Christian ethics : a historical introduction / J. Philip Wogaman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wogaman, J. Philip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian ethics--History.

Christian ethics.

History.

Christian ethics--Methodist authors.

Physical Description:

xv, 376 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, KY : Westminster John Knox Press, [2011]

Contents:

I. The Legacies of Christian Ethics :

1. The biblical legacy of Christian ethics

2. Philosophical legacies

II. The Ethics of Early Christianity :

3. The formative years

4. Seminal thinkers and transitions

5. The moral vision of Saint Augustine

III. Medieval Christianity :

6. Monastic and mystical contributions

7. The confessional

8. The Thomistic synthesis

9. Late medieval forerunners

IV. The era of Reformation and Enlightenment :

10. The Reformers : Luther and Calvin

11. Catholic humanism and Counter-Reformation

12. The radical Reformation

V. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Rationalism and Evangelicalism :

13. Rationalism and revival in the eighteenth century

14. Nineteenth-century philosophical and Christian ethics

15. Nineteenth-century slavery and feminist controversies

VI. Christian Ethics in the Twentieth Century :

16. The social gospel movement

17. The social encyclicals

18. Formative Christian moral thinkers

19. The Vatican II watershed

20. Orthodox Christian ethics

21. Liberation theology

22. Ecumenical social ethics

VII. Christian Ethics in the Third Millennium :

23. Changed realities

24. Unresolved issues

25. Concluding reflections

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780664234096

0664234097

OCLC:

657080526

Publisher Number:

99942642233