Introducing Christian Ethics

by Wells, Samuel; Quash, Ben

• ISBN13: 9781405152761
• ISBN10: 1405152761
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-22
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This comprehensive textbook redefines the field of Christian Ethics, highlighting distinctions between ethical approaches, and offering thoughtful insights into the complex moral challenges facing people today. Redefines the field of Christian ethics along three strands: universal (ethics for anyone), subversive (ethics for the excluded), and ecclesial (ethics for the church) Offers students substantially more than many texts, most of which focus solely on issues, approaches, or key figures in Christian ethics; this books covers all three, setting them in a framework that explores scripture, philosophy and church history Provides a successful balance between description, critique, and analysis Shows how ecclesial ethics is respectful of, and indeed, often profoundly indebted to, other approaches to ethics Structured so that it can be used alongside a companion volume, Christian Ethics: An Introductory Reader, which further illustrates and amplifies the diversity of material and arguments explored here

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
The Story of Christian Ethics	p. 1
The Story of God	p. 3
The People of God	p. 6
God in Person	p. 13
Following Jesus	p. 20
The Story of the Church	p. 31
Minority Status	p. 32
Christendom	p. 40
The Church in Western Modernity	p. 50
The Story of Ethics	p. 59
Philosophical Ethics	p. 59
Religious Ethics	p. 65
Professional Ethics	p. 72
The Story of Christian Ethics	p. 84
Foundations	p. 86
Revisions	p. 93
Legacies of Division	p. 96
The Questions Christian Ethics Asks	p. 113
Universal Ethics	p. 115
Right Actions	p. 115
Right Outcomes	p. 124
Right Relationships	p. 132
Subversive Ethics	p. 146
Class	p. 147
Race	p. 154
Gender	p. 161
Age and Disability	p. 172
Ecclesial Ethics	p. 180
Persuasive Narratives	p. 181
A New Aristotelianism	p. 191
The Christological Turn	p. 199
The Questions Asked of Christian Ethics	p. 207
Good Order	p. 209
The State	p. 209
Justice and Punishment	p. 222
War	p. 230
Good Life	p. 243
Economics, Wealth, and Poverty	p. 243
Work, Business, and Management	p. 251
Media	p. 261
Good Relationships	p. 275
Friendship	p. 275
The Family, Marriage, and Sex	p. 284
Homosexuality	p. 296
Good Beginnings and Endings	p. 311
Contraception, Assisted Conception, and Genetic Engineering	p. 311
Abortion	p. 321
Euthanasia and Suicide	p. 327
Good Earth	p. 336
Animals	p. 338
Crops	p. 343
Ecology	p. 348
Timeline	p. 360
Glossary of Names	p. 362
Glossary of Terms	p. 373
Name Index	p. 381
Subject Index	p. 384
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