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1 online resource (xiv, 533 pages) |
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Part I. Biblical influences -- ch. 1. Hebrew Bible -- 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 -- ch. 2. New Testament -- Matthew 5 -- Luke 4:14-21 and Mathhew 11:2-6 -- Luke 10:25-37 -- Luke 12:15-31 -- Romans 13 and 1 Pter 2:13-3:8 -- 1 John 4:7-21 and 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 -- Part II. The early church -- ch. 3. Apostolic fathers -- The Epistle of Barnabas xvii-xxi -- The first apology of Justin Martyr 14-17, 27-29 -- Irenaeus, against heresies, book v, chapter 24 -- ch. 4. Tertullian -- Apology, chapters 39-45 -- Spectacles, chapters 8-10 -- ch. 5. The Alexandrian school -- The instructor, book i, chapter xiii -- the rick man's salvation -- Origen : against Celsus, book viii, 73-75 -- ch. 6. Chrysostom -- Concerning the statutes, homily xii, 9, 12-15 -- Homilies on Matthew, xix, 6.1 -- ch. 7. Augustine -- 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, 424, xxvi, and xxvii -- A good marriage, chapters 3, 6, 7, 10 -- Peace and just war, city of God, book xv, 4; xix, 7 -- Part III. The medieval church -- ch. 8. Monasticism -- The rule of Sain Benedict -- The rule of Saint Francis -- St. Francis's canticle of the sun -- ch. 9. The mystics -- One lvoe of God / Bernard of Clairvaus -- The talks of instruction, nos. 2, 4, 5, 7, 18 / Meister Eckhart -- The dialogue or a treatise of divine providence / Catherine of Siena -- ch. 10. Thomas Aquinas -- 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 -- ch. 11. The medieval Papacy -- Pope Gregory VII excommunication decree 1076 -- Unam Sanctam 1302 -- Part IV. The Reformation -- ch. 12. Martin Luther -- Treatise on Christian liberty, 1520 -- Temporal authority : to what extent it should be oveyed, 1522 -- Against the robbing and murdering horde of peasants, ca. 1525 -- ch. 13. John Calvin -- Institutes, book ii, chapter ii, no. 1 -- Institutes, book 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 -- ch. 14. The Anabaptists -- The schleitheim confession of faith -- Sermon to the princes / Thomas Muntzer -- Reply to false accusation / Menno Simons -- ch. 15. Post-Reformation England and America -- ch. 16. The Puritans -- An agreement of the people -- The law of freedom in a platform or true magistracy restored (1652) / Gerrard Winstanley -- ch. 17. Roger Williams -- The bloody tenent of persecution (July 15, 1644) -- ch. 18. The Quakers -- Rules of discipline [society of friends] -- Rules of discipline [opposition to war] -- Rules of discipline [abolition of slavery] |
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Part VI. Eighteenth-century voices -- ch. 19. Rationalism -- The reasonableness of Christianity / John Locke -- Upon the love of our neighbor / Joseph Butler -- ch. 20. Pietism -- Pia desideria / Philip Jacob Spener -- Scriptural rules / August Hermann Francke -- ch. 21. John Wesley -- The use of money -- Thoughts upon slavery -- Thoughts on the present scarcity of provisions -- Part VII. Nineteenth-century boices -- ch. 22. Friedrick Schleiermacher -- On Christian social ehtics -- ch. 23. Horace Bushnell -- Politics under the law of God -- ch. 24. Frederick Denison Maurice -- The kingdom of Christ -- ch. 25. Abolitionists -- Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth -- The meaning of July Fourth for the negro / Frederick Douglas -- ch. 26. Albrecht Ritschl -- Liberal theology -- Part VIII. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Catholic social teaching -- ch. 27. On behalf of workers : Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression -- Rerum novarum, May 15, 1891 / Leo III -- Quadragesimo anno, 1931 / Pope Pous XI -- ch. 28. Pope John XXIII and Vatican II -- Pacem in terris (1963) / John XXIII -- Gaudium et spes (1965) / Vatican Council II -- ch. 29. United States Catholic bishops -- The challenge of peace : God's promise and our response (1983) -- Economic justice for all (1986) -- Part IX. Early- to mid-twentieth-century voices -- ch. 30. The social gospel -- Social redemption / Washington Gladden -- A theology for the social gospel / Walter Rauchenbusch -- ch. 31. Reinhold Niebuhr -- An interpretation of Christian ethics -- justice and love -- Christian faith and natural law -- ch. 32. Paul Tillich -- The kingdom of God in history, systematic theology, vvolume three -- ch. 33. karl Barth -- The Christian community and the civil community, community, state, and church -- ch. 34. Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- The concrete commandment and the divine mandates, ethics letters and papers from prison -- Part X. Twentieth-century feminist and womanist ethics -- ch. 35. Feminist voices -- Sexism and God-talk / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Feminism and Christian ehtics, freeing theology : the essentials of theology in feminist perspective / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Making the connections : wssays in feminist social ethics / Beverly Wildung Harrison -- ch. 36. Womanist voices -- Katie's canon : womanism and the soul fo the black community / katie Geneva Cannon -- White women's Jesus adn black woman's Christ : feminist Christology and womanist response / Jacquelyn Grant -- Womanist theology : black women's voice / Delores S. Williams -- Part XI. Contemporary issues : the mid-tweenthieth century to the present -- ch. 37. Justice and liberation -- Letter from a Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King Jr. -- A black theology of liberation / Jame sH. Cone -- A theology of liberation : history, politics, and salvation / Gustavo Gutierrez -- The principle of mercy : taking the crucified people fromt he cross / Jon Sobrino -- ch. 38. Human sexuality -- Catholic social and sexual teaching : a methodological comparison / Charles Curran -- Life without anchors : sex, exchange, and human rights in a postmodern world / Christine Gudorf -- The Lambeth Conference 1998, resolution i.10 human sexuality -- World council of churches' contributions to the discussions on human sexuality : from Harare to Porto Alegre, background document, Geneva 2006 -- Just love : a framework for Christian sexual theics / Margaret Farley -- ch. 39. Environmental ethics -- Called to unity (1962) / Joseph Sittler -- Is eco-justice central to Christian faith? earth community, earth ethics / Larry L. Rasmussen -- The body of God : an ecological theology / Sallie McFague -- Loving nature : ecological integrity and Christian responsibility / James Nash -- ch. 40. Biomedical ehtics -- Fabricated man / Paul Ramsey -- Morals and medicine / Joseph Fletcher -- How brave a new world : dilemmas in bioethics / ricahrd A. McCormick -- The contributions of theology to medical ethics / james Gustafson -- Tehological and moral reflections on stem cell research / Paul T. Jersild -- ch. 41. Pacifism, just war, and terrorism -- A practical Christian pacifism / David A. Hoekema -- Address of Pope John Paul II to the diplomatic corps, January 13, 2003 -- Just war against terror / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- ch. 42. The church in the world and the ethics of virt-- The priestly kingdom : social ethics as gospel / John howard Yoder -- A community fo character : toward a consturctive Christian social ethic / Stanley Hauerwas -- The recovery of virtue : the relevance of Aquinas for Christian ethics -- ch. 43. Trinitarian theology and social ehtics -- The trinity and the kingdom / Jurgen Moltmann -- God for us : the trinity and Christian life / Catherine Mowry LaCugna |
| Summary |
Jesus as an instigator of revolutionary change. This classic collection of Christian statements on social ethics, now fully revised and augmented, provides a panoramic view of the 2000-year development of Christian concerns for political justice, peace, civil rights, family law, civil liberties, and other ""worldly"" issues |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Christian literature.
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Christian sociology.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Christian literature.
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RELIGION -- Ethics.
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Christian sociology.
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Electronic book
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Forell, George W. (George Wolfgang), 1919-2011
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Childs, James M., 1939-
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| ISBN |
9781451424348 |
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1451424345 |
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