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- Christian Social Teachings: A Reader in Christian Social Ethics from the Bible to the Present
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- 2012
- Published by: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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No question has been as persistently nettling as the proper relationship of Christians and the Christian church to political power, and the results have often been calamitous. 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. In readings that range from the Bible to church fathers to Bonhoeffer and Pope Benedict XVI, these substantial excerpts enable the student to see the flow of Christian thought and the deeper religious context for addressing today's most pressing problems.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-5
- A Thematic Organization of Sources
- pp. xii-13
- Part 1: Biblical Influences
- pp. 1-16
- 1. Hebrew Bible
- pp. 2-6
- 2. New Testament
- pp. 7-16
- Part 2: The Early Church
- pp. 17-32
- 3. Apostolic Fathers
- pp. 18-25
- 4. Tertullian
- pp. 26-33
- 5. The Alexandrian School
- pp. 34-39
- 6. Chrysostom
- pp. 40-43
- 7. Augustine
- pp. 44-56
- Part 3: The Medieval Church
- pp. 57-72
- 8. Monasticism
- pp. 58-65
- 9. The Mystics
- pp. 66-75
- 10. Thomas Aquinas
- pp. 76-98
- 11. The Medieval Papacy
- pp. 99-102
- Part 4: The Reformation
- pp. 103-118
- 12. Martin Luther
- pp. 104-118
- 13. John Calvin
- pp. 119-128
- 14. The Anabaptists
- pp. 129-139
- Part 5: Post-Reformation England and America
- pp. 147-162
- 16. The Puritans
- pp. 148-152
- 17. Roger Williams
- pp. 153-158
- 18. The Quakers
- pp. 159-164
- Part 6: Eighteenth-Century Voices
- pp. 165-180
- 19. Rationalism
- pp. 166-171
- 20. Pietism
- pp. 172-180
- 21. John Wesley
- pp. 181-194
- Part 7: Nineteenth-Century Voices
- pp. 195-210
- 22. Friedrich Schleiermacher
- pp. 196-198
- 23. Horace Bushnell
- pp. 199-202
- 24. Frederick Denison Maurice
- pp. 203-206
- 25. Abolitionists
- pp. 207-212
- 26. Albrecht Ritschl
- pp. 213-216
- 28. Pope John XXIII and Vatican II
- pp. 224-232
- 29. United States Catholic Bishops
- pp. 233-240
- 30. The Social Gospel
- pp. 242-251
- 31. Reinhold Niebuhr
- pp. 252-265
- 32. Paul Tillich
- pp. 266-271
- 33. Karl Barth
- pp. 272-284
- 34. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- pp. 285-296
- 35. Feminist Voices
- pp. 298-323
- 36. Womanist Voices
- pp. 324-344
- 37. Justice and Liberation
- pp. 346-376
- 38. Human Sexuality
- pp. 377-409
- 39. Environmental Ethics
- pp. 410-441
- 40. Biomedical Ethics
- pp. 442-474
- 41. Pacifism, Just War, and Terrorism
- pp. 475-490
- 43. Trinitarian Theology and Social Ethics
- pp. 509-522
- Bibliography of Original Sources
- pp. 523-531
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9781451424348
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OCLC
868221297
Pages
500
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
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