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Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics

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ISBN-10: 1405150513

ISBN-13: 9781405150514

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stanley Hauerwas, Samuel Wells, Nicholas Adams, Scott Bader-Saye, Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt

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The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics presents an innovative exposition of Christian ethics, seen through the lens of Christian worship. Editors Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells challenge conventional approaches to the subject, contending that it is Christian worship that shapes the moral life of Christians. In this way, they restore a sense of the integral connection between Christian ethics and theology. The structure of the volume reflects this fresh approach to the discipline, following the practices of the Eucharist in a liturgical sequence from the "Gathering " through to the "Dismissal ". The Companion is ecumenical in spirit and embraces contributions from leading…    
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Book details

List price: $63.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 1.58" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Stanley Hauerwas (PhD, Yale University) is chair in theological ethics at the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. He previously taught at Duke University. He is the author of numerous books, including "Cross-Shattered Christ", "A Cross-Shattered Church", "War and the American Difference", and "Matthew" in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.

List of Contributors
Preface
Studying Ethics through Worship
Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer
The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It
Why Christian Ethics Was Invented
How the Church Managed Before There Was Ethics
Meeting God and One Another
Gathering: Worship, Imagination, and Formation
Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation
Naming the Risen Lord: Embodied Discipleship and Masculinity
Being Reconciled: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship
Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts
Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries
Re-encountering the Story
Reading the Scriptures: Rehearsing Identity, Practicing Character
Listening: Authority and Obedience
Proclaiming: Naming and Describing
Deliberating: Justice and Liberation
Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation
Confessing the Faith: Reasoning in Tradition
Being Embodied
Praying: Poverty
Interceding: Giving Grief to Management
Being Baptized: Bodies and Abortion
Becoming One Body: Health Care and Cloning
Becoming One Flesh: Marriage, Remarriage, and Sex
Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust
Re-enacting the Story
Offering: Treasuring the Creation
Participating: Working toward Worship
Remembering: Offering our Gifts
Invoking: Globalization and Power
Breaking Bread: Peace and War
Receiving Communion: Euthanasia, Suicide, and Letting Die
Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, and Genetically Modified Foods
Eating Together: Friendship and Homosexuality
Being Silent: Time in the Spirit
Being Thankful: Parenting the Mentally Disabled
Washing Feet: Preparation for Service
Being Commissioned
Being Blessed: Wealth, Property, and Theft
Bearing Fruit: Conception, Children, and the Family
Being Sent: Witness
Afterword
Index