Table of Contents
A Thematic Organization of Sources xii
Preface xiii
Part 1 Biblical Influences
1 Hebrew Bible 2
Exodus 20:1-17; 21:1-11, 22-25, 33-36; 22:21-27
Leviticus 25:8-9
Prophetic Accents: Amos 5:6-24, Isaiah 11:1-9
2 New Testament 7
Matthew 5
Luke 4:14-21 and Matthew 11:2-6
Luke 10:25-37
Luke 12:15-31
Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2:13-3:8
1 John 4:7-21 and 1 Corinthians 13:1-7
For Further Reading
Part 2 The Early Church
3 Apostolic Fathers 18
The Epistle of Barnabas XVII-XXI
The First Apology of Justin Martyr 14-17, 27-29
Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book V, Chapter 24
4 Tertullian 26
Apology, Chapters 39-45
Spectacles, Chapters 8-10
5 The Alexandrian School 34
The Instructor, Book I, Chapter XIII
The Rich Man's Salvation
Origen: Against Celsus, Book VIII, 73-75
6 Chrysostom 40
Concerning the Statutes, Homily XIT, 9,12-15
Homilies on Matthew, XIX, 6.1
7 Augustine 44
Enchiridion, Chapters 9-11
Enchiridion, Chapters 9-11; 23-26
City of God XIV, 28; XIX, 17
Of the Morals of the Catholic Church, Chapters XV, XXIV, 434, XXVI, and XXVII
A Good Marriage, Chapters 3, 6, 7, 10
Peace and Just War, City of God, Book XV, 4; XIX, 7
For Further Reading
Part 3 The Medieval Church
8 Monasticism 58
The Rule of Saint Benedict
The Rule of Saint Francis
St. Francis's Canticle of the Sun
9 The Mystics 66
Bernard of Clairvaux, On Love of God
Meister Eckhart, The Talks of Instruction, Nos. 2, 4, 5, 7, 18
Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue or A Treatise of Divine Providence
10 Thomas Aquinas 76
Summa Theologica, II/1, Question 90, Article 2
Summa Theologica, II/1, Question 91, Articles 1-4
Summa Theologica, II/1, Question 94, Article 2
Summa Theologica, II/2, Question 58, Articles 1, 11, 12
Summa Theologica, II/2, Question 60, Articles 5-6
Summa Theologica, II/2, Question 64, Articles 2-3 and Question 40, Article 1
Summa Theologica, II/2, Question 66, Articles 1-2
11 The Medieval Papacy 99
Pope Gregory VII excommunication decree 1076
Unam Sanctam 1302
For Further Reading
Part 4 The Reformation
12 Martin Luther 104
Treatise on Christian Liberty, 1520
Temporal Authority: To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed, 1522
Against the Robbing arid Murdering Horde of Peasants, ca. 1525
13 John Calvin 119
Institutes, Book II, Chapter II, No. 1
Institutes, Book II, Chapter II, No. 13
Institutes, Book II, Chapter VIII, Nos. 39, 41, 45-46
Institutes, Book III, Chapter XXI, No. 7
Institutes, Book IV, Chapter XX, Nos. 1-3, 24, 31-32
14 The Anabaptists 129
The Schleitheim Confession of Faith
Thomas Müntzer, Sermon to the Princes
Menno Simons, Reply to False Accusations
15 The Jesuit Legacy and Francisco De Suárez 140
Suárez, A Treatise on Laws and God the Lawgiver, Book III, Chapter II Suárez, Disputation XIII: On Charity, Chapter 1
For Further Reading
Part 5 Post-Reformation England and America
16 The Puritans 148
An Agreement of the People
Gerrard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform or True Magistracy Restored (1652)
17 Roger Williams 153
The Bloody Tenent of Persecution (July 15, 1644)
18 The Quakers 159
Rules of Discipline [Society of Friends]
Rules of Discipline [Opposition to War]
Rules of Discipline [Abolition of Slavery]
For Further Reading
Part 6 Eighteenth-Century Voices
19 Rationalism 166
John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity
Joseph Butler, Upon the Love of Our Neighbor
20 Pietism 172
Philip Jacob Spener, Pia Desideria
August Hermann Francke, Scriptural Rules
21 John Wesley 181
The Use of Money
Thoughts upon Slavery
Thoughts on the Present Scarcity of Provisions
For Further Reading
Part 7 Nineteenth-Century Voices
22 Friedrich Schleiermacher 196
On Christian Social Ethics
23 Horace Bushnell 199
Politics tinder the Law of God
24 Frederick Denison Maurice 203
The Kingdom of Christ
25 A Bolitionists 207
Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?"
Frederick Douglas, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"
26 Albrecht Ritschl 213
Liberal Theology
For Further Reading
Part 8 Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Catholic Social Teaching
27 On Behalf of Workers: Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression 218
Leo III, Rerum Novarum, May 15, 1891
Pope Pius XI, Quadragesima anno, 1931
28 Pope John XXIII and Vatican II 224
John XXIII, Pacem in terris (1963)
Vatican Council II, Gaudium et spes (1965)
29 United States Catholic Bishops 233
The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response (1983)
Economic Justice for All (1986)
For Further Reading
Part 9 Early- to Mid-Twentieth-Century Voices
30 The Social Gospel 242
Washington Gladden, Social Redemption
Walter Rauschenbusch, A Theology for the Social Gospel
31 Reinhold Niebuhr 252
An Interpretation of Christian Ethics
Justice and Love
Christian Faith and Natural Law
32 Paul Tillich 266
"The Kingdom of God in History," Systematic Theology, Volume Three
33 Karl Barth 272
"The Christian Community and the Civil Community," Community, State, and Church
34 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 285
"The Concrete Commandment and the Divine Mandates," Ethics Letters and Papers from Prison
For Further Reading
Part 10 Twentieth-Century Feminist and Womanist Ethics
35 Feminist Voices 298
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Sexism and God-Talk
Lisa Sowle Cahill, "Feminism and Christian Ethics," Freeing Theology: The Essentials of Theology in Feminist Perspective
Beverly Wildung Harrison, Making the Connections: Essays in Feminist
Social Ethics
36 Womanist Voices 324
Katie Geneva Cannon, Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community
Jacquelyn Grant, White Women's Jesus and Black Woman's Christ: Feminist Christology and Womanist Response
Delores S. Williams, "Womanist Theology: Black Women's Voice"
For Further Reading
Part 11 Contemporary Issues: The Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
37 Justice and Liberation 346
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
James H. Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation
Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation Jon Sobrino, The Principle of Mercy: Taking the Crucified People from the Cross
38 Human Sexuality 377
Charles Curran, "Catholic Social and Sexual Teaching: A Methodological Comparison"
Christine Gudorf, "Life without Anchors: Sex, Exchange, and Human Rights in a Postmodern World"
The Lambeth Conference 1998, Resolution 1.10 Human Sexuality
World Council of Churches' contributions to the discussions on human sexuality: From Harare to Porto Alegre, Background Document, Geneva 2006
Margaret Farley, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics
39 Environmental Ethics 410
Joseph Sittler, "Called to Unity" (1962)
Larry L. Rasmussen, "Is Eco-Justice Central to Christian Faith?" Earth Community, Earth Ethics
Sallie McFague, The Body of God: An Ecological Theology
James Nash, Loving Nature: Ecological Integrity and Christian Responsibility
40 Biomedical Ethics 442
Paul Ramsey, Fabricated Man
Joseph Fletcher, Morals and Medicine
Richard A. McCormick, How Brave a New World: Dilemmas in Bioethics
James Gustafson, The Contributions of Theology to Medical Ethics
Paul T. Jersild, "Theological and Moral Reflections on Stem Cell Research"
41 Pacifism, Just War, and Terrorism 475
David A. Hoekema, "A Practical Christian Pacifism"
Address of Pope John Paul II to the Diplomatic Corps, January 13, 2003
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Just War against Terror
42 The Church in the World and the Ethics of Virtue 491
John Howard Yoder, The Priestly Kingdom: Social Ethics as Gospel
Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic
Jean Porter, The Recovery of Virtue: The Relevance of Aquinas for Christian Ethics
43 Trinitarian Theology and Social Ethics 509
Jürgen Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom
Catherine Mowry LaCugna, God for Us: The Trinity and Christian Life
For Further Reading
Bibliography of Original Sources 523
Index 532
