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Christian ethics : a historical introduction / J. Philip Wogaman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wogaman, J. Philip, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian ethics--History.
- Christian ethics.
- Christian ethics--Methodist authors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 376 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- An updated survey of Christian ethics which addresses major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present; and discusses a broad range of topics, including the biblical and philosophical legacies of Christian ethics and ethics through the early, medieval, Reformation, Enlightenment, and modern eras.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The legacies of Christian ethics
- The biblical legacy of Christian ethics
- Philosophical legacies
- pt. 2. The ethics of early Christianity
- The formative years
- Seminal thinkers and transitions
- The moral vision of Saint Augustine
- pt. 3. Medieval Christianity
- Monastic and mystical contributions
- The confessional
- The Thomistic synthesis
- Late medieval forerunners
- pt. 4. The era of Reformation and Enlightenment
- The reformers : Luther and Calvin
- Catholic humanism and Counter-Reformation
- The radical Reformation
- pt. 5. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rationalism and evangelicalism
- Rationalism and revival in the eighteenth century
- Nineteenth-century philosophical and Christian ethics
- Nineteenth-century slavery and feminist controversies
- pt. 6. Christian ethics in the twentieth century
- The social gospel movement
- The social encyclicals
- Formative Christian moral thinkers
- The Vatican II watershed
- Orthodox Christian ethics
- Liberation theology
- Ecumenical social ethics
- pt. 7. Christian ethics in the third millennium
- Changed realities
- Unresolved issues
- Concluding reflections.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781611642919
- 1611642914
- OCLC:
- 923513123
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