The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics

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Featuring updates, revisions, and new essays from various scholars within the Christian tradition, The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, Second Edition reveals how Christian worship is the force that shapes the moral life of Christians. Features new essays on class, race, disability, gender, peace, and the virtuesIncludes a number of revised essays and a range of new authorsThe innovative and influential approach organizes ethical themes around the shape of Christian worshipThe original edition is the most successful to-date in the Companions to Religion seriesContent: Chapter 1 Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer (pages 1–12): Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells Chapter 2 The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It (pages 13–27): Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells Chapter 3 Why Christian Ethics Was Invented (pages 28–38): Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells Chapter 4 How the Church Managed before There Was Ethics (pages 39–51): Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells Chapter 5 Gathering: Worship, Imagination, and Formation (pages 53–69): Philip Kenneson Chapter 6 Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation (pages 70–83): Emmanuel Katongole Chapter 7 Naming the Risen Lord: Embodied Discipleship and Masculinity (pages 84–96): Amy Laura Hall Chapter 8 Being Reconciled: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship (pages 97–111): John Berkman Chapter 9 Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts (pages 112–123): Kevin J. Vanhoozer Chapter 10 Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries (pages 124–138): Michael L. Budde Chapter 11 Praise: The Prophetic Public Presence of the Mentally Disabled (pages 139–151): Brian Brock Chapter 12 Reading the Scriptures: Rehearsing Identity, Practicing Character (pages 153–169): Jim Fodor Chapter 13 Listening: Authority and Obedience (pages 170–183): Scott Bader?Saye Chapter 14 Proclaiming: Naming and Describing (pages 184–196): Charles Pinches Chapter 15 Deliberating: Justice and Liberation (pages 197–210): Daniel M. Bell Chapter 16 Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation (pages 211–223): William T. Cavanaugh Chapter 17 Confessing the Faith: Reasoning in Tradition (pages 224–236): Nicholas Adams Chapter 18 Interceding: Poverty and Prayer (pages 237–250): Kelly S. Johnson Chapter 19 Interceding: Giving Grief to Management (pages 251–263): Michael Hanby Chapter 20 Interceding: Standing, Kneeling, and Gender (pages 264–276): Lauren F. Winner Chapter 21 Being Baptized: Race (pages 277–289): Willie Jennings Chapter 22 Being Baptized: Bodies and Abortion (pages 290–302): Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt Chapter 23 Becoming One Body: Health Care and Cloning (pages 303–315): M. Therese Lysaught Chapter 24 Becoming One Flesh: Marriage, Remarriage, and Sex (pages 316–328): David Matzko McCarthy Chapter 25 Sharing Peace: Class, Hierarchy, and Christian Social Order (pages 329–343): Luke Bretherton Chapter 26 Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust (pages 344–356): Paul J. Wadell Chapter 27 Offering: Treasuring the Creation (pages 357–373): Ben Quash Chapter 28 Participating: Working toward Worship (pages 374–386): R. R. Reno Chapter 29 Remembering: Offering Our Gifts (pages 387–400): D. Stephen Long and Tripp York Chapter 30 Invoking: Globalization and Power (pages 401–414): Timothy Jarvis Gorringe Chapter 31 Breaking Bread: Peace and War (pages 415–426): Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells Chapter 32 Receiving Communion: Euthanasia, Suicide, and Letting Die (pages 427–439): Kathryn Greene?McCreight Chapter 33 Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, and Genetically Modified Foods (pages 440–452): Robert Song Chapter 34 Eating Together: Friendship and Homosexuality (pages 453–465): Joel James Shuman Chapter 35 Being Silent: Time in the Spirit (pages 466–478): Michael S. Northcott Chapter 36 Footwashing: Preparation for Christian Life (pages 479–490): Mark Thiessen Nation Chapter 37 Being Blessed: Wealth, Property, and Theft (pages 491–505): Stephen Fowl Chapter 38 Bearing Fruit: Conception, Children, and the Family (pages 506–518): Joseph L. Mangina Chapter 39 Being Sent: Witness (pages 519–532): Michael G. Cartwright Chapter 40 The Virtue of the Liturgy (pages 533–546): Jennifer A. Herdt Chapter 41 Afterword (pages 547–550): Rowan Williams