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Providing the level one student with all they will need to know to understand their course fully, the textbook covers the major areas of ethical theory and methodology that are key to the use of the Bible in Christian ethics, natural law, conscience, various philosophical approaches to ethics and the influence of liberation theologies.

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Publié par	Hymns Ancient & Modern
Date de parution	21 avril 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780334048022
Langue	English

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SCM STUDYGUIDE TO CHRISTIAN ETHICS
Neil Messer

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, SCM Press.
© Neil Messer 2006
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
978 0 334 02995 3
First published in 2006 by SCM Press
13–17 Long Lane
London EC1A 9PN
www.scm-canterburypress.co.uk
Reprint with corrections 2008
Third impression 2010
Printed and bound in Great Britain by
CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham SN14 6LH

Contents
List of Ethical Theory Topics
List of Practical Ethics Topics
Preface
1. Introduction: Deciding How to Decide
1. What is Christian Ethics?
2. What to Decide
3. How to Decide
4. The Person Who Decides, and What a Good Life Looks Like
5. What Makes It Christian Ethics?
6. Concluding Remarks
2. The Bible in Christian Ethics
1. Case Studies: Divorce and Remarriage: Jim and Helen; Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research
2. What Is the Bible and Why Is It Important?
3. How Should the Bible be Used in Christian Ethics?
4. The Case Studies Revisited: Divorce and Remarriage: Jim and Helen; Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research
3. Natural Law
1. Case Studies: Homosexuality: The Civil Partnership Act; The ‘War on Terror’
2. The Roots of the Natural Law Tradition
3. Thomas Aquinas and Natural Law
4. Natural Law Since Thomas Aquinas
5. The Case Studies Revisited: Homosexuality; War; Just War Theory; Pacifism
Appendix: Rights
4. Duty, Consequences and Christian Ethics
1. Case Study: Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill?
2. Absolute Duties?
3. Kant’s Theory of Ethics
4. Christian Deontology
5. Consequentialist Theories
6. Utilitarianism: Classical Utilitarianism; Contemporary Utilitarianism
7. Christians and Consequentialism
8. The Case Study Revisited: The Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia – Definitions and Distinctions; The Value of Human Life; Modern Challenges; Responses to the Challenges
5. Critical Voices: Science, Technology and Christian Ethics
1. Case Studies: Human Genetics, Evolution and Ethics; Genetically Modified Crops
2. Science, Technology and Christian Ethics
3. Does Science Undermine Christian Belief?
4. Does Evolutionary Biology Explain Away Morality?
5. Should Science Make Us Revise Our Moral Judgements?
6. Should We Try to Redesign Ourselves?
7. Should We Try to Redesign Nature?
6. Critical Voices: The ‘Recovery of Virtue’
1. Case Studies: Healthcare Rationing and Justice – ‘Child B’ and ‘Baby Ryan’; Drugs for Developing Countries
2. Healthcare, Justice and the Failure of the ‘Enlightenment Project’
3. A Brief History of Virtue: Classical Roots; Early Christian Thought; The Middle Ages and After
4. Theologians Among the Virtues
5. The Case Studies Revisited: Healthcare Rationing and Justice
7. Critical Voices: Liberation Theologies and Christian Ethics
1. Case Study: The Trade Justice Campaign
2. Starting with Experience
3. Latin American Liberation Theology: Distinctive Sources; A Distinctive Theological Method; A New Perspective; An Ultimate Standard
4. Black Theologies of Liberation
5. Other ‘Theologies from Below’
6. The Case Study Revisited: Theology, Economics and Trade Justice
8. Critical Voices: Feminist Theologies and Christian Ethics
1. Case Study: Abortion, Politics and the Churches
2. Feminist Theologies and Christian Ethics: The Liberal Paradigm; The Social Constructionist Paradigm; The Naturalist Paradigm
3. The Case Study Revisited: Abortion; The Moral Status, Interests and Rights of the Foetus; The Moral Status, Interests and Rights of the Mother
9. Christian Ethics: Pastoral and Public
1. Introduction
2. Christian Ethics and Pastoral Care: Non-directive Pastoral Care; Pastoral Care as Practical Moral Thinking; Pastoral Care as Building Communities of Character; Pastoral Care as Liberation
3. Christian Ethics and Public Policy: Seeking the Moral Common Ground; Seeking Wisdom; Turning the World Upside Down; A City Set on a Hill; Theological Fragments; Middle Axioms; The View from Below
10. Conclusion

List of Ethical Theory Topics
The Bible in Christian ethics: Chapter 2, § 2 and 3
Biology and Christian ethics: Chapter 5
Black theology: Chapter 7, § 4
Consequentialism: Chapter 4, §§ 5–7
Contextual theologies: Chapter 7, §§ 2–5; Chapter 8, § 2
Deontological ethics: Chapter 4, §§ 2–4
The distinctiveness of Christian ethics: Chapter 1, § 5
Evolution and Christian ethics: Chapter 5, §§ 1(first case study), §§ 3–5
Feminist theologies: Chapter 8, § 2
Kantian ethics: Chapter 4, § 3
Liberation theologies: Chapter 7, §§ 2–5
Natural law: Chapter 3, §§ 2–4
Pastoral care and Christian ethics: Chapter 9, § 2
Public policy and Christian ethics: Chapter 9, § 3
Rights: Chapter 3, Appendix
Science and Christian ethics : Chapter 5
The sources of Christian ethics: Chapter 1, § 3
Utilitarianism: Chapter 4, § 6
Virtue ethics: Chapter 6, §§ 2–4
Womanist theology: Chapter 8, § 2

List of Practical Ethics Topics
Abortion: Chapter 8, §§ 1 and 3
Divorce and remarriage: Chapter 2, § 1, first case study and § 4, first case study
Ecology and Christian ethics: Chapter 5, § 7
Economics and Christian ethics: Chapter 7, §§ 1 and 6
Euthanasia and assisted suicide: Chapter 4, §§ 1 and 8
Genetically modified crops: Chapter 5, § 1, second case study, and § 7
Healthcare rationing: Chapter 6, §§ 1 and 5
Homosexuality: Chapter 3, § 1, first case study, and § 5, first case study
Human cloning: Chapter 2, § 1, second case study, and § 4, second case study
Human genetics: Chapter 5, § 1, first case study, and § 6
Just war theory: Chapter 3, § 5, second case study
Pacifism: Chapter 3, § 5, second case study
Stem cell research: Chapter 2, § 1, second case study, and § 4, second case study
Trade justice: Chapter 7, §§ 1 and 6
War: Chapter 3, § 1, second case study, and § 5, second case study

Preface
This book has grown out of the introductory courses in Christian ethics that I have taught over a number of years to different student groups in different contexts. It could be likened to a map of the territory known as ‘Christian ethics’ – an analogy that comes naturally to me as, for almost as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by maps and can get almost as absorbed in a map as in a good book. If this book is a kind of map of the territory called ‘Christian ethics’, it is the sort of map you would open to give yourself a general overview of an area that was new and unfamiliar. It is intended to cover as much of the ground as possible, though, inevitably, I have had to be selective about what is included: some topics have been either omitted or dealt with more briefly than I would have wished. Also, I have included one or two topics (such as the relationship between the natural sciences and Christian ethics) that are quite often omitted from introductory treatments, but seem to me to be both important and interesting aspects of the subject. Because it is an introductory treatment, designed for those with little or no prior knowledge of the field, the amount of detail that can be included is limited, but each chapter has suggestions for further reading that will offer more detailed treatments of the areas covered.
As I have taught Christian ethics in recent years, I have become increasingly convinced that, in this subject, a sharp separation between ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ is both artificial and unhelpful. Accordingly, in this book I have tried to avoid such a separation: most chapters integrate a ‘theoretical’ topic with one or more issues in ‘practical’ ethics. I shall say more in Chapter 1 about how this is done. The attempt to integrate ‘theory’ with ‘practice’ could make the book slightly harder to navigate around than some, so, as well as the general list of contents, I have given alphabetical lists of both ‘theoretical’ and ‘practical’ topics covered in the book, showing where each can be found.
How might this book be used? Individual readers wishing to gain an initial overview of Christian ethics could simply read it from beginning to end. They might also find the case studies, questions and exercises included in each chapter helpful opportunities to reflect on particular issues and review what they have learned. The book could also be used as an introductory reference for investigating particular topics and the contents pages should facilitate this. The topics covered in each chapter are