Introducing Christian Ethics

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.

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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