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. It introduces the reader to the grammar of Christian moral reasoning and expands upon its intricate inner workings.
By demonstrating ways in which a Christian believer or congregation can think through specific moral issues, the volume serves a church desiring to witness 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. The form of teaching practices here makes tangible the ways in which the Christian gospel clearly and even penetratingly illumines our contemporary moral contexts.
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? On Frameworks, Networks, and Good Works” (Stefan Heuser, Nuremberg Institute of Technology, Germany) Chapter 6 “The Spirit and Surveillance: Examining Forms of Knowledge, Power, and Discernment in the Church” (Emily Hill, InterVarsity, USA) Chapter 7 “What Will We Eat? Or What Will We 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 Laffin, University of Aberdeen, UK) Chapter 9 “Cancel Culture: Mobilizing 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 “Saved in God’s Story of God: On the Ethics of End-of-life Care” (Hans Ulrich, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) Chapter 13 “What belongs to Whom?: Property and sustainability” (Cornelius van der Kooi, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Chapter 14 “Stress or Vocation: Ethics and/in work” (Edward van’t 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) Bibliography 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.
Reviews for How To Do Christian Ethics: Living the Grammar of Christian Life Every Day
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 *