Christian Ethics, Second Edition

A Historical Introduction

J. Philip Wogaman

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9781611642919
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

This updated survey of Christian ethics addresses major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present. A broad range of topics is discussed, including the biblical and philosophical legacies of Christian ethics and ethics through the early, medieval, Reformation, Enlightenment, and modern eras. This new edition contains more extensive discussions of ethics in the twentieth century, including Vatican II, ecumenical social ethics, and Orthodox Christian ethics. A new section, "Toward the Third Millennium, " looks at the issues we will face in the coming decades, including medical, scientific, and political dilemmas, and issues of terrorism, war, and peace.

Index

abolition movement, 148, 192, 193, 194–95, 197, 198. See also slavery

abortion, 230, 249, 266, 269, 322, 328, 329, 330n20

Abraham, 5, 14, 178

act agapism, 245

Acts, Book of

on Paul’s Mars Hill address, 6

on Paul’s speech in Athenian Areopagus, 23

sharing of material resources in, 15, 31, 66

Adam and Eve, 55, 71, 139

Addams, Jane, 208

Adrianople, battle of, 63

adultery

Didache on, 32

Pius XI on, 230

Roman law on, 49n40

Tertullian on, 79

See also sexual ethics

aesthetic self, 178, 179

Afghanistan, 309, 331

African Methodist Episcopal Church, 196

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 196

Against Celsus (Origen), 44–45

Against Faustus (Augustine), 59–60

Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants (Luther), 120

agapē, 245, 247, 277. See also love

Age of Reason. See eighteenth-century rationalism and revival

“Ain’t I a Woman?” (Truth), 201

Alaric, 53–54, 56, 63

Albania, 280n41 Alexandrians, 40–45, 158, 317

al-Qaeda, 310

Ambrose of Milan, 51–52

American Anti-Slavery Society, 198

American Civil War, 156, 197, 207–8

American colonies, 148, 153, 155, 156, 166, 167–69

American Revolution, 156, 166

Amish community, 257n80, 319

Amos, 6, 7, 8, 14, 42

Amsterdam Assembly (1948), 297–98, 304

Anabaptists, 130, 145–47, 319

The Analogy of Religion (Butler), 158

anarchism, 187, 219

Anastasios, Archbishop of Tirana, 279–80

anchorites, 65, 65n1, 66, 67, 69

Anthony, Susan B., 198

Anthony of Egypt, 65

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