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The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics [PDF ebook] 

Notes on Contributors xi
Preface xiv
Part I Studying Ethics Through Worship 1
1 Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer 3
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2 The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It 13
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3 Why Christian Ethics Was Invented 28
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4 How the Church Managed Before There Was Ethics 39
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Part II Meeting God and One Another 53
5 Gathering: Worship, Imagination, and Formation 55
* Philip Kenneson
6 Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation 70
Emmanuel Katongole
7 Naming the Risen Lord: Embodied Discipleship and Masculinity 84
Amy Laura Hall
8 Being Reconciled: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship 97
John Berkman
9 Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts 112
Kevin J. Vanhoozer
10 Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries 124
Michael L. Budde
11 Praise: The Prophetic Public Presence of the Mentally Disabled 139
Brian Brock
Part III Re-Encountering the Story 153
12 Reading the Scriptures: Rehearsing Identity, Practicing Character 155
Jim Fodor
13 Listening: Authority and Obedience 170
Scott Bader-Saye
14 Proclaiming: Naming and Describing 184
Charles Pinches
15 Deliberating: Justice and Liberation 197
Daniel M. Bell
16 Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation 211
William T. Cavanaugh
17 Confessing the Faith: Reasoning in Tradition 224
Nicholas Adams
Part IV Being Embodied 237
18 Interceding: Poverty and Prayer 239
Kelly S. Johnson
19 Interceding: Giving Grief to Management 251
Michael Hanby
20 Interceding: Standing, Kneeling, and Gender 264
Lauren F. Winner
21 Being Baptized: Race 277
Willie Jennings
22 Being Baptized: Bodies and Abortion 290
Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt
23 Becoming One Body: Health Care and Cloning 303
M. Therese Lysaught
24 Becoming One Flesh: Marriage, Remarriage, and Sex 316
David Matzko Mc Carthy
25 Sharing Peace: Class, Hierarchy, and Christian Social Order 329
Luke Bretherton
26 Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust 344
Paul J. Wadell
Part V Re-Enacting the Story 357
27 Offering: Treasuring the Creation 359
Ben Quash
28 Participating: Working Toward Worship 374
R. R. Reno
29 Remembering: Offering Our Gifts 387
D. Stephen Long and Tripp York
30 Invoking: Globalization and Power 401
Timothy Jarvis Gorringe
31 Breaking Bread: Peace and War 415
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32 Receiving Communion: Euthanasia, Suicide, and Letting Die 427
Kathryn Greene-Mc Creight
33 Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, and Genetically Modifi ed Foods 440
Robert Song
34 Eating Together: Friendship and Homosexuality 453
Joel James Shuman
35 Being Silent: Time in the Spirit 466
Michael S. Northcott
36 Footwashing: Preparation for Christian Life 479
Mark Thiessen Nation
Part VI Being Commissioned 491
37 Being Blessed: Wealth, Property, and Theft 493
Stephen Fowl
38 Bearing Fruit: Conception, Children, and the Family 506
Joseph L. Mangina
39 Being Sent: Witness 519
Michael G. Cartwright
Afterword 533
40 The Virtue of the Liturgy 535
Jennifer Herdt
41 Afterword 547
Rowan Williams
Index 551

THE EDITORS
STANLEY HAUERWAS is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. His numerous books include The Peaceable Kingdom (2003) and Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir (2010).
SAMUEL WELLS is Dean of Duke University Chapel and Research Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke Divinity School. His books include Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics (2004), God’s Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics (2006), Power and Passion: Six Characters in Search of Resurrection (2007), Speaking the Truth (2008), and, with Ben Quash, Introducing Christian Ethics (2010).