Readings in Christian Ethics: A Historical Sourcebook

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ISBN: 9780664255749 | 0664255744
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Copyright: 4/1/1996

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Readings in Christian Ethicspresents 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.

Introduction
Clement's First Letter	p. 4
Letter to Polycarp	p. 8
Letter to the Philippians	p. 9
The Didache	p. 13
Clement's Second Letter	p. 15
Epistle to Diognetus	p. 16
First Apology	p. 20
A Plea Regarding Christians	p. 24
Apology	p. 27
Stromata	p. 32
Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?	p. 33
The Instructor	p. 37
Against Celsus	p. 39
The Divine Institutes	p. 44
Letters to Priests	p. 48
Morals of the Catholic Church	p. 51
The City of God	p. 53
Against the Manichaeans	p. 61
The Rule of St. Benedict	p. 67
The Visions	p. 72
On Loving God	p. 73
The Dialogue	p. 77
The Penitential of Cummean	p. 83
Summa Theologica	p. 90
Summa Contra Gentiles	p. 100
Defensor Pacis	p. 106
The Church	p. 113
Showings	p. 117
Concerning Christian Liberty	p. 123
On Temporal Authority	p. 128
Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants	p. 132
On the Freedom of the Will	p. 133
Sermon before the Princes	p. 139
The Schleitheim Confession of Faith	p. 141
The Institutes of the Christian Religion	p. 144
The Interior Castle	p. 155
A Work on the Three Theological Virtues	p. 157
Fruits of Solitude	p. 160
The Putney Debates	p. 164
The Communism of the "Diggers"	p. 166
The Reasonableness of Christianity	p. 172
Upon the Love of Our Neighbour	p. 173
A Plain Account of Christian Perfection	p. 175
The Use of Money	p. 178
Thoughts on the Present Scarcity of Provisions	p. 181
Thoughts upon Slavery	p. 184
Introduction to Christian Ethics	p. 188
The Kingdom of Christ	p. 194
The Kingdom of Christ is within You	p. 197
Syllabus of Errors	p. 201
Appeal to the coloured Citizens of the World	p. 203
Life and Writings	p. 207
Lectures on Revivals of Religion	p. 211
The Supremacy of the Divine Law	p. 213
Slavery: A Sin against God	p. 215
Declaration of Sentiments	p. 218
Not Christianity, but Priestcraft	p. 221
Ain't I a Woman?	p. 222
Woman in the Pulpit	p. 224
The Woman's Bible	p. 227
Christianity and the Social Crisis	p. 234
Christianizing the Social Order	p. 239
A Theology for the Social Gospel	p. 242
Women Ministers	p. 245
The Catholic Worker	p. 247
The Doctrine of Creation	p. 249
The Cost of Discipleship	p. 259
Ethics	p. 261
Love, Power, and Justice	p. 266
The Nature and Destiny of Man	p. 268
Rerum Novarum	p. 281
Quadragesimo Anno	p. 286
Pacem in Terris	p. 288
Guadium et Spes	p. 291
Veritatis Splendor	p. 307
The Oxford Conference	p. 311
World Council of Churches	p. 315
A Theology of Liberation	p. 341
Letter from Birmingham City Jail	p. 345
A Black Theology of Liberation	p. 358
Sexism and God-Talk	p. 362
Aspects of Christian Social Ethics	p. 369
Nonresistance and the Aeons	p. 373
The Law of Christ	p. 377
Acknowledgments	p. 383
Index of Subjects	p. 385
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