Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics

THE EDITORS STANLEY HAUERWAS is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. His numerous books include The Peaceable Kingdom (2003) and Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir (2010). SAMUEL WELLS is Dean of Duke University Chapel and Research Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke Divinity School. His books include Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics (2004), God's Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics (2006), Power and Passion: Six Characters in Search of Resurrection (2007), Speaking the Truth (2008), and, with Ben Quash, Introducing Christian Ethics (2010).

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• Notes on Contributors xiPreface xivPart I Studying Ethics Through Worship 11 Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer 3Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells2 The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It 13Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells3 Why Christian Ethics Was Invented 28Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells4 How the Church Managed Before There Was Ethics 39Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel WellsPart II Meeting God and One Another 535 Gathering: Worship, Imagination, and Formation 55 Philip Kenneson6 Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation 70Emmanuel Katongole7 Naming the Risen Lord: Embodied Discipleship and Masculinity 84Amy Laura Hall8 Being Reconciled: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship 97John Berkman9 Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts 112Kevin J. Vanhoozer10 Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries 124Michael L. Budde11 Praise: The Prophetic Public Presence of the Mentally Disabled 139Brian BrockPart III Re-Encountering the Story 15312 Reading the Scriptures: Rehearsing Identity, Practicing Character 155Jim Fodor13 Listening: Authority and Obedience 170Scott Bader-Saye14 Proclaiming: Naming and Describing 184Charles Pinches15 Deliberating: Justice and Liberation 197Daniel M. Bell16 Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation 211William T. Cavanaugh17 Confessing the Faith: Reasoning in Tradition 224Nicholas AdamsPart IV Being Embodied 23718 Interceding: Poverty and Prayer 239Kelly S. Johnson19 Interceding: Giving Grief to Management 251Michael Hanby20 Interceding: Standing, Kneeling, and Gender 264Lauren F. Winner21 Being Baptized: Race 277Willie Jennings22 Being Baptized: Bodies and Abortion 290Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt23 Becoming One Body: Health Care and Cloning 303M. Therese Lysaught24 Becoming One Flesh: Marriage, Remarriage, and Sex 316David Matzko McCarthy25 Sharing Peace: Class, Hierarchy, and Christian Social Order 329Luke Bretherton26 Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust 344Paul J. WadellPart V Re-Enacting the Story 35727 Offering: Treasuring the Creation 359Ben Quash28 Participating: Working Toward Worship 374R. R. Reno29 Remembering: Offering Our Gifts 387D. Stephen Long and Tripp York30 Invoking: Globalization and Power 401Timothy Jarvis Gorringe31 Breaking Bread: Peace and War 415Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells32 Receiving Communion: Euthanasia, Suicide, and Letting Die 427Kathryn Greene-McCreight33 Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, and Genetically Modifi ed Foods 440Robert Song34 Eating Together: Friendship and Homosexuality 453Joel James Shuman35 Being Silent: Time in the Spirit 466Michael S. Northcott36 Footwashing: Preparation for Christian Life 479Mark Thiessen NationPart VI Being Commissioned 49137 Being Blessed: Wealth, Property, and Theft 493Stephen Fowl38 Bearing Fruit: Conception, Children, and the Family 506Joseph L. Mangina39 Being Sent: Witness 519Michael G. CartwrightAfterword 53340 The Virtue of the Liturgy 535Jennifer Herdt41 Afterword 547Rowan WilliamsIndex 551