Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors xi
Preface xiv
Part I Studying Ethics Through Worship 1
1 Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer 3Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells
2 The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It 13Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells
3 Why Christian Ethics Was Invented 28Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells
4 How the Church Managed Before There Was Ethics 39Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells
Part II Meeting God and One Another 53
5 Gathering: Worship, Imagination, and Formation 55
- Philip Kenneson
6 Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation 70Emmanuel Katongole
7 Naming the Risen Lord: Embodied Discipleship and Masculinity 84Amy Laura Hall
8 Being Reconciled: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship 97John Berkman
9 Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts 112Kevin J. Vanhoozer
10 Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries 124Michael L. Budde
11 Praise: The Prophetic Public Presence of the Mentally Disabled 139Brian Brock
Part III Re-Encountering the Story 153
12 Reading the Scriptures: Rehearsing Identity, Practicing Character 155Jim Fodor
13 Listening: Authority and Obedience 170Scott Bader-Saye
14 Proclaiming: Naming and Describing 184Charles Pinches
15 Deliberating: Justice and Liberation 197Daniel M. Bell
16 Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation 211William T. Cavanaugh
17 Confessing the Faith: Reasoning in Tradition 224Nicholas Adams
Part IV Being Embodied 237
18 Interceding: Poverty and Prayer 239Kelly S. Johnson
19 Interceding: Giving Grief to Management 251Michael Hanby
20 Interceding: Standing, Kneeling, and Gender 264Lauren F. Winner
21 Being Baptized: Race 277Willie Jennings
22 Being Baptized: Bodies and Abortion 290Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt
23 Becoming One Body: Health Care and Cloning 303M. Therese Lysaught
24 Becoming One Flesh: Marriage, Remarriage, and Sex 316David Matzko McCarthy
25 Sharing Peace: Class, Hierarchy, and Christian Social Order 329Luke Bretherton
26 Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust 344Paul J. Wadell
Part V Re-Enacting the Story 357
27 Offering: Treasuring the Creation 359Ben Quash
28 Participating: Working Toward Worship 374R. R. Reno
29 Remembering: Offering Our Gifts 387D. Stephen Long and Tripp York
30 Invoking: Globalization and Power 401Timothy Jarvis Gorringe
31 Breaking Bread: Peace and War 415Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells
32 Receiving Communion: Euthanasia, Suicide, and Letting Die 427Kathryn Greene-McCreight
33 Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, and Genetically Modifi ed Foods 440Robert Song
34 Eating Together: Friendship and Homosexuality 453Joel James Shuman
35 Being Silent: Time in the Spirit 466Michael S. Northcott
36 Footwashing: Preparation for Christian Life 479Mark Thiessen Nation
Part VI Being Commissioned 491
37 Being Blessed: Wealth, Property, and Theft 493Stephen Fowl
38 Bearing Fruit: Conception, Children, and the Family 506Joseph L. Mangina
39 Being Sent: Witness 519Michael G. Cartwright
Afterword 533
40 The Virtue of the Liturgy 535Jennifer Herdt
41 Afterword 547Rowan Williams
Index 551