.
Michael Banner, University of Cambridge, UK

Bibliography
Index