From Christ to the world : introductory readings in Christian ethics edited by Wayne G. Boulton, T. D. Kennedy and A. Verhey [Text]

I. Sources of Christian ethics -- Biblical ethics / Allen Verhey -- Ways of using Scripture / James M. Gustafson -- Scripture and the love of God / St. Augustine -- Social ideas in the New Testament / Walter Rauschenbusch -- Biblical imperatives / Richard J. Mouw -- The moral authority of Scripture / Stanley Hauerwas -- Feminist consciousness and the interpretation of Scripture / Margaret A. Farley -- Biblical revelation and social existence / James Cone -- Tradition in ethics / Jeffrey Stout -- The transmission of divine revelation / Vatican II -- Community experience as a source of Christian ethics / James Tunstead Burtchaell -- What it means to stand in a living tradition / Douglas F. Ottati -- Feminist interpretation : a method of correlation / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- The authority of tradition / John Howard Yoder -- Excerpts from the Nicomachean Ethics / Aristotle -- Excerpts from Summa contra Gentiles and Summa theological / St. Thomas Aquinas -- Conscience and truth / Pope John Paul II -- Moral justification / Richard J. Mouw -- A historical example : the challenge of the "fools for Christ" / Christos Yannaras -- On keeping theological ethics theological / Stanley Hauerwas -- Excerpt from Humanae vitae / Pope Paul VI -- Scientific humanism and religion / Edward O. Wilson -- The abolition of man / C. S. Lewis -- The relationship of empirical science to moral thought / James M. Gustafson -- A different voice in moral decisions / Carol Gilligan -- Using empirical information / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- II. Features of Christian ethics -- Treatise on Christian liberty / Martin Luther -- The meaning of responsibility / H. Richard Niebuhr -- Three approaches / Joseph Fletcher -- The problem of Protestant ethics today / Paul Ramsey -- Values, victims, and visions / James Gaffney -- From decision to story / James W. McClendon, Jr. -- A framework for feminist ethics / Carol S. Robb -- Excerpts from The city of God and The morals of the Catholic Church / St. Augustine -- The cardinal virtues / Kenneth E. Kirk -- The relevance of an impossible ethical ideal / Reinhold Niebuhr -- Ethical principles of moral action / Paul J. Tillich -- For justice in shalom / Nicolas Wolterstorff -- Implications for a theory of justice / Karen Lebacqz -- Justice and Christian charity / Gordon Graham -- Friendship and fidelity / Gilbert Meilaender -- To bear wrongs patiently / Sidney Cornelia Callahan -- On the insufficience of human strength / Tito Colliander -- Excerpts from the Schleitheim confession of faith / The Swiss Brethren -- The riddle of Romans 13 / Wayne G. Boulton -- The civilization of the pluralist society / John Courtney Murray -- Spirituality and the corporation / Max L. Stackhouse -- The meaning of the cross for social ethics in the world today / Larry Rasmussen -- III. Issues in Christian ethics -- An ethic of marriage and family / Vigen Guroian -- Misogyny and homophobia : the unexplored connections / Beverly W. Harrison -- Excerpts from Personal commitments / Margaret A. Farley -- Respect for covenant / Lewis Smedes -- The liberal approach to sexual ethics / James Nelson -- Excerpt from Limited engagements / Philip W. Turner III -- Religion and the secularization of bioethics / Daniel Callahan -- Can theology have a role in "public" bioethical discourse / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Salvation and health : why medicine needs the church / Stanley Hauerwas -- Surrogate motherhood / Janet Dickey McDowell -- Praying with dirty hands / Allen Verhey -- The distinction between killing and allowing to die / Gilbert Meilaender -- The murmurings : slaves in the wilderness / Michael Walzer -- The grace of doing nothing / H. Richard Niebuhr -- Must we do nothing? / Reinhold Niebuhr -- The only way into the Kingdom of God / H. Richard Niebuhr -- Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Can war be just? / Thomas Kennedy -- The nonviolence of Dorothy Day / Kathleen de Sutter Jordan -- The rich man's salvation / Clement of Alexandria -- On usury / John Calvin -- The case of Christianity against capitalism / Walter Rauschenbusch -- The law of love in politics and economics / Reinhold Niebuhr -- Private property and the universal destination of material goods / Pope John Paul II -- Key themes of liberation theology / Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff -- A postcommunist manifesto / Max L. Stackhouse and Dennis P. McCann -- Responses to "A postcommunist manifesto" : ethics, economics, and the corporate life / Robert Benne and Preston N. Williams -- "The canticle of brother sun" and "How St. Francis tamed the very fierce wolf of Gubbio" / St. Francis -- Acting responsibly with respect to animals and plants / Karl Barth -- God and the world / Sallie McFague -- On slaying the dragon : the American nature myth / William F. May -- God and country / Wendell Berry.