Christian ethics : problems and prospects / edited by Lisa Sowle Cahill and James F. Childress.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cleveland, Ohio : Pilgrim Press, 1996.Description: xi, 399 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0829811362 (acid-free paper)
  • 9780829811360 (acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 241 21 C119c
LOC classification:
  • BJ1251 .C498 1996
Other classification:
  • 11.62
Contents:
The Bible and Christian moral practices / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Scripture and ethics: practices, performances, and prescriptions / Allen Verhey -- The reformed tradition in theological ethics / Douglas F. Ottati -- Tradition, historicity, and truth in theological ethics / David Hollenbach -- Understanding moral meanings: on philosophical hermeneutics and theological ethics / William Schweiker -- The particularist turn in theological and philosophical ethics / Gene Outka -- Knowledge of self and knowledge of God: a reconstructed empiricist interpretation / William C. Spohn and Thomas A. Byrnes -- The role of experience in moral discernment / Margaret A. Farley -- What can medical science contribute to theological ethics? Musings on mortality / Richard B. Gunderman -- Descriptive and normative uses of evolutionary theory / Stephen J. Pope -- Agency: going forward by looking back / Stanley Hauerwas -- Moral norms in practical ethical reflection / James F. Childress -- The ethicist as improvisationist / Albert R. Jonsen -- Human genetic intervention and the theologians: cosmic theology and casuistic analysis / LeRoy Walters -- Creating a global discourse in a pluralist world: strategies from environmental ethics / Cristina L.H. Traina -- Marriage and family / Stephen G. Post -- Love, power, and justice in sexual ethics / James B. Nelson -- Recent theological discussions of democracy / Joseph L. Allen -- Thinking theologically about the economic / Jon P. Gunnemann -- Just-war criteria and theocentric ethics / Richard B. Miller -- Comparative ethics and intercultural human-rights dialogues: a programmatic inquiry / Sumner B. Twiss -- A brief, unscholarly afterword / James M. Gustafson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Bible and Christian moral practices / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Scripture and ethics: practices, performances, and prescriptions / Allen Verhey -- The reformed tradition in theological ethics / Douglas F. Ottati -- Tradition, historicity, and truth in theological ethics / David Hollenbach -- Understanding moral meanings: on philosophical hermeneutics and theological ethics / William Schweiker -- The particularist turn in theological and philosophical ethics / Gene Outka -- Knowledge of self and knowledge of God: a reconstructed empiricist interpretation / William C. Spohn and Thomas A. Byrnes -- The role of experience in moral discernment / Margaret A. Farley -- What can medical science contribute to theological ethics? Musings on mortality / Richard B. Gunderman -- Descriptive and normative uses of evolutionary theory / Stephen J. Pope -- Agency: going forward by looking back / Stanley Hauerwas -- Moral norms in practical ethical reflection / James F. Childress -- The ethicist as improvisationist / Albert R. Jonsen -- Human genetic intervention and the theologians: cosmic theology and casuistic analysis / LeRoy Walters -- Creating a global discourse in a pluralist world: strategies from environmental ethics / Cristina L.H. Traina -- Marriage and family / Stephen G. Post -- Love, power, and justice in sexual ethics / James B. Nelson -- Recent theological discussions of democracy / Joseph L. Allen -- Thinking theologically about the economic / Jon P. Gunnemann -- Just-war criteria and theocentric ethics / Richard B. Miller -- Comparative ethics and intercultural human-rights dialogues: a programmatic inquiry / Sumner B. Twiss -- A brief, unscholarly afterword / James M. Gustafson.

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