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| Preface | |
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| Eschatology and Ethics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Can I Hope For? What Can I Do? Free Action | |
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| What Must I Fear? What Should I Do? Necessary Action | |
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| Praying and Watching | |
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| Waiting and Hastening | |
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| Apocalyptic Eschatology | |
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| The Lutheran Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms | |
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| The Apocalyptic Catechon | |
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| Armageddon | |
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| Christological Eschatology | |
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| Calvinist Kingdom-of-God Theology | |
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| Karl Barth's Christological Eschatology | |
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| Political Parables of the Kingdom of God | |
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| Theocratic Democracy | |
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| Separatist Eschatology | |
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| An Interim Reflection: Did Jesus Teach a Special Ethics? Is There Such a Thing as a Christian Ethics? | |
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| Who Were the Anabaptists? | |
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| What Did the Anabaptists Believe? | |
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| How Did the Anabaptists Live? | |
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| The Post-Liberal Separation between "Church" and "World": Stanley Hauerwas | |
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| Transformative Eschatology | |
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| First Orientations | |
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| Eschatological Christology | |
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| Transformative Ethics | |
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| An Ethics of Life | |
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| A Culture of Life | |
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| Terror of Death | |
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| The Gospel of Life | |
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| Love for Life | |
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| Medical Ethics | |
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| Some Benchmarks for a Judgment | |
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| The Birth of Life | |
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| The Strength to Live in Health and Sickness | |
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| The Strength to Live in Dying and in Death | |
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| The Resurrection of the Body? | |
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| Earth Ethics | |
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| In the Space of the Earth, What Is the Earth? | |
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| The Gaia Theory | |
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| Biblical Perspectives | |
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| "Brothers, Remain True to the Earth" | |
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| The Time of the Earth | |
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| The Doctrine of Creation and the Theory of Evolution | |
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| Creation in the Beginning | |
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| The Continuing Creation Process | |
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| Evolution and Emergence | |
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| The Struggle for Existence or Cooperation in Existence? | |
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| The Theory of Evolution and Belief in Progress | |
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| The New Earth on Which Righteousness Dwells | |
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| Ecology | |
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| Ecological Sciences | |
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| The Ecological Crisis | |
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| Ecological Theology and Spirituality | |
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| Ecological Ethics | |
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| Human Rights and the Rights of Nature | |
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| Earth Ethics | |
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| Benchmarks for Forming a Judgment | |
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| An Alternative Lifestyle | |
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| A Culture of Solidarity | |
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| Ethics of Just Peace | |
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| Criteria for Forming a Judgment | |
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| Righteousness, Justice, and Equality | |
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| The Deficits of Politics in the Face of Global Problems | |
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| Are Ethics Always Too Late on the Scene? | |
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| Is Trust the Substance of Democratic Politics? | |
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| Divine and Human Righteousness and Justice | |
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| "Tit for Tat" Religion | |
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| The Link between Acts and Consequences, and Karma | |
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| The Scales of Justice: Justitia Distribution | |
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| The Sun of Righteousness: Justitia Justificans | |
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| Creating Justice in the World of Victims and Perpetrators | |
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| Righteousness and Right | |
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| Dragon Slaying and Peacemaking in Christianity | |
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| Power and Voilence | |
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| The Angel of Peace and the Dragon Slayer | |
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| Sacrum Imperium-The Sacred Rule | |
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| What in the Long Run Was the Effect of the Christianization of Politics? | |
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| Just Power: The Monopoly of Force and the Right of Resistance | |
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| The Doctrine of "Just War" | |
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| Under the Conditions of Nuclear Weapons? | |
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| "Creating Peace without Weapons" | |
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| Creative Love of Enemies | |
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| Christian Dual Strategy for a Just Peace | |
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| Control Is Good-Trust Is Better: Liberty and Security in the "Free World" | |
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| Lenin: Trust Is Good-Control Is Better | |
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| Trust Creates Freedom | |
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| Truth Creates Trust | |
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| Ways from Control to Trust | |
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| The Righteousness of God Human and Civil Rights | |
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| The Discovery of Human Rights | |
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| The Integration of Individual and Social Human Rights | |
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| The Integration of Economic Human Rights and the Ecological Rights of Nature | |
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| Human Rights: International, Transnational, or Subsidiary? | |
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| Human Rights and the Righteousness of God | |
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| Joy in God: Aesthetic Counterpoints | |
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| Sabbath-The Feast of Creation | |
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| The Jubilation of Christ's Resurrection | |
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| "And Peace in the Midst of Strife" | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |