List of Contributors x
Preface xiii
Part I Studying Ethics through Worship 1
1 Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells 3
2 The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells 13
3 Why Christian Ethics Was Invented
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells 28
4 How the Church Managed Before There Was Ethics
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells 39
Part II Meeting God and One Another 51
5 Gathering: Worship, Imagination, and Formation
Philip Kenneson 53
6 Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation
Emmanuel Katongole 68
7 Naming the Risen Lord: Embodied Discipleship and Masculinity
Amy Laura Hall 82
8 Being Reconciled: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship
John Berkman 95
9 Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts
Kevin J. Vanhoozer 110
10 Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries
Michael L. Budde 123
Part III Re-encountering the Story 139
11 Reading the Scriptures: Rehearsing Identity, Practicing Character
Jim Fodor 141
12 Listening: Authority and Obedience
Scott Bader-Saye 156
13 Proclaiming: Naming and Describing
Charles Pinches 169
14 Deliberating: Justice and Liberation
Daniel M. Bell, Jr 182
15 Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation
William T. Cavanaugh 196
16 Confessing the Faith: Reasoning in Tradition
Nicholas Adams 209
Part IV Being Embodied 223
17 Praying: Poverty
Kelly S. Johnson 225
18 Interceding: Giving Grief to Management
Michael Hanby 237
19 Being Baptized: Bodies and Abortion
Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt 250
20 Becoming One Body: Health Care and Cloning
M. Therese Lysaught 263
21 Becoming One Flesh: Marriage, Remarriage, and Sex
David Matzko McCarthy 276
22 Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust
Paul J. Wadell 289
Part V Re-enacting the Story 303
23 Offering: Treasuring the Creation
Ben Quash 305
24 Participating: Working toward Worship
R. R. Reno 319
25 Remembering: Offering our Gifts
D. Stephen Long and Tripp York 332
26 Invoking: Globalization and Power
Timothy Jarvis Gorringe 346
27 Breaking Bread: Peace and War
Gerald W. Schlabach 360
28 Receiving Communion: Euthanasia, Suicide, and Letting Die
Carole Bailey Stoneking 375
29 Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, and Genetically Modified Foods
Robert Song 388
30 Eating Together: Friendship and Homosexuality
Joel James Shuman 401
31 Being Silent: Time in the Spirit
Michael S. Northcott 414
32 Being Thankful: Parenting the Mentally Disabled
Hans S. Reinders 427
33 Washing Feet: Preparation for Service
Mark Thiessen Nation 441
Part VI Being Commissioned 453
34 Being Blessed: Wealth, Property, and Theft
Stephen Fowl 455
35 Bearing Fruit: Conception, Children, and the Family
Joseph L. Mangina 468
36 Being Sent: Witness
Michael G. Cartwright 481
Afterword
Rowan Williams 495
Index 499