The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics

by Meilaender, Gilbert; Werpehowski, William

• ISBN13: 9780199262113
• ISBN10: 019926211X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

"The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics is an authoritative guide to the practical and theoretical issues that concern and shape the discipline. Thirty of the world's most distinguished specialists provide new essays in order to offer a survey of and analysis of the subject. As this is a Handbook of theological ethics, its essays deal not only with the standard topics of ethics - the goals we ought to seek, the actions we ought to do, the sort of people we should seek to be - but more particularly with the shape moral life takes for those who seek to live as Christians."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Gilbert Meilaender is Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Professor in Christian Ethics, Valparaiso University. William Werpehowski is Professor of Christian Ethics, Villanova University.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	viii
Introduction	1	(4)
Part I. Dogmatics and Ethics	5	(86)
1. Creation and Ethics	7	(18)
LISA SOWLE CAHILL
2. Redemption and Ethics	25	(16)
R.R. RENO
3. Eschatology and Ethics	41	(16)
KATHRYN TANNER
4. Ecclesiology and Ethics	57	(17)
BERND WANNENWETSCH
5. Divine Grace and Ethics	74	(17)
GILBERT MEILAENDER
Part II. Sources of Moral Knowledge	91	(96)
6. Scripture	93	(19)
WILLIAM C. SPOHN
7. Divine Commands	112	(18)
LOIS MALCOLM
8. Tradition in the Church	130	(18)
PHILIP TURNER
9. Reason and Natural Law	148	(20)
STEPHEN POPE
10. Experience	168	(19)
DOUGLAS F. OTTATI
Part III. The Structure of the Christian Life	187	(84)
11. Vocation	189	(16)
MAX STACKHOUSE
12. Virtue	205	(15)
JEAN PORTER
13. Rules	220	(17)
RICHARD B. MILLER
14. Responsibility	237	(17)
GERALD P. MCKENNY
15. Death	254	(17)
DARLENE FOZARD WEAVER
Part IV. The Spirit of the Christian Life	271	(52)
16. Faith	273	(18)
GENE OUTKA
17. Hope	291	(16)
JOHN WEBSTER
18. Love: A Kinship of Affliction and Redemption	307	(16)
AMY LAURA HALL
Part V. Spheres of the Christian Life	323	(90)
19. Christians and Government	325	(18)
ROBERT BENNE
20. Christians and Family	343	(17)
SONDRA WHEELER
21. Christians and Economics	360	(21)
HARLAN BECKLEY
22. Christians and Culture	381	(17)
VIGEN GUROIAN
23. Christians and the Church	398	(15)
PAUL J. GRIFFITHS
Part VI. The Structure of Theological Ethics: Books that Give Shape to the Field	413	(125)
24. Ernst Troeltsch's The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches	415	(18)
WILLIAM SCHWEIKER
25. Anders Nygren's Agape and Eros	433	(16)
WILLIAM WERPEHOWSKI
26. Kenneth Kirk's The Vision of God	449	(17)
DAVID H. SMITH
27. H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture	466	(21)
D.M. YEAGER
28. Reinhold Niebuhr's The Nature and Destiny of Man	487	(16)
ROBIN W. LOVIN
29. John Mahoney's The Making of Moral Theology	503	(17)
JAMES F. KEENAN, SJ
30. Catholic Social Teaching	520	(18)
STANLEY HAUERWAS AND JANA BENNETT
Index of Names	538	(4)
Index of Scriptural References	542