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The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics


The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics


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von: Stanley Hauerwas, Samuel Wells

160,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 25.02.2011
ISBN/EAN: 9781444396676
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 592

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<p><b>Featuring updates, revisions, and new essays from various scholars within the Christian tradition, <i>The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics,</i> Second Edition reveals how Christian worship is the force that shapes the moral life of Christians.</b></p> <ul> <li>Features new essays on class, race, disability, gender, peace, and the virtues</li> <li>Includes a number of revised essays and a range of new authors</li> <li>The innovative and influential approach organizes ethical themes around the shape of Christian worship</li> <li>The original edition is the most successful to-date in the Companions to Religion series</li> </ul>
<p>Notes on Contributors xi</p> <p>Preface xiv</p> <p><b>Part I Studying Ethics Through Worship 1</b></p> <p>1 Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer 3<br /><i>Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells</i></p> <p>2 The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It 13<br /><i>Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells</i></p> <p>3 Why Christian Ethics Was Invented 28<br /><i>Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells</i></p> <p>4 How the Church Managed Before There Was Ethics 39<br /><i>Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells</i></p> <p><b>Part II Meeting God and One Another 53</b></p> <p>5 Gathering: Worship, Imagination, and Formation 55</p> <ol> <li><i>Philip Kenneson</i></li> </ol> <p>6 Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation 70<br /><i>Emmanuel Katongole</i></p> <p>7 Naming the Risen Lord: Embodied Discipleship and Masculinity 84<br /><i>Amy Laura Hall</i></p> <p>8 Being Reconciled: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship 97<br /><i>John Berkman</i></p> <p>9 Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts 112<br /><i>Kevin J. Vanhoozer</i></p> <p>10 Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries 124<br /><i>Michael L. Budde</i></p> <p>11 Praise: The Prophetic Public Presence of the Mentally Disabled 139<br /><i>Brian Brock</i></p> <p><b>Part III Re-Encountering the Story 153</b></p> <p>12 Reading the Scriptures: Rehearsing Identity, Practicing Character 155<br /><i>Jim Fodor</i></p> <p>13 Listening: Authority and Obedience 170<br /><i>Scott Bader-Saye</i></p> <p>14 Proclaiming: Naming and Describing 184<br /><i>Charles Pinches</i></p> <p>15 Deliberating: Justice and Liberation 197<br /><i>Daniel M. Bell</i></p> <p>16 Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation 211<br /><i>William T. Cavanaugh</i></p> <p>17 Confessing the Faith: Reasoning in Tradition 224<br /><i>Nicholas Adams</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Being Embodied 237</b></p> <p>18 Interceding: Poverty and Prayer 239<br /><i>Kelly S. Johnson</i></p> <p>19 Interceding: Giving Grief to Management 251<br /><i>Michael Hanby</i></p> <p>20 Interceding: Standing, Kneeling, and Gender 264<br /><i>Lauren F. Winner</i></p> <p>21 Being Baptized: Race 277<br /><i>Willie Jennings</i></p> <p>22 Being Baptized: Bodies and Abortion 290<br /><i>Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt</i></p> <p>23 Becoming One Body: Health Care and Cloning 303<br /><i>M. Therese Lysaught</i></p> <p>24 Becoming One Flesh: Marriage, Remarriage, and Sex 316<br /><i>David Matzko McCarthy</i></p> <p>25 Sharing Peace: Class, Hierarchy, and Christian Social Order 329<br /><i>Luke Bretherton</i></p> <p>26 Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust 344<br /><i>Paul J. Wadell</i></p> <p><b>Part V Re-Enacting the Story 357</b></p> <p>27 Offering: Treasuring the Creation 359<br /><i>Ben Quash</i></p> <p>28 Participating: Working Toward Worship 374<br /><i>R. R. Reno</i></p> <p>29 Remembering: Offering Our Gifts 387<br /><i>D. Stephen Long and Tripp York</i></p> <p>30 Invoking: Globalization and Power 401<br /><i>Timothy Jarvis Gorringe</i></p> <p>31 Breaking Bread: Peace and War 415<br /><i>Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells</i></p> <p>32 Receiving Communion: Euthanasia, Suicide, and Letting Die 427<br /><i>Kathryn Greene-McCreight</i></p> <p>33 Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, and Genetically Modifi ed Foods 440<br /><i>Robert Song</i></p> <p>34 Eating Together: Friendship and Homosexuality 453<br /><i>Joel James Shuman</i></p> <p>35 Being Silent: Time in the Spirit 466<br /><i>Michael S. Northcott</i></p> <p>36 Footwashing: Preparation for Christian Life 479<br /><i>Mark Thiessen Nation</i></p> <p><b>Part VI Being Commissioned 491</b></p> <p>37 Being Blessed: Wealth, Property, and Theft 493<br /><i>Stephen Fowl</i></p> <p>38 Bearing Fruit: Conception, Children, and the Family 506<br /><i>Joseph L. Mangina</i></p> <p>39 Being Sent: Witness 519<br /><i>Michael G. Cartwright</i></p> <p>Afterword 533</p> <p>40 The Virtue of the Liturgy 535<br /><i>Jennifer Herdt</i></p> <p>41 Afterword 547<br /><i>Rowan Williams</i></p> <p>Index 551</p>
"Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers." (Choice, 2011)<br /> <br /> <p>"But of course, no Companion can say it all, and for what this one is trying to accomplish, it is a brilliant work. In the past several years, I have gone back to several of the original essays over and over again, and I'm sure I will do the same with some of the new ones." (Jesus Creed, 15 October 2011)</p> <p>"This is a must-have book on the minister's bookshelf." (Regent's Reviews, 1 October 2011)</p> <p>"But of course, no Companion can say it all, and for what this one is trying to accomplish, it is a<br /> brilliant work." (Theatrical Theology, 2011)</p> <p>"This is a very fine book which deserves a place on the shelves of all those who love Walsingham and its parish church." (New Directions, 1 September 2011)</p>
<p><b>THE EDITORS</b> <p><b>STANLEY HAUERWAS</b> is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. His numerous books include <i>The Peaceable Kingdom</i> (2003) and <i>Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir</i> (2010). <p><b>SAMUEL WELLS</b> is Dean of Duke University Chapel and Research Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke Divinity School. His books include <i>Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics</i> (2004), <i>God's Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics</i> (2006)<i>, Power and Passion: Six Characters in Search of Resurrection</i> (2007)<i>, Speaking the Truth</i> (2008)<i>,</i> and<i>, with Ben Quash, Introducing Christian Ethics</i> (2010).
<p>THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO <b>CHRISTIAN ETHICS</b></br> SECOND EDITION <p>EDITED BY <b>Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells</b> <p>The second edition of <i>The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics</i> includes a range of new topics, issues, and authors within the fresh and imaginative approach to Christian ethics which made the first edition such a success. <p>As with the first edition, the Companion offers an innovative exposition of Christian ethics seen through the lens of Christian worship. Editors Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells challenge con- ventional approaches to the subject, demonstrating how Christian worship shapes the moral life of Christians. This revised and up-dated edition features new essays on class, race, feminism and gender, war, disability, and the virtues. There is also a range of new outstanding authors. <p><i>The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics,</i> second edition, is ecumenical in outlook, and encom- passes chapters from leading commentators within the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, Mennonite and Pentecostal traditions. It is designed to be accessible to beginning students and upwards studying Christian ethics.

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