The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

Featuring updates, revisions, and new essays from various scholars within the Christian tradition, The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, Second Edition reveals how Christian worship is the force that shapes the moral life of Christians. * Features new essays on class, race, disability, gender, peace, and the virtues * Includes a number of revised essays and a range of new authors * The innovative and influential approach organizes ethical themes around the shape of Christian worship * The original edition is the most successful to-date in the Companions to Religion series

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Table of Contents

Half title page

Blackwell Companions to Religion

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Notes on Contributors

Preface

Part I: Studying Ethics Through Worship

CHAPTER 1 Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer

Why Study Ethics Through Worship?

How Does the Liturgy Inform and Shape the Christian Life?

Worship as a Series of Practices

A Story

CHAPTER 2 The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It

God

The Gifts of God

The Gift of the Church

Ethics

CHAPTER 3 Why Christian Ethics Was Invented

CHAPTER 4 How the Church Managed Before There Was Ethics

Part II: Meeting God and One Another

CHAPTER 5 Gathering: Worship, Imagination, and Formation

The Pervasiveness of Worship

Learning to Worship

The Ekklesia as Formative Gathering

Conclusion

CHAPTER 6 Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation

On Discovering Race: A Personal Story

The Consolation of Philosophy

Theology and Racial Reconciliation

Christian Worship as a “Wild Space”

On Being Greeted in the Name of the Trinity

Beyond Modern Anthropology

The Performance of a Christian Anthropology

A Christian Ethics

Beyond Docetism: On “Touching Color”

Conclusion

CHAPTER 7 Naming the Risen Lord: Embodied Discipleship and Masculinity

Greeting

Gender

Masculinity

About a Man

CHAPTER 8 Being Reconciled: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship

A Reconciled and Reconciling People

Who Needs to Repent and be Reconciled? Discovering Who We Are

Eucharistic Reconciliation: Restoration and Transformation

The Practice of Eucharistic Reconciliation: Punishment in Theological Perspective

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 9 Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts

Doxology: In Praise of Beauty?

The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: The Ancient/Modern Quarrel

Beauty and Imagination in the Christian Life: Beholding and Beholden to

“Praise without Ceasing”: A Diet of Doxology

Conclusion: Living Beautifully

CHAPTER 10 Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries

Culture Industries as Industries

Ways to Think about Media and Communications

Media and Ecclesial Formation

Worship as a Site for Christian Resistance and Formation?

Conclusion

CHAPTER 11 Praise: The Prophetic Public Presence of the Mentally Disabled

Friday Night at the Pub

Saturday Afternoon at the Pool

The Church as the Practice Ground for Empathy

Public Beggars and Dancers

The Assault of the Prophetic Christ

Worship and Annunciation

Part III: Re-Encountering the Story

CHAPTER 12 Reading the Scriptures: Rehearsing Identity, Practicing Character

Reading Scripture Liturgically: A “Composite” Portrait

Scripture Reading as Scriptural Reasoning: Exercises in the Grammar of Faith

Scripture Reading as Conversion: Ethical Formation and Identity Constitution

Conclusion

CHAPTER 13 Listening: Authority and Obedience

Modernity: The Crisis of Authority

Scripture: Authority as Transparent and Cruciform

Liturgy: Speaking and Hearing the Authoritative Word

Community: Authority in Strength and Weakness

World: Engaging Edges

CHAPTER 14 Proclaiming: Naming and Describing

An Introduction to Preaching

Doing Things with Words

Ethics, Morality, and the Wisdom of the World

The Miracle of the Multiplication of the Words

Living Tradition

CHAPTER 15 Deliberating: Justice and Liberation

What is Justice?

Jesus, the Justice of God

Works of Mercy

Conclusion

CHAPTER 16 Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation

Scattering

Gathering

Liturgy

Church and Politics

CHAPTER 17 Confessing the Faith: Reasoning in Tradition

Tradition and Reasoning

Knowing

Trinitarian Reasoning

Prayerful Reasoning

Living Signs

Part IV: Being Embodied

CHAPTER 18 Interceding: Poverty and Prayer

Prayer and our Habits of Exchange

Intercession in the Liturgy

Christian Unity and Intercession

CHAPTER 19 Interceding: Giving Grief to Management

Several Habits of Highly Effective People

The Habit and Hope of Worship

CHAPTER 20 Interceding: Standing, Kneeling, and Gender

JPH’s Kneeler

What Kind of Difference is Sex?

From Gender-Bending to Body-Bending

CHAPTER 21 Being Baptized: Race

The Emergence of the Racial Condition

The Immersion of Christianity into Racial Existence

The Church and Baroque Baptism

CHAPTER 22 Being Baptized: Bodies and Abortion

Abortion and Perplexity

Bodies and their Virtues

Building a Temple for the Spirit

Baptized Bodies in the Midst of the Nations: Beyond the Minimally Decent Samaritan

CHAPTER 23 Becoming One Body: Health Care and Cloning

Cloning and its Ends

Cloning and its Bio-utopia

That Peculiar Practice Called Baptism

Baptism: The End of Cloning

CHAPTER 24 Becoming One Flesh: Marriage, Remarriage, and Sex

The Tie that Unwinds

The Tie that Binds

One Bread, One Body

Indissolubility, Dissolution, and Remarriage

Conclusion and Sex

CHAPTER 25 Sharing Peace: Class, Hierarchy, and Christian Social Order

Introduction

Class, Power, and Inequality

Class and Political Economy

Worship as a Mode of Production, Distribution, and Consumption

Class, Corporatism, and Covenant

Classlessness and the Peace of the Earthly City

CHAPTER 26 Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust

The Church: Called to be an Icon of the Trinity

Eucharist: Learning and Living the Practices of Peace

The Communal Life of Charity: Living in the Peace of Christ

Part V: Re-Enacting the Story

CHAPTER 27 Offering: Treasuring the Creation

Issues

Liturgical Offering

How Christian Practice in Relation to the Environment Might be Shaped by Worship

Acknowledgment

CHAPTER 28 Participating: Working Toward Worship

Disciplining Necessity of Work

Bitter Necessity of Work

Work as a Humanizing Activity

Doing the Work of the Lord

CHAPTER 29 Remembering: Offering Our Gifts

Bringing our Gifts to the Altar

Is Such a Gift Possible?

Liberal Redemption: Contract and Forgetting

Gifts: Outside Politics

A Different Kind of Gift: The Politics of Remembering

The Gift of Life

Remembering our Debts

CHAPTER 30 Invoking: Globalization and Power

The Four Faces of Globalization

Three Eucharistic Snapshots

Two Theologies

Invocation

CHAPTER 31 Breaking Bread: Peace and War

War as Liturgy

War as Sacrifice

The Non-Liturgical Portrayal of War

War and the Broken Body

Conclusion

CHAPTER 32 Receiving Communion: Euthanasia, Suicide, and Letting Die

Euthanasia

Suicide

Letting Die

CHAPTER 33 Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, and Genetically Modified Foods

One Bread, One Body

Embodying the Eucharist: Eucharistic Practices in a Hungry World

The Case of Genetically Modified Foods

The Eucharist and the Judgment of God

CHAPTER 34 Eating Together: Friendship and Homosexuality

Bewildered

A Logic and Politics of the Christian Body

Eating Together

Living Together

CHAPTER 35 Being Silent: Time in the Spirit

Maranatha: Veni Domine

Surrexit Dominus Vere

Veni Sancte Spiritus

CHAPTER 36 Footwashing: Preparation for Christian Life

Footwashing: The Text

The Community of Footwashers

Footwashing: A Story

Footwashing: An Uncommon Practice

Footwashing: An Adequate Preparation for the Christian Life

Acknowledgments

Part VI: Being Commissioned

CHAPTER 37 Being Blessed: Wealth, Property, and Theft

The Ambiguous Relationship between Blessing and Possessions

Blessing, Possessions, and the Knowledge of God

Blessing, Possessions, and the Shape of Christian Communities: Acts and Ephesians

Conclusion

CHAPTER 38 Bearing Fruit: Conception, Children, and the Family

Saying the Blessing: The Family

On Not Hindering the Blessing: Children

Conceiving the Blessing: Procreation

CHAPTER 39 Being Sent: Witness

What Does it Mean for Christians to be Witnesses in and for the World?

Evangelization: What Does it Mean for Christians to Evangelize their Neighbors?

Witnesses in a Pluralistic World?

How Should Christians Go About Making Common Cause with Non-Christians?

Afterword

CHAPTER 40 The Virtue of the Liturgy

Liturgy and the Secular

Casuistry and the Liturgical Imagination

Getting Worship Wrong

Acknowledgment

CHAPTER 41 Afterword

Index

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For

Ella Baker, pioneer

William Stringfellow, prophet

Gene Stoltzfus, peacemaker

Pauli Murray, priest

Notes on Contributors

Nicholas Adams is Lecturer in Theology at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Scott Bader-Saye is Helen and Everett H. Jones Professor of Christian Ethics and Moral Theology, Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas.

Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt is Associate Professor of Theology, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland.

Daniel M. Bell is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina.

John Berkman is Associate Professor of Moral Theology and the Director of the Lupina Centre for Spirituality, Healthcare, and Ethics, Regis College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.

Luke Bretherton is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Politics, King’s College London, England.

Brian Brock is Lecturer in Moral and Practical Theology, King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Michael L. Budde is Professor of Catholic Studies and Political Science and Senior Research Scholar, Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.

Michael G. Cartwright is Dean of Ecumenical and Interfaith Programs and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana.

William T. Cavanaugh is Senior Research Professor, Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology; and Professor of Catholic Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.

Jim Fodor is Professor of Theology, Saint Bonaventure University, Saint Bonaventure, New York.

Stephen Fowl is Professor of New Testament, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland.

Timothy Jarvis Gorringe is Professor of Theology, University of Exeter, Exeter, England.

Kathryn Greene-McCreight is Associate Priest at St John’s Episcopal Church, New Haven, Connecticut.

Amy Laura Hall is Associate Professor of Theology, Duke Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Michael Hanby is Assistant Professor of Biotechnology and Culture at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

Stanley Hauerwas is Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Jennifer Herdt is Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale Divinity School, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Willie Jennings is Associate Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies, Duke Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Kelly Johnson is Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio.

Emmanuel Katongole is Professor of Theology and Ethics at the University of the Martyrs, Uganda; and at the Duke Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Philip Kenneson is Professor of Theology and Philosophy, Milligan College, Johnson City, Tennessee.

D. Stephen Long is Professor of Systematic Theology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

M. Therese Lysaught is Associate Professor of Theology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Joseph L. Mangina is Associate Professor of Theology, Wycliffe College, Toronto School of Theology, Toronto, Ontario.

David Matzko McCarthy is Fr Forker Professor of Catholic Social Teaching at Mount St Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Mark Thiessen Nation is Professor of Theology, Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Michael S. Northcott is Professor of Ethics, the Divinity School, Edinburgh University; and a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church.

Charles Pinches is Professor of Theology, University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Ben Quash is Professor of Christianity and the Arts, King’s College London, England.

R. R. Reno is Associate Professor of Theology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.

Joel James Shuman is Associate Professor of Theology, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Robert Song is Lecturer in Christian Ethics, University of Durham, Durham, England.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer is Blanchard Professor of Theology, Wheaton College Graduate School, Wheaton, Illinois.

Paul J. Wadell is Professor of Religious Studies, St Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin.

Samuel Wells is Dean of Duke Chapel, Duke University; and Research Professor of Christian Ethics, Duke Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Rowan Williams is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Lauren F. Winner is Assistant Professor of Christian Spirituality, Duke Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Tripp York is Instructor of Religious Studies, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Preface

We are gratified that a second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics seems needed. The first edition, as we had hoped, seems to have struck a chord – an image we think particularly appropriate for a book shaped by the presumption that there is, and must be, a liturgical shape to the Christian moral life. That presumption was, however, just that: namely, a presumption that begged for concrete development. We asked much, therefore, from those who wrote in the first edition; that there is now a second edition is a testimony to their labors.

Given the exploratory character of our first endeavor, we thought it wise to provide each author of the chapters in the first edition an opportunity to revise their essays in the light of what has been learned since the publication of the book. Several of our authors took advantage of that opportunity. We also thought that some of the chapters, such as those on war, disability, and euthanasia, might benefit by being written by a different author or authors. There was nothing “wrong” with the original chapters on those topics, but we simply thought it would be interesting to have those topics addressed from a fresh perspective.

We also have added chapters on class, race, feminism, and the virtues. That we have done so we hope indicates that we really have learned something from reviews and reactions to the first edition. We had assumed that those topics had been addressed by several of the chapters in the first edition, but we were clearly wrong.

We never intended for The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics to be the last word on Christian ethics. Indeed, we wanted it to be “a beginning word” that would span diverse but hopefully complementary ways to think about Christian theology and ethics. For example one of us, Hauerwas, thinks Wells’s and Quash’s Introduction to Christian Ethics exemplifies the kind of book we hope The Blackwell Companion makes possible.

We again thank all the authors who have made this book possible. We are grateful to Rebekah Eklund, whose attention to detail and eye for clarity have done much to improve the manuscript. Especially we thank Rebecca Harkin, not only for making this book possible, but for her passion for insuring that work in theology sees the light of day.

This Companion is dedicated to four good companions, whose lives we take to exemplify and embody the complexity and the simplicity of what this book advocates. In the end, this book is a prayer that many may come to live lives like theirs.

Part I: Studying Ethics Through Worship

1 Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer

Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

2 The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It

Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

3 Why Christian Ethics Was Invented

Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

4 How the Church Managed Before There was Ethics

Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

CHAPTER 1

Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer

Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

The aim of this volume is to stretch, inspire, and develop the reader’s conception of Christian worship in order to challenge, enrich, and transform the reader’s notions of the form and content of Christian ethics. To suggest that assumptions about Christian worship could benefit from an overhaul might be regarded as uncontroversial. To suggest, however, that assumptions about Christian ethics might be altered, and, furthermore, that that alteration might take place through the exploration of the liturgy, might come as rather more of a surprise. The purpose of this chapter is to explain why the authors of this volume have chosen to perceive the discipline of Christian ethics through the lens of Christian worship, most particularly the Eucharist.

The book is written for those who sense that the problem with Christian ethics is not just the complexity and elusiveness of the questions it faces, but also the methods and environments in which it is understood to be studied. Hence the book is written in a style that is designed to be accessible to an introductory student, but it is hoped that even the most experienced practitioner in the field will have much to discover and ponder in its pages. The issues raised concern not just Christian ethics but Christian theology as well. Christians approach worship with an expectation that God will be made known through the liturgy, and Christians who approach ethics in ways informed by worship come with a similar expectation that God will be made known in their deliberations, investigations, and discernment. The study of how God is made known is, of course, generally regarded as the field of theology, and it is hoped that students who find the living God in the pages of this study will pursue their enquiry through more conventional theological literature.

Why Study Ethics Through Worship?

But first we must confront the understandable reaction that may come from some quarters that to study the practice of worship is no way to explore the field of Christian ethics. What has the altar to do with the lecture hall? The connection of the two may seem incongruous to many, absurd to some. The simplest reason for this reaction is that the connection has not often been made. Its apparent novelty might seem to be its weakness. For those involved in pastoral ministry, the disconnection of the two is frequently experienced as a cause of great bewilderment. So often it appears that lay Christians have a thriving life of personal devotion, an active life within a worshiping community, and an engaged life fulfilling a range of professional and public roles in the workplace, neighborhood, and family: but comparatively seldom do lay Christians have an equally developed way of bringing these three parts of their discipleship together. Similarly, a great many theologians, at every level of seniority, have a corresponding range of involvements and commitments. But how often do the convictions and assumptions that shape one aspect of life genuinely interact with the key dynamics of another?