The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-922722-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 558 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 951 g

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates.

The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics offers the most authoritative and compelling guide to the discipline. Thirty of the world's most distinguished specialists provide new essays in order to offer a survey of and analysis of the subject. Ethics is first placed firmly within the Christian theological tradition, from which thought and action can never be neatly separated. Four sections then explore the sources of Christian moral knowledge (scripture, divine commands, church tradition, reason and natural law, experience); the structure of the Christian life (vocation, virtue, rules, responsibility, death); the spirit of the Christian life (faith, hope, love); and the spheres of the Christian life (government, family, economy, culture, church). The final section of the Handbook contains essays discussing and evaluating certain scholarly works that have in the past influentially offered (different) visions of how best to structure the field of theological ethics. Unlike any other book now available, the Handbook's unrivalled breadth and depth make it the definitive reference work for all students and academics who want to explore more fully essential topics in Christian ethics.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of theology and moral philosophy, especially those with an interest in Christian ethics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meilaender, Gilbert

Werpehowski, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- I. Dogmatics and Ethics

- 1: Lisa Sowle Cahill: Creation and Ethics

- 2: Russell Reno: Redemption and Ethics

- 3: Kathryn Tanner: Eschatology and Ethics

- 4: Bernd Wannenwetsch: Ecclesiology and Ethics

- 5: Gilbert Meilaender: Divine Grace and Ethics

- II. Sources of Moral Knowledge

- 6: William Spohn: Scripture

- 7: Lois Malcolm: Divine Commands

- 8: Philip Turner: Tradition of the Church

- 9: Stephen Pope: Reason and Natural Law

- 10: Douglas Ottati: Experience

- III. The Structure of the Christian Life

- 11: Max Stackhouse: Vocation

- 12: Jean Porter: Virtue

- 13: Richard Miller: Rules

- 14: Gerald McKenny: Responsibility

- 15: Darlene Weaver: Death

- IV. The Spirit of the Christian Life

- 16: Gene Outka: Faith

- 17: John Webster: Hope

- 18: Amy Laura Hall: Love

- V. Spheres of the Christian Life

- 19: Robert Benne: Christians and Government

- 20: Sondra Wheeler: Christians and Family

- 21: Harlan Beckley: Christians and Economics

- 22: Vigen Guroian: Christians and Culture

- 23: Paul Griffiths: Christians and the Church

- VI. The Structure of Theological Ethics: Books that Give Shape to the Field

- 24: William Schweiker: Ernst Troelsch, Social Teachings of the Christian Churches

- 25: William Werpehowski: Anders Nygren, Agape and Eros

- 26: David H. Smith: Kenneth Kirk, Vision of God

- 27: Diane Yeager: H. R. Niebuhr, Christ and Culture

- 28: Robin Lovin: R. Niebuhr, Nature and Destiny of Man

- 29: James Keenan: John Mahoney, The Making of Moral Theology

- 30: Stanley Hauerwas: Papal Social Encyclicals

Über Autor(innen)

Gilbert Meilaender is Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Professor in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University.

William Werpehowski is Professor of Christian Ethics at Villanova University.