How to Do Christian Ethics

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. The reader is introduced to the grammar of Christian moral reasoning not by being informed about it, but by becoming familiarized with its intricate inner workings.By demonstrating ways in which a Christian believer or congregation can think through specific moral issues in a manner that is faithful to the gospel, the volume serves a church desiring to serve the world we live in and witness to 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. This mode of teaching shows in tangible ways how the Christian gospel does in fact reveal our moral world in clear and penetrating ways.>

Préface
Introduces the reader to Christian ethics with practical illustrations and provides tools to use the gospel to approach pressing contemporary moral issues.

Auteur
Brian Brock is a Reader in Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Nadine Hamilton is Chair of Systematic Theology at the University of Regensurg, Germany.Daniel R. Patterson is Lecturer in Theology at St Trivelius Institute, Bulgaria

Contenu
Introduction (Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, UK; Nadine Hamilton, FAU Erlangen- Nürnberg, Germany; Daniel R. Patterson, St Trivelius Institute, Bulgaria) Chapter 1 "Garbage: An Invitation to Face our Creaturely State" (Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, UK) Chapter 2 "Meat Consumption and the Messianic Contours of 'The Peaceable Kingdom'" (Marco Hofheinz, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany) Chapter 3 "What belongs to Whom?: Property and sustainability" (Cornelius van der Kooi, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Chapter 4 "In Our Image and Likeness: Theological Ethics and Artificial Intelligence" (Ad de Bruijne, Theological University Kampen/Utrecht, The Netherlands) Chapter 5 "The Spirit and Surveillance: Examining Forms of Knowledge, Power, and Discernment in the Church" (Emily Hill, InterVarsity, USA) Chapter 6 "The 'Risk of Faith' and the Desire for Safety in a Security Society" (Pieter Vos, Protestant Theological University, The Netherlands) Chapter 7 "The Politics of Truth-telling in the 'Post-truth' Age of 'Fake News'" (Michael Laffin, University of Aberdeen, UK) Chapter 8 "Christ, Culpability, and Social Deprivation" (Michael Banner, University of Cambridge, UK) Chapter 9 "Cancel Culture: Mobilising Christian Ethics at the Scene of Judgment" (Daniel R. Patterson, St. Trivelius Institute, Bulgaria) Chapter 10 "The Grammar of Christian Ethics in Human Rights" (Christine Schliesser, University of Fribourg, Switzerland) Chapter 11 "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 12 "Who Cares? On Frameworks, Networks, and Good Works" (Stefan Heuser, Nuremberg Institute of Technology, Germany) Chapter 13 "Stress or Vocation: Ethics and/in work" (Edward van't Slot, Protestant Theological University, The Netherlands) Chapter 14 "Family as Mystery: Theological Ethics Beyond Polarisation" (Petruschka Schaafsma, Protestant Theological University, Germany) Chapter 15 "Saved in God's Story of God: On the Ethics of End-of-life Care" (Hans Ulrich, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) Bibliography Index