Preface
The Story of Christian Ethics
The Story of God
The People of God
Tertullian, Against Marcion
Karl Barth, Israel and the Church
John Howard Yoder, If Abraham is our Father
Oliver O'Donovan, Yhwh Reigns
God in Person
John Calvin, The Purpose for which Christ was Sent by the Father
Stanley Hauerwas, Jesus: The Presence of the Peaceable Kingdom
Following Jesus
John Calvin, The Sum of the Christian Life: The Denial of Ourselves
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Costly Grace
The Story of the Church
Minority Status
The Epistle to Diognetus
Perpetua, The Martyrdom of Perpetua
Clement of Alexandria, Who is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?
Christendom
Eusebius of Caesarea, A Speech on the Dedication of the Holy Sepulchre Church
The Rule of St. Benedict
John Howard Yoder, The Constantinian Sources of Western Social Ethics
The Church in Western Modernity
Ernst Troeltsch, The Gospel Ethic
H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ the Transformer of Culture
The Story of Ethics
Philosophical Ethics
Plato, The Republic
Aristotle, The Nature of Virtue
Religious Ethics
Sumner B. Twiss, Comparison in Religious Ethics
Mohandas K. Gandhi, Experiments With Truth
The Dalai Lama, The Supreme Emotion
Professional Ethics
Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics
Thomas F. McMahon, A Brief History of American Business Ethics
The Story of Christian Ethics
Foundations
Augustine, The City of God
Thomas Aquinas, Of War
Revisions
Martin Luther, Temporal Authority
Menno Simons, A Kind Admonition on Church Discipline
Legacies of Division
John Wesley, The Use of Money
Reinhold Niebuhr, The Confl ict Between Individual and Social Morality
William Temple, Christian Social Principles
The Questions Christian Ethics Asks
Universal Ethics
Right Actions
Karl Barth, The Command of God
Thomas Aquinas, The Natural Law
Thomas Hobbes, Natural Law and Natural Right
Immanuel Kant, The Categorical Imperative
Right Outcomes
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
Richard A. McCormick, Ambiguity in Moral Choice
Joseph Fletcher, Situation Ethics
Right Relationships
Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor)
Bartolom茅 de las Casas, History of the Indies
General Assembly of the United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
Subversive Ethics
Class
Gustavo Guti茅rrez The Church in the Process of Liberation
Race
James Cone, Black Theology of Liberation
Gender
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Sexism and God-Talk
Delores S. Williams, Womanist Theology
Ada Mar铆a Isasi-D铆az Mujerista Theology
Age and Disability
Jean Vanier, In the Presence of the Poor
Rowan Williams, The Gifts Reserved for Age
Ecclesial Ethics
Persuasive Narratives
Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
John Milbank, Theology as a Social Science
A New Aristotelianism
Thomas Aquinas, Of the Virtues
Samuel Wells, Forming Habits
Stanley Hauerwas, The Narrative Character of Christian Ethics
The Christological Turn
John Howard Yoder, The Possibility of a Messianic Ethic
The Questions Asked of Christian Ethics
Good Order
The State
Pope Pius XI, Quadragesimo Anno (On Reconstruction of the Social Order); Pope John XXIII, Pacem in Terris (On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice, Charity, and Liberty)
The Kairos Document
The Barmen Declaration
Justice and Punishment
Oliver O'Donovan, The Death Penalty in Evangelium Vitae
Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Civil Disobedience
Timothy Gorringe, Atonement, Retribution, and Forgiveness
War and Violence
Paul Ramsey, Justice in War
Camilo Torres, Love and Revolution
Dorothy Day, Our Country Passes from Undeclared War to Declared War; We Continue Our Christian Pacifi st Stand
Good Life
Economics, Wealth, and Poverty
Adam Smith, The Invisible Hand
Medell铆n Conference
Martin Luther King, Jr., I See The Promised Land
Work, Business, and Management
Max L. Stackhouse, Spirituality and the Corporation
Miguel A. de la Torre, Corporate Accountability
Alasdair MacIntyre, "Fact," Explanation, and Expertise
Media
Pope John Paul II, Aetatis Novae (On Social Communications on the Twentieth Anniversary of Communio et Progressio)
Mary E. Hess, Growing Faithful Children in Media Cultures
Michael Budde, Christian Formation in Global Culture Industries
Good Relationships
Friendship
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Mary Daly, The Fire of Female Friendship
Aelred of Rievaulx, Spiritual Friendship
The Family, Marriage, and Sex
J.I. Packer, Personal Standards
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Reimagining Families
Vigen Guroian, An Orthodox Ethic of Marriage and Family
Homosexuality
Stephen J. Pope, Homosexuality and Natural Law
John Boswell, Homosexuality in the Scriptures
Eugene F. Rogers, Sanctifi cation, Homosexuality, and God's Triune Life
Good Beginnings and Endings
Contraception, Assisted Conception, and Genetic Engineering
Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Birth)
Margaret A. Farley, Feminist Theology and Bioethics
Oliver O'Donovan, Begotten or Made?
Abortion
James M. Gustafson, Abortion: An Ethical Case Study
Beverly Wildung Harrison with Shirley Cloyes, Procreative Choice
Stanley Hauerwas, Abortion and the Church
Euthanasia and Suicide
Richard A. McCormick, Proportionalist Reasoning
Jennifer A. Parks, Gender and Euthanasia
Gilbert Meilaender, Suicide and Euthanasia
Good Earth
Animals
Andrew Linzey, Reverence, Responsibility, and Rights
Carol J. Adams, Institutional Violence, Feminist Ethics, and Vegetarianism
Stephen H. Webb, The Lord's Supper as a Vegetarian Meal
Crops
Derek Burke, Genetic Engineering of Food
Wendell Berry, The Pleasures of Eating
Michael S. Northcott, Faithful Feasting
Ecology
J眉rgen Moltmann, An Ecological Doctrine of Creation
Sallie McFague, The Body of God
Laura Ruth Yordy, The Church's Eco-Discipleship
Source Credits
Names Index
Subject Index