From Christ to the world : introductory readings in Christian ethics / edited by Wayne G. Boulton, Thomas D. Kennedy, and Allen Verhey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Sources of Christian ethics
Biblical ethics / Allen Verhey
Ways of using Scripture / James M. Gustafson
Scripture and the love of God / St. Augustine
Social ideas in the New Testament / Walter Rauschenbusch
Biblical imperatives / Richard J. Mouw
The moral authority of Scripture / Stanley Hauerwas
Feminist consciousness and the interpretation of Scripture / Margaret A. Farley
Biblical revelation and social existence / James Cone
Tradition in ethics / Jeffrey Stout
The transmission of divine revelation / Vatican II
Community experience as a source of Christian ethics / James Tunstead Burtchaell
What it means to stand in a living tradition / Douglas F. Ottati
Feminist interpretation : a method of correlation / Rosemary Radford Ruether
The authority of tradition / John Howard Yoder
Excerpts from the Nicomachean Ethics / Aristotle
Excerpts from Summa contra Gentiles and Summa theological / St. Thomas Aquinas
Conscience and truth / Pope John Paul II
Moral justification / Richard J. Mouw
A historical example : the challenge of the "fools for Christ" / Christos Yannaras
On keeping theological ethics theological / Stanley Hauerwas
Excerpt from Humanae vitae / Pope Paul VI
Scientific humanism and religion / Edward O. Wilson
The abolition of man / C.S. Lewis
The relationship of empirical science to moral thought / James M. Gustafson
A different voice in moral decisions / Carol Gilligan
Using empirical information / Lisa Sowle Cahill
II. Features of Christian ethics
Treatise on Christian liberty / Martin Luther
The meaning of responsibility / H. Richard Niebuhr
Three approaches / Joseph Fletcher
The problem of Protestant ethics today / Paul Ramsey
Values, victims, and visions / James Gaffney
From decision to story / James W. McClendon, Jr
A framework for feminist ethics / Carol S. Robb
Excerpts from The city of God and The morals of the Catholic Church / St. Augustine
The cardinal virtues / Kenneth E. Kirk
The relevance of an impossible ethical ideal / Reinhold Niebuhr
Ethical principles of moral action / Paul J. Tillich
For justice in shalom / Nicolas Wolterstorff
Implications for a theory of justice / Karen Lebacqz
Justice and Christian charity / Gordon Graham
Friendship and fidelity / Gilbert Meilaender
To bear wrongs patiently / Sidney Cornelia Callahan
On the insufficience of human strength / Tito Colliander
Excerpts from the Schleitheim confession of faith / The Swiss Brethren
The riddle of Romans 13 / Wayne G. Boulton
The civilization of the pluralist society / John Courtney Murray
Spirituality and the corporation / Max L. Stackhouse
The meaning of the cross for social ethics in the world today / Larry Rasmussen
III. Issues in Christian ethics
An ethic of marriage and family / Vigen Guroian
Misogyny and homophobia : the unexplored connections / Beverly W. Harrison
Excerpts from Personal commitments / Margaret A. Farley
Respect for covenant / Lewis Smedes
The liberal approach to sexual ethics / James Nelson
Excerpt from Limited engagements / Philip W. Turner III
Religion and the secularization of bioethics / Daniel Callahan
Can theology have a role in "public" bioethical discourse / Lisa Sowle Cahill
Salvation and health : why medicine needs the church / Stanley Hauerwas
Surrogate motherhood / Janet Dickey McDowell
Praying with dirty hands / Allen Verhey
The distinction between killing and allowing to die / Gilbert Meilaender
The murmurings : slaves in the wilderness / Michael Walzer
The grace of doing nothing / H. Richard Niebuhr
Must we do nothing? / Reinhold Niebuhr
The only way into the Kingdom of God / H. Richard Niebuhr
Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr
Can war be just? / Thomas Kennedy
The nonviolence of Dorothy Day / Kathleen de Sutter Jordan
The rich man's salvation / Clement of Alexandria
On usury / John Calvin
The case of Christianity against capitalism / Walter Rauschenbusch
The law of love in politics and economics / Reinhold Niebuhr
Private property and the universal destination of material goods / Pope John Paul II
Key themes of liberation theology / Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff
A postcommunist manifesto / Max L. Stackhouse and Dennis P. McCann
Responses to "A postcommunist manifesto" : ethics, economics, and the corporate life / Robert Benne and Preston N. Williams
"The canticle of brother sun" and "How St. Francis tamed the very fierce wolf of Gubbio" / St. Francis
Acting responsibly with respect to animals and plants / Karl Barth
God and the world / Sallie McFague
On slaying the dragon : the American nature myth / William F. May
God and country / Wendell Berry

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