1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics

Edited By D. Stephen Long, Rebekah L. Miles Copyright 2023
566 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

566 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

566 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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,... Read more

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.