Introducing Christian Ethics

by Wells, Samuel; Quash, Ben

• ISBN13: 9781405152778
• ISBN10: 140515277X
• Format: Hardcover
• 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

The Story of Christian Ethics

The Story of God

The People of God

God in Person

Following Jesus

The Story of the Church

Minority Status

Christendom

The Church in Western Modernity

The Story of Ethics

Philosophical Ethics

Religious Ethics

Professional Ethics

The Story of Christian Ethics

Foundations

Revisions

Legacies of Division

The Questions Christian Ethics Asks

Universal Ethics

Right Actions

Right Outcomes

Right Relationships

Subversive Ethics

Class

Race

Gender

Age and Disability

Ecclesial Ethics

Persuasive Narratives

A New Aristotelianism

The Christological Turn

The Questions Asked of Christian Ethics

Good Order

The State

Justice and Punishment

War

Good Life

Economics, Wealth, and Poverty

Work, Business, and Management

Media

Good Relationships

Friendship

The Family, Marriage, and Sex

Homosexuality

Good Beginnings and Endings

Contraception, Assisted Conception, and Genetic Engineering

Abortion

Euthanasia and Suicide

Good Earth

Animals

Crops

Ecology

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