Virtues & Practices in the Christian Tradition

by Murphy, Nancey; Kallenberg, Brad J.; Nation, Mark Thiessen

• ISBN13: 9781563382154
• ISBN10: 1563382156
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Trinity Pr Intl

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(6)
Nancey Murphy
Part I APPROPRIATION OF MACINTYREAN CONCEPTS FOR CHRISTIAN ETHICS	7	(78)
CHAPTER 1 The Master Argument of MacIntyre's After Virtue	7	(23)
Brad J. Kallenberg
CHAPTER 2 Using MacIntyre's Method in Christian Ethics	30	(15)
Nancey Murphy
CHAPTER 3 Positioning MacIntyre within Christian Ethics	45	(40)
Brad J. Kallenberg
Part II VIRTUES AND PRACTICES OF THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION	85	(100)
CHAPTER 4 The Practice of Community Formation	85	(26)
James Wm. McClendon, Jr.
CHAPTER 5 Scripture, Exegesis, and Discernment in Christian Ethics	111	(21)
Stephen E. Fowl
L. Gregory Jones
CHAPTER 6 Practicing the Rule of Christ	132	(29)
John Howard Yoder
CHAPTER 7 Reconceiving Practice in Theological Inquiry and Education	161	(24)
Craig Dykstra
Part III PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES	185	(182)
CHAPTER 8 From Family Values to Family Virtues	185	(17)
Rodney Clapp
CHAPTER 9 Character and Conversation in the Homosexuality Debate	202	(19)
Awaiting the Redemption of Our Bodies	206	(9)
Richard B. Hays
Debate and Discernment, Scripture and the Spirit	215	(6)
Luke Timothy Johnson
CHAPTER 10 Abortion Theologically Understood	221	(18)
Stanley Hauerwas
CHAPTER 11 Pacifism as a Vocation	239	(23)
Grady Scott Davis
CHAPTER 12 After Racism	262	(27)
Tammy Williams
CHAPTER 13 Feminism, Political Philosophy, and the Narrative Ethics of Jean Bethke Elshtain	289	(17)
Mark Thiessen Nation
CHAPTER 14 Business Ethics: Kindred Spirit or Idolatry?	306	(18)
Michael Goldberg
CHAPTER 15 Images of the Healer	324	(19)
William F. May
CHAPTER 16 Christian Economy	343	(18)
D. Stephen Long
RETROSPECT On Cultivating Moral Taste	361	(6)
Brad J. Kallenberg
A Selected Bibliography of the Works of Alasdair MacIntyre	367	(3)
Contributors	370	(3)
Scripture Index	373	(3)
General Index	376