Introduces the reader to Christian ethics with practical illustrations and provides tools to use the gospel to approach pressing contemporary moral issues.
Discover how pressing contemporary moral issues can be approached and discussed in a distinct and coherently theological fashion.
This book displays a more direct approach that has the distinct advantage of being approachable, dramatic, and contemporary. The reader is introduced to the grammar of Christian moral reasoning not by being informed about it, but by becoming familiarized with its intricate inner workings.
By demonstrating ways in which a Christian believer or congregation can think through specific moral issues in a manner that is faithful to the gospel, the volume serves a church desiring to serve the world we live in and witness to God's love in genuine and contextually truthful ways. Each chapter approaches its subject matter by demonstrating how the sources of Christian moral reasoning-Scripture and church doctrine-can be imaginatively brought to bear on contemporary moral perplexities. This mode of teaching shows in tangible ways how the Christian gospel does in fact reveal our moral world in clear and penetrating ways.
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This volume is both theologically rich and ethically relevant for students of Christian ethics in the 21st century. By centering real-world moral problems rather than ethical theories, students will learn how to make sense of the contemporary world while centering the gospel. * Devan Stahl, Baylor University, USA * Grounding themselves in the work of trailblazing thinkers such as Arendt, Bonhoeffer, and Hauerwas, the Protestant moral theologians represented in this volume take up issues that are pressing in the contemporary Western context--including incarceration, ecological distress, AI, cancel culture, healthcare, vegetarianism and euthanasia. A serious and significant contribution! * Matthew Levering, University of Saint Mary of the Lake, USA *
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Introduces the reader to Christian ethics with practical illustrations and provides tools to use the gospel to approach pressing contemporary moral issues.
Introduction (Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, UK; Nadine Hamilton,
FAU Erlangen- Nürnberg, Germany; Daniel R. Patterson, St Trivelius Institute,
Bulgaria)
Chapter 1
Christ, Culpability, and Social Deprivation (Michael Banner, University of
Cambridge, UK)
Chapter 2
Garbage: An Invitation to Face our Creaturely State (Brian Brock,
University of Aberdeen, UK)
Chapter 3
In Our Image and Likeness: Theological Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
(Ad de Bruijne, Theological University Kampen/Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Chapter 4
The Trunk of the Cross is the Tree of Life: The Frailty of the Risen Christ
and Theology of Disability (Nadine Hamilton, Friedrich Alexander University
of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Chapter 5
Who Cares? A Response of Christian Ethics to Shortages of Care (Stefan
Heuser, Nuremberg Institute of Technology, Germany)
Chapter 6
The Spirit and Surveillance: Examining Forms of Knowledge, Power, and
Discernment in the Church (Emily Beth Hill, InterVarsity, USA)
Chapter 7
What Will We Eat? Or What We Will Drink? Meat Consumption and the Messianic
Contours of The Peaceable Kingdom (Marco Hofheinz, Leibniz University,
Hannover, Germany)
Chapter 8
The Politics of Truth-telling in the Post-truth Age of Fake News
(Michael R. Laffin, University of Aberdeen, UK)
Chapter 9
Cancel Culture: Mobilising Christian Ethics at the Scene of Judgment
(Daniel R. Patterson, St. Trivelius Institute, Bulgaria)
Chapter 10
Family as Mystery: Theological Ethics Beyond Polarisation (Petruschka
Schaafsma, Protestant Theological University, Germany)
Chapter 11
The Grammar of Christian Ethics in Human Rights (Christine Schliesser,
University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Chapter 12
Preserved in God's history: On the Ethics of Dying with Some Regard to the
Discussion about Assisted Suicide (Hans G. Ulrich,
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Chapter 13
What belongs to Whom?: Property and Sustainability in Theological Light
(Cornelius van der Kooi, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Chapter 14
Stress or Vocation: Ethics and/in work (Edward vant Slot, Protestant
Theological University, The Netherlands)
Chapter 15
The Risk of Faith and the Desire for Safety in a Security Society
(Pieter Vos, Protestant Theological University, The Netherlands)
Index
Brian Brock is Chair of Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen, UK.
Nadine Hamilton is Chair of Systematic Theology at Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany.
Daniel R. Patterson is Lecturer in Theology at St Trivelius Institute, Bulgaria.
