An Introduction to Christian Ethics
History, Movements, People
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Baylor University Press
Published:17th Dec '11
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In this pedagogically astute introduction, Harry Huebner approaches Christian ethics as theology embodied in the lives of real people. And he maintains that matters of justice, poverty, power, and violence too often go without the appropriate Christian response - of the ""Word becoming Flesh."" In this comprehensive volume, Huebner skillfully addresses the ethical challenges raised by social philosophers as well as Latin American, African American, Aboriginal, feminist, and peace theologians. An Introduction to Christian Ethics spans the centuries - from Athens to contemporary America and beyond - and collects some of the most influential voices in Christian ethics on both classical theories and contemporary moral issues. Huebner's careful presentation allows each of these voices - and their distinctive cultural settings - to ring through history and across social boundaries. Huebner provides teachers and students with a solid foundation upon which to build a faithful approach to ethical thought and practice.
"Huebner's introduction presents an accurate, reliable, and comprehensive historical argument. Truly impressive in scope, it offers a recovery of Jesus in Christian ethics that is ecclesiologically engaged. I can only celebrate this huge accomplishment!" --Glen Stassen, Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics, Fuller Theological Seminary
"A strength of this text's approach to Christian ethics is Huebner's conviction that 'discipleship learning is more than mere head learning.' Such learning involves observation of Christian mentors' lives along with their ethical discourse, and appropriation of their teaching as students deepen practice of the form of life and community that has grown from God's work in Jesus Christ. In this text, valuable both for college and seminary students, Huebner selects a variety of 19th and 20th century ethicists for this kind of careful examination and inspiration." --Gayle Gerber Koontz, Professor of Theology and Ethics, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
"By placing the great figures of Christian tradition historically and biographically, Huebner illumines both their unique particularity and the ways in which they are models for today. Readers will be rewarded with new insights into 'thinkers' who come alive as 'believers' and 'practitioners.'" --Lisa Sowle Cahill, Monan Professor of Theology, Boston College
"This book does the impossible--it brings together a breadth of histories, persons and movements who constitute the core of Christian ethics in antiquity, modernity and post-modernity without sacrificing substance. An Introduction to Christian Ethics is clear, profound and a thoroughly enjoyable read and now sets the standard as the reference book for the discipline." --D. Stephen Long, Professor of Systematic Theology, Marquette University
ISBN: 9781602580633
Dimensions: 251mm x 177mm x 43mm
Weight: 1202g
686 pages