Christian ethics : problems and prospects /
edited by Lisa Sowle Cahill and James F. Childress.
- Cleveland, OH : Pilgrim Press, 1996.
- xi, 399 p. ; pbk ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1 : Shaping theological ethics.
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. Part 2 : The moral life.
Agency : going forward by looking back / Stanley Hauerwas -- Moral norms in practical ethical reflection / James F. Chlidress -- 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 pluralistic world : strategies from environmental ethics / Christina 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 theics and intercultural human-rights dialogues : a programmatic inquiry / Sumner B. Twiss -- A brief, unscholarly afterword / James M. Gustafson.
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Christian ethics. Religious ethics. Social ethics.