Christian Social Teachings : A Reader in Christian Social Ethics from the Bible to the Present
, by Forell, George W.
- ISBN: 9780800698607 | 0800698606
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/1/2012
Jesus as an instigator of revolutionary change.
George W. Forell was professor emeritus or Protestant theology at the University of Iowa and author of The History of Christian Ethics. James M. Childs is senior research processor at Trinity Lutheran Seminary and author of several books, including Ethics in the Community of Promise (2006).
| A Thematic Organization of Sources | p. xii |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Biblical Influences | |
| Hebrew Bible | p. 2 |
| Exodus 20:1-17; 21:1-11, 22-25, 33-36; 22:21-27 | |
| Leviticus 25:8-9 | |
| Prophetic Accents: Amos 5:6-24, Isaiah 11:1-9 | |
| New Testament | p. 7 |
| Matthew 5 | |
| Luke 4:14-21 and Matthew 11:2-6 | |
| Luke 10:25-37 | |
| Luke 12:15-31 | |
| Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2:13-3:8 | |
| 1 John 4:7-21 and 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 | |
| For Further Reading | |
| The Early Church | |
| Apostolic Fathers | p. 18 |
| The Epistle of Barnabas XVII-XXI | |
| The First Apology of Justin Martyr 14-17, 27-29 | |
| Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book V, Chapter 24 | |
| Tertullian | p. 26 |
| Apology, Chapters 39-45 | |
| Spectacles, Chapters 8-10 | |
| The Alexandrian School | p. 34 |
| The Instructor, Book I, Chapter XIII | |
| The Rich Man's Salvation | |
| Origen: Against Celsus, Book VIII, 73-75 | |
| Chrysostom | p. 40 |
| Concerning the Statutes, Homily XIT, 9,12-15 | |
| Homilies on Matthew, XIX, 6.1 | |
| Augustine | p. 44 |
| Enchiridion, Chapters 9-11 | |
| Enchiridion, Chapters 9-11; 23-26 | |
| City of God XIV, 28; XIX, 17 | |
| Of the Morals of the Catholic Church, Chapters XV, XXIV, 434, XXVI, and XXVII | |
| A Good Marriage, Chapters 3, 6, 7, 10 | |
| Peace and Just War, City of God, Book XV, 4; XIX, 7 | |
| For Further Reading | |
| The Medieval Church | |
| Monasticism | p. 58 |
| The Rule of Saint Benedict | |
| The Rule of Saint Francis | |
| St. Francis's Canticle of the Sun | |
| The Mystics | p. 66 |
| Bernard of Clairvaux, On Love of God | |
| Meister Eckhart, The Talks of Instruction, Nos. 2, 4, 5, 7, 18 | |
| Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue or A Treatise of Divine Providence | |
| Thomas Aquinas | p. 76 |
| Summa Theologica, II/1, Question 90, Article 2 | |
| Summa Theologica, II/1, Question 91, Articles 1-4 | |
| Summa Theologica, II/1, Question 94, Article 2 | |
| Summa Theologica, II/2, Question 58, Articles 1, 11, 12 | |
| Summa Theologica, II/2, Question 60, Articles 5-6 | |
| Summa Theologica, II/2, Question 64, Articles 2-3 and Question 40, Article 1 | |
| Summa Theologica, II/2, Question 66, Articles 1-2 | |
| The Medieval Papacy | p. 99 |
| Pope Gregory VII excommunication decree 1076 | |
| Unam Sanctam 1302 | |
| For Further Reading | |
| The Reformation | |
| Martin Luther | p. 104 |
| Treatise on Christian Liberty, 1520 | |
| Temporal Authority: To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed, 1522 | |
| Against the Robbing arid Murdering Horde of Peasants, ca. 1525 | |
| John Calvin | p. 119 |
| Institutes, Book II, Chapter II, No. 1 | |
| Institutes, Book II, Chapter II, No. 13 | |
| Institutes, Book II, Chapter VIII, Nos. 39, 41, 45-46 | |
| Institutes, Book III, Chapter XXI, No. 7 | |
| Institutes, Book IV, Chapter XX, Nos. 1-3, 24, 31-32 | |
| The Anabaptists | p. 129 |
| The Schleitheim Confession of Faith | |
| Thomas Müntzer, Sermon to the Princes | |
| Menno Simons, Reply to False Accusations | |
| The Jesuit Legacy and Francisco De Suárez | p. 140 |
| Suárez, A Treatise on Laws and God the Lawgiver, Book III, Chapter II Suárez, Disputation XIII: On Charity, Chapter 1 | |
| For Further Reading | |
| Post-Reformation England and America | |
| The Puritans | p. 148 |
| An Agreement of the People | |
| Gerrard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform or True Magistracy Restored (1652) | |
| Roger Williams | p. 153 |
| The Bloody Tenent of Persecution (July 15, 1644) | |
| The Quakers | p. 159 |
| Rules of Discipline [Society of Friends] | |
| Rules of Discipline [Opposition to War] | |
| Rules of Discipline [Abolition of Slavery] | |
| For Further Reading | |
| Eighteenth-Century Voices | |
| Rationalism | p. 166 |
| John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity | |
| Joseph Butler, Upon the Love of Our Neighbor | |
| Pietism | p. 172 |
| Philip Jacob Spener, Pia Desideria | |
| August Hermann Francke, Scriptural Rules | |
| John Wesley | p. 181 |
| The Use of Money | |
| Thoughts upon Slavery | |
| Thoughts on the Present Scarcity of Provisions | |
| For Further Reading | |
| Nineteenth-Century Voices | |
| Friedrich Schleiermacher | p. 196 |
| On Christian Social Ethics | |
| Horace Bushnell | p. 199 |
| Politics tinder the Law of God | |
| Frederick Denison Maurice | p. 203 |
| The Kingdom of Christ | |
| A Bolitionists | p. 207 |
| Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?" | |
| Frederick Douglas, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" | |
| Albrecht Ritschl | p. 213 |
| Liberal Theology | |
| For Further Reading | |
| Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Catholic Social Teaching | |
| On Behalf of Workers: Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression | p. 218 |
| Leo III, Rerum Novarum, May 15, 1891 | |
| Pope Pius XI, Quadragesima anno, 1931 | |
| Pope John XXIII and Vatican II | p. 224 |
| John XXIII, Pacem in terris (1963) | |
| Vatican Council II, Gaudium et spes (1965) | |
| United States Catholic Bishops | p. 233 |
| The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response (1983) | |
| Economic Justice for All (1986) | |
| For Further Reading | |
| Early- to Mid-Twentieth-Century Voices | |
| The Social Gospel | p. 242 |
| Washington Gladden, Social Redemption | |
| Walter Rauschenbusch, A Theology for the Social Gospel | |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | p. 252 |
| An Interpretation of Christian Ethics | |
| Justice and Love | |
| Christian Faith and Natural Law | |
| Paul Tillich | p. 266 |
| "The Kingdom of God in History," Systematic Theology, Volume Three | |
| Karl Barth | p. 272 |
| "The Christian Community and the Civil Community," Community, State, and Church | |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer | p. 285 |
| "The Concrete Commandment and the Divine Mandates," Ethics Letters and Papers from Prison | |
| For Further Reading | |
| Twentieth-Century Feminist and Womanist Ethics | |
| Feminist Voices | p. 298 |
| Rosemary Radford Ruether, Sexism and God-Talk | |
| Lisa Sowle Cahill, "Feminism and Christian Ethics," Freeing Theology: The Essentials of Theology in Feminist Perspective | |
| Beverly Wildung Harrison, Making the Connections: Essays in Feminist | |
| Social Ethics | |
| Womanist Voices | p. 324 |
| Katie Geneva Cannon, Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community | |
| Jacquelyn Grant, White Women's Jesus and Black Woman's Christ: Feminist Christology and Womanist Response | |
| Delores S. Williams, "Womanist Theology: Black Women's Voice" | |
| For Further Reading | |
| Contemporary Issues: The Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present | |
| Justice and Liberation | p. 346 |
| Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail | |
| James H. Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation | |
| Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation Jon Sobrino, The Principle of Mercy: Taking the Crucified People from the Cross | |
| Human Sexuality | p. 377 |
| Charles Curran, "Catholic Social and Sexual Teaching: A Methodological Comparison" | |
| Christine Gudorf, "Life without Anchors: Sex, Exchange, and Human Rights in a Postmodern World" | |
| The Lambeth Conference 1998, Resolution 1.10 Human Sexuality | |
| World Council of Churches' contributions to the discussions on human sexuality: From Harare to Porto Alegre, Background Document, Geneva 2006 | |
| Margaret Farley, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics | |
| Environmental Ethics | p. 410 |
| Joseph Sittler, "Called to Unity" (1962) | |
| Larry L. Rasmussen, "Is Eco-Justice Central to Christian Faith?" Earth Community, Earth Ethics | |
| Sallie McFague, The Body of God: An Ecological Theology | |
| James Nash, Loving Nature: Ecological Integrity and Christian Responsibility | |
| Biomedical Ethics | p. 442 |
| Paul Ramsey, Fabricated Man | |
| Joseph Fletcher, Morals and Medicine | |
| Richard A. McCormick, How Brave a New World: Dilemmas in Bioethics | |
| James Gustafson, The Contributions of Theology to Medical Ethics | |
| Paul T. Jersild, "Theological and Moral Reflections on Stem Cell Research" | |
| Pacifism, Just War, and Terrorism | p. 475 |
| David A. Hoekema, "A Practical Christian Pacifism" | |
| Address of Pope John Paul II to the Diplomatic Corps, January 13, 2003 | |
| Jean Bethke Elshtain, Just War against Terror | |
| The Church in the World and the Ethics of Virtue | p. 491 |
| John Howard Yoder, The Priestly Kingdom: Social Ethics as Gospel | |
| Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic | |
| Jean Porter, The Recovery of Virtue: The Relevance of Aquinas for Christian Ethics | |
| Trinitarian Theology and Social Ethics | p. 509 |
| Jürgen Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom | |
| Catherine Mowry LaCugna, God for Us: The Trinity and Christian Life | |
| For Further Reading | |
| Bibliography of Original Sources | p. 523 |
| Index | p. 532 |
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