The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, 2nd Edition

Notes on Contributors xi

Preface xiv

Part I Studying Ethics Through Worship 1

1 Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer 3
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

2 The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It 13
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

3 Why Christian Ethics Was Invented 28
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

4 How the Church Managed Before There Was Ethics 39
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

Part II Meeting God and One Another 53

5 Gathering: Worship, Imagination, and Formation 55

1. Philip Kenneson

6 Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation 70
Emmanuel Katongole

7 Naming the Risen Lord: Embodied Discipleship and Masculinity 84
Amy Laura Hall

8 Being Reconciled: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship 97
John Berkman

9 Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts 112
Kevin J. Vanhoozer

10 Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries 124
Michael L. Budde

11 Praise: The Prophetic Public Presence of the Mentally Disabled 139
Brian Brock

Part III Re-Encountering the Story 153

12 Reading the Scriptures: Rehearsing Identity, Practicing Character 155
Jim Fodor

13 Listening: Authority and Obedience 170
Scott Bader-Saye

14 Proclaiming: Naming and Describing 184
Charles Pinches

15 Deliberating: Justice and Liberation 197
Daniel M. Bell

16 Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation 211
William T. Cavanaugh

17 Confessing the Faith: Reasoning in Tradition 224
Nicholas Adams

Part IV Being Embodied 237

18 Interceding: Poverty and Prayer 239
Kelly S. Johnson

19 Interceding: Giving Grief to Management 251
Michael Hanby

20 Interceding: Standing, Kneeling, and Gender 264
Lauren F. Winner

21 Being Baptized: Race 277
Willie Jennings

22 Being Baptized: Bodies and Abortion 290
Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt

23 Becoming One Body: Health Care and Cloning 303
M. Therese Lysaught

24 Becoming One Flesh: Marriage, Remarriage, and Sex 316
David Matzko McCarthy

25 Sharing Peace: Class, Hierarchy, and Christian Social Order 329
Luke Bretherton

26 Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust 344
Paul J. Wadell

Part V Re-Enacting the Story 357

27 Offering: Treasuring the Creation 359
Ben Quash

28 Participating: Working Toward Worship 374
R. R. Reno

29 Remembering: Offering Our Gifts 387
D. Stephen Long and Tripp York

30 Invoking: Globalization and Power 401
Timothy Jarvis Gorringe

31 Breaking Bread: Peace and War 415
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

32 Receiving Communion: Euthanasia, Suicide, and Letting Die 427
Kathryn Greene-McCreight

33 Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, and Genetically Modifi ed Foods 440
Robert Song

34 Eating Together: Friendship and Homosexuality 453
Joel James Shuman

35 Being Silent: Time in the Spirit 466
Michael S. Northcott

36 Footwashing: Preparation for Christian Life 479
Mark Thiessen Nation

Part VI Being Commissioned 491

37 Being Blessed: Wealth, Property, and Theft 493
Stephen Fowl

38 Bearing Fruit: Conception, Children, and the Family 506
Joseph L. Mangina

39 Being Sent: Witness 519
Michael G. Cartwright

Afterword 533

40 The Virtue of the Liturgy 535
Jennifer Herdt

41 Afterword 547
Rowan Williams

Index 551