1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics
The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics brings together two different but related disciplines; the first is contemplative or theoretical, asking what are the beliefs or doctrines that characterize Christianity, whilst the second is practical, asking what are the ethical practices that attend its teachings. The movement between the theoretical and practical aspects is not, however, one way, as doctrine and life are mutually informing. In this comprehensive volume, leading scholars address key topics, problems and debates in this hotly debated topic within a truly global context.
Comprising over 35 chapters by a team of international contributors, the handbook is divided into three parts based on the three persons of the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Within these sections, cutting-edge issues are examined, including:
- God and genetics
- War, peace, and violence
- White supremacy
- Creation and sexuality
- Digital ethics
- Transgender studies
- Climate change
- Immigration and refugees
Adopting a practical approach that must consider new concerns that have arisen with recent social, political, and cultural shifts, The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics is essential reading for students and researchers in Christian ethics, religious ethics and Christianity studies. The handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields such as ethics and philosophy.
Editors’ Introduction
D. Stephen Long and Rebekah L. Miles
1. Ethics and the Triune God
Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt
2. Creator, Creation, and Gender
Karen Baker-Fletcher
Part 1: God the Father
3. God and Genetics
Donna Yarri & Spencer S. Stober
4. Creator, Christ, and Sexuality
Robert Song
5. Creation for a Just World: Racism in Architecture and Public Space
Elise M. Edwards
6. Providence and the Ethics of Governance
Robin Lovin
7. Providence and Neuroethics
Neil Messer
8. Natural and Divine Law
Elisabeth Rain Kincaid
9. Natural and Infused, the Ethics of Data
D. Stephen Long
10. Sin, Evil, and Global Inequality/ies
E.D. Reed
11. Grace and the Ethics of Work
Kathryn Tanner
12. Grace, Immigration, Refugees
Ruben Rosario Rodriguez
13. God (gods) and Religious Freedom: A Chinese Engagement
Zhibin Xie
Part 2: God the Son
14. Christology and Disability: Perceiving Christ in the Face of the Disabled
Brian Brock
15. Mariology: Marriage, Singleness, and Family
Jana Marguerite Bennett
16. Abortion Reframed: An Ethic of Care in a Liberationist-Marian Context
Debra Dean Murphy
17. Incarnation, Climate Change, and Disembodiment
Jonathan Tran
18. Incarnation, Jubilee, and Rural Ethics
Justin Barringer
19. Crucifixion and Violence
Kevin Carnahan
20. Crucifixion, Torture, and Capital Punishment
Tobias Winright
21. Resurrection and Queer Identity
Lisa Powell
22. Judgment, Sex Trafficking and Bonded Labor
Chris Gooding
23. Eucharistic Misogynoir in Words and Institutions: Bondage, Labor, and the Ethics of Care
Oluwatomisin Oredein
24. Eschatology and Political Ethics
Tom James and David True
Part 3: God the Holy Spirit
25. Pneumatology, Restorative Justice, and Prison Abolition
Nathaniel Grimes, Kathyrn Getek Soltis, Vincent Lloyd
26. Worship, Freedom, and Liberation
Daniel M. Bell Jr.
27. White American Evangelicals and a Populist Ethic
Marcia Pally
28. Sacramental Biopolitics After COVID-19
M. Therese Lysaught
29. Preaching, Language, and Truth
Jason Byassee
30. Sin, US Settler Colonialism, and the Holy Spirit
Lisa Dellinger
31. Prayer and Baptism, Calmly Considered: Black Atlantic Churches, Martin Luther King Jr., and Economic Rights
Theodore Walker Jr.
32. Liturgy, Libertad, Liberation: Reflections from the American Global South
Edgardo Colón-Emeric
33. Sabbath, Jubilee, and Christian Socialism
Joshua Davis
34. Covenant vs. Contract: Engineering in the Spirit
Brad J. Kallenberg
35. Gender Identity, Redemption, and Sanctification
Scott Bader-Saye
36. Deification: Artificial Intelligence, Work and War
Mark Graves
37. Resurrection of the Body: Posthuman Evolution
Brent Waters
38. New Creation and Digital Society
Kate Ott
39. New Creation: An Ethics of Dying and Hope
Rebekah L. Miles.
Index
Biography
D. Stephen Long is Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University, USA.
Rebekah L. Miles is Susanna Wesley Professor of Practical Theology and Ethics at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, USA.
