The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist: The Future of a Reformation Legacy

The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist: The Future of a Reformation Legacy

The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist: The Future of a Reformation Legacy

The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist: The Future of a Reformation Legacy

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Overview

What is the significance of the Protestant Reformation for Christian ethical thinking and action? Can core Protestant commitments and claims still provide for compelling and viable accounts of Christian living. This collection of essays by leading international scholars explores the relevance of the Protestant Reformation and its legacy for contemporary Christian ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780567665959
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 01/14/2016
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Brian Brock is Reader in Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

Michael Mawson is Lecturer in Theological Ethics, University of Aberdeen, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Contributors


Introduction
Michael Mawson

1. Citizens of Heaven
Stanley Hauerwas, Duke Divinity School, USA

2. The Plight of Protestant Ethics
Gerald McKenny, University of Notre Dame, USA

3. The Messianic Contours of Evangelical Ethics
Hans G. Ulrich, Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany

4. Living in the Wake of God's Acts: Luther's Mary as Key to Barth's Command
Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, UK

5. How to Do or Not Do Protestant Ethics
Stanley Hauerwas, Duke Divinity School, USA

6. Anabaptist Ethics After Yoder: Accepting the Limits on the Freedom of a Christian Ethicist
Paul Martens, Baylor University, USA

7. The Politics of Jesus and the Ethics of Christ: Why the Differences between Yoder and Bonhoeffer Matter
Michael Mawson, University of Aberdeen, UK

8. 'We, as to our own Particulars…' Conscience and Vocation in Quaker Tradition
Rachel Muers, University of Leeds, UK

9. Sleepers Wake! Eudaimonism, Obligation, and the Call to Responsibility
Jennifer A. Herdt, Yale Divinity School, USA

10. On What we Lost when (or if) we Lost the Saints.
Michael Banner, University of Cambridge, UK


Bibliography
Index

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