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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: A Primer on Doing Ethics | |
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| What Makes Ethics Christian? | |
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| Foundations | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Biblical Authority | |
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| The Bible in Transit | |
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| A Death to Celebrate? The Just-War Tradition and the Killing of Osama Bin Laden | |
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| How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Brain | |
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| "Wading through Many Sorrows": Toward a Theology of Suffering in Womanist Perspective | |
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| Taking a Stand | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Eclipse of Love for God | |
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| Mujerista Discourse: A Platform for Latinas' Subjugated Knowledge | |
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| "Rights and Wrongs": An Interview with Nicholas Wolterstorff | |
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| The Unholy Trinity of Consumerism | |
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| Forgiveness | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Imitating God: Nickel Mines, Forgiveness, and Yoder | |
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| Blame Versus Forgiveness | |
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| Lessons in Mercy: Justice and Reconciliation in the Aftermath of Atrocities | |
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| Letting Go: The Final Miracle of Forgiveness | |
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| Sexual Ethics | |
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| Sexual Intimacy | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Body's Grace | |
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| Marriage Prep and Double Standards: The Hookup Culture's Damaging Effects | |
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| Good Sex: Its Meaning and Morals | |
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| Love Your Enemy: Sex, Power, and Christian Ethics | |
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| Sexual Slavery on Main Street | |
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| Marriage and Family | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Betrothal Proposal | |
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| Domestic Abuse | |
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| No Good Divorce: The Children's Perspective: An Interview with Elizabeth Marquardt | |
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| What God Has Joined | |
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| Role Play | |
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| Advice and Consent: Monogamy in the Age of Dan Savage | |
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| Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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| Heterosexism | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Awaiting the Redemption of Our Bodies | |
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| Heterosexism and the Interpretation of Romans 1:18-32 | |
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| Bearing Better Witness | |
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| Blessing Same-Sex Marriages | |
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| Racism | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Obama and Race in America: What's Changed? | |
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| Race Matters | |
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| Whiteness: The Structure of Institutional Racism | |
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| Issues of National and Global Priority | |
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| Immigration | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Imagining the Immigrant: Why Legality Must Give Way to Humanity | |
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| Creating a Sacred Space: An Iglesia Evang�lica Response to Global Homelessness | |
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| A Judeo-Christian Approach to "Comprehensive" Immigration Reform | |
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| Caring for the Whole Earth Community | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Poisoning the Well: A Review of Mark Hertsgaard's Hot: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth | |
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| Toward an Ethic of Ecojustice | |
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| The Challenge of Biocentrism | |
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| An Earth-Honoring Faith | |
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| When "Knowledge" Is Simply "All Wet" and "Ignorance Is Bliss"! Christian Environmental Ethics Meets Science in Louisiana's Wetlands | |
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| Economic Justice | |
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| Consumerism | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Pay Attention to the Birds | |
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| Just a Little Bit More: Greed and the Mailing of Our Souls | |
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| Nickel and Dimed: A Review of Bethany Moreton's To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise | |
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| Capitalism and Christian Values | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| When Generosity Is Not Enough | |
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| Fighting Poverty to Build Peace | |
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| Just Deserts: Beyond the Free Market | |
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| When Is Self-interest Moral? A Gap in Catholic Social Teaching | |
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| Seeking Economic Justice in a Globalized World | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Christian Theology and Development | |
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| Shopping for Justice: The Trouble with Good Intentions | |
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| The Dread Cancer of Stinginess | |
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| Still Hungry: A Review of Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid: A Better Way for Africa | |
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| Issues of Life and Death | |
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| Abortion | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theology and Morality of Procreative Choice | |
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| Abortion and the Sexual Agenda | |
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| Fetal Status: Sources and Implications | |
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| What Actually Works? The Right Supports Can Reduce Abortion Rates | |
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| Physician-Assisted Suicide | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Still Dying Badly: A Christian Critique | |
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| Assisted Suicide: Do We Own Our Bodies? | |
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| The Case for Physician-Assisted Suicide? | |
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| Capital Punishment | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Horrific Crime: But Is Execution the Answer? | |
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| Catholicism and Capital Punishment | |
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| Crime and Sacrifice | |
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| Terrorism and War | |
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| An Opening Case | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Did 9/11 Make Us Morally "Better"? | |
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| When the Shooting Stops: Criteria for a Just Peace | |
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| Courageous Nonviolence | |
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| Against the New Utopianism | |
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| Notes | |