Readings in Christian Ethics: A Historical SourcebookJ. Philip Wogaman, Douglas M. Strong Readings in Christian Ethics presents in one volume the most consequential ethical writings from the earliest days of Christianity through the late twentieth century. Introductory material for each selection is provided to help set each piece in its proper historical and social context. |
Contents
Epistle to Diognetus | 3 |
Tertullian Apology | 9 |
Origen Against Celsus | 39 |
Ambrose Letters to Priests | 48 |
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY | 65 |
Hildegard of Bingen The Visions | 72 |
Catherine of Siena The Dialogue | 83 |
Summa Theologica | 89 |
A Sin against God | 215 |
The Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments | 218 |
Lucretia Mott Not Christianity but Priestcraft | 221 |
Sojourner Truth Aint I a Woman? | 223 |
Frances E Willard Woman in the Pulpit | 224 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton The Womans Bible | 227 |
CHRISTIAN ETHICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | 231 |
Walter Rauschenbusch | 234 |
Martin Luther | 123 |
On Temporal Authority | 128 |
Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants | 132 |
Desiderius Erasmus On the Freedom of the Will | 133 |
Thomas Müntzer Sermon before the Princes | 139 |
The Schleitheim Confession of Faith | 141 |
John Calvin The Institutes of the Christian Religion | 144 |
Teresa of Ávila The Interior Castle | 155 |
Francisco de Suárez A Work on the Three Theological Virtues | 157 |
William Penn Fruits of Solitude | 160 |
73 | 161 |
The Levellers The Putney Debates | 164 |
Gerrard Winstanley The Communism of the Diggers | 166 |
CHRISTIAN ETHICS IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES | 169 |
John Locke The Reasonableness of Christianity | 172 |
Joseph Butler Upon the Love of Our Neighbour | 173 |
John Wesley | 175 |
The Use of Money | 178 |
Thoughts on the Present Scarcity of Provisions | 181 |
Thoughts upon Slavery | 184 |
65 | 187 |
Friedrich Schleiermacher Introduction to Christian Ethics | 188 |
F D Maurice The Kingdom of Christ | 194 |
Leo Tolstoy The Kingdom of Christ is within You | 197 |
Pope Pius IX Syllabus of Errors | 201 |
David Walker Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World | 203 |
Frederick Douglass Life and Writings | 207 |
Charles Grandison Finney Lectures on Revivals of Religion | 211 |
Luther Lee | 213 |
Christianizing the Social Order | 239 |
A Theology for the Social Gospel | 242 |
Dorothy Day The Catholic Worker | 247 |
Karl Barth The Doctrine of Creation | 249 |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Cost of Discipleship | 259 |
Ethics | 261 |
Paul Tillich Love Power and Justice | 266 |
67 | 268 |
Pope Leo XIII Rerum Novarum | 281 |
Pope Pius XI Quadragesimo Anno | 286 |
5287 | 287 |
Pope John XXIII Pacem in Terris | 288 |
Vatican II Guadium et Spes | 291 |
83 | 303 |
Pope John Paul II Veritatis Splendor | 307 |
The Oxford Conference | 311 |
World Council of Churches | 315 |
Gustavo Gutiérrez A Theology of Liberation | 341 |
Martin Luther King Jr Letter from Birmingham City Jail | 345 |
Thomas Aquinas | 349 |
James H Cone A Black Theology of Liberation | 358 |
Rosemary Radford Ruether Sexism and GodTalk | 362 |
Carl F H Henry Aspects of Christian Social Ethics | 369 |
John Howard Yoder Nonresistance and the Aeons | 373 |
Bernard Häring The Law of Christ | 377 |
Acknowledgments | 383 |
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