Featuring updates, revisions, and new essays from various scholars within the Christian tradition, The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, Second Edition reveals how Christian worship is the force that shapes the moral life of Christians.
* Features new essays on class, race, disability, gender, peace, and the virtues
* Includes a number of revised essays and a range of new authors
* The innovative and influential approach organizes ethical themes around the shape of Christian worship
* The original edition is the most successful to-date in the Companions to Religion series
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THE EDITORS
STANLEY HAUERWAS is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. His numerous books include The Peaceable Kingdom (2003) and Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir (2010).
SAMUEL WELLS is Dean of Duke University Chapel and Research Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke Divinity School. His books include Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics (2004), God's Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics (2006), Power and Passion: Six Characters in Search of Resurrection (2007), Speaking the Truth (2008), and, with Ben Quash, Introducing Christian Ethics (2010).
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THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CHRISTIAN ETHICS SECOND EDITION
EDITED BY Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells
The second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics 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.
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.
The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, 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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Notes on Contributors xi
Preface xiv
Part I Studying Ethics Through Worship 1
1 Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer 3
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells
2 The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It 13
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells
3 Why Christian Ethics Was Invented 28
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells
4 How the Church Managed Before There Was Ethics 39
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells
Part II Meeting God and One Another 53
5 Gathering: Worship, Imagination, and Formation 55
- Philip Kenneson
6 Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation 70
Emmanuel Katongole
7 Naming the Risen Lord: Embodied Discipleship and Masculinity 84
Amy Laura Hall
8 Being Reconciled: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship 97
John Berkman
9 Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts 112
Kevin J. Vanhoozer
10 Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries 124
Michael L. Budde
11 Praise: The Prophetic Public Presence of the Mentally Disabled 139
Brian Brock
Part III Re-Encountering the Story 153
12 Reading the Scriptures: Rehearsing Identity, Practicing Character 155
Jim Fodor
13 Listening: Authority and Obedience 170
Scott Bader-Saye
14 Proclaiming: Naming and Describing 184
Charles Pinches
15 Deliberating: Justice and Liberation 197
Daniel M. Bell
16 Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation 211
William T. Cavanaugh
17 Confessing the Faith: Reasoning in Tradition 224
Nicholas Adams
Part IV Being Embodied 237
18 Interceding: Poverty and Prayer 239
Kelly S. Johnson
19 Interceding: Giving Grief to Management 251
Michael Hanby
20 Interceding: Standing, Kneeling, and Gender 264
Lauren F. Winner
21 Being Baptized: Race 277
Willie Jennings
22 Being Baptized: Bodies and Abortion 290
Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt
23 Becoming One Body: Health Care and Cloning 303
M. Therese Lysaught
24 Becoming One Flesh: Marriage, Remarriage, and Sex 316
David Matzko McCarthy
25 Sharing Peace: Class, Hierarchy, and Christian Social Order 329
Luke Bretherton
26 Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust 344
Paul J. Wadell
Part V Re-Enacting the Story 357
27 Offering: Treasuring the Creation 359
Ben Quash
28 Participating: Working Toward Worship 374
R. R. Reno
29 Remembering: Offering Our Gifts 387
D. Stephen Long and Tripp York
30 Invoking: Globalization and Power 401
Timothy Jarvis Gorringe
31 Breaking Bread: Peace and War 415
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells
32 Receiving Communion: Euthanasia, Suicide, and Letting Die 427
Kathryn Greene-McCreight
33 Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, and Genetically Modifi ed Foods 440
Robert Song
34 Eating Together: Friendship and Homosexuality 453
Joel James Shuman
35 Being Silent: Time in the Spirit 466
Michael S. Northcott
36 Footwashing: Preparation for Christian Life 479
Mark Thiessen Nation
Part VI Being Commissioned 491
37 Being Blessed: Wealth, Property, and Theft 493
Stephen Fowl
38 Bearing Fruit: Conception, Children, and the Family 506