Christian ethics :a historical introduction /J. Philip Wogaman.

Book

Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Description

The legacies of Christian ethics -- The biblical legacy of Christian ethics -- Philosophical legacies -- The ethics of early Christianity -- The formative years -- Seminal thinkers and transitions -- The moral vision of Saint Augustine -- Medieval Christianity -- Monastic and mystical contributions -- The confessional -- The Thomistic synthesis -- Late medievcal forerunners -- The era of Reformation and Enlightenment -- The reformers : Luther and Calvin -- Catholic humanism and Counter-Reformation -- The radical Reformation -- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rationalism and evangelicalism -- Rationalism and revival in the eighteenth century -- Nineteenth-century philosophical and Christian ethics -- Nineteenth-century slavery and feminist controversies -- Christian ethics in the twentieth century -- The social gospel movement -- The social encyclicals -- Formative Christian moral thinkers -- The Vatican II watershed -- Liberation theology -- Ecumenical social ethics -- Christian ethics toward the third millennium -- Conflicting tendencies -- Can Christian ethics find a creative center? xi, 340 p. ;23 cm.

Book Details

Author

Wogaman, J. Philip.

Place Published

City

Louisville, Ky.

Date Published

circa 1993

Publication Subjects

Christian ethics--History. Christian ethics--Methodist authors.

Call No.

BJ 1201 .W64 1993

ISBN

0664251633 (alk. paper)

LCCN

93003259

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-327) and index.