An Introduction to Christian Ethics

Preface

Introduction: What Is Christian Ethics?

PART I: RENARRATING CHRISTIAN THOUGHT AND PRACTICE

1 Greek Ethics

2 Biblical Ethics

3 Early Church Ethics

4 Medieval Church Ethics I

5 Medieval Church Ethics II

6 Renaissance and Reformation Ethics

7 Enlightenment Ethics

8 Post-Enlightenment Ethics

Excursus Part I

PART II: A DISCIPLINED INTERLUDE

9 Philosophy and Ethics

10 Sociology and Ethics

11 Psychology and Ethics

12 Theology and Ethics

Excursus Part II

PART III: SELECTED TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHRISTIAN ETHICISTS

SECTION A: Early Responses to the Nineteenth Century

13 Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923)

14 Karl Barth (1886-1968)

15 Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)

16 Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988)

17 Dorothee Sölle (1929-2003)

Excursus Part III-A

SECTION B: Formative, Contemporary, Christian Ethicists

18 Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918)

19 James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942)

20 Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)

21 Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962)

22 Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

23 James Moody Gustafson (1925-)

Excursus Part III-B

PART IV: CRITICAL RESPONSES TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHRISTIAN ETHICS

SECTION A: Christian Social Philosophers

24 George Parkin Grant (1918-1988)

25 Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (1929-)

Excursus Part IV-A

SECTION B: Liberation Theologians

26 Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928-)

27 James Hal Cone (1938-)

28 George E. "Tink" Tinker

Excursus Part IV-B

SECTION C: Feminist Theologians

29 Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936-)

30 Sharon D. Welch

31 Mercy Amba Oduyoye (1933-)

Excursus Part IV-C

SECTION D: Peace Theologians

32 John Howard Yoder (1927-1997)

33 James William McClendon Jr. (1924-2000)

34 Stanley Hauerwas (1940-)

Excursus Part IV-D

Conclusion: On Putting Christian Ethics in Its Place

Index