The Blackwell companion to Christian ethics / / edited by Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

• Pubblicazione: Chichester ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (621 p.)
• Disciplina: 241
• Soggetto topico: Christian ethics; Public worship - Moral and ethical aspects
• Classificazione: REL067070
• Altri autori: HauerwasStanley <1940-> WellsSamuel <1965->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "Part I: Studying Ethics Through Worship""; ""CHAPTER 1 Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer""; ""Why Study Ethics Through Worship?""; ""How Does the Liturgy Inform and Shape the Christian Life?""; ""Worship as a Series of Practices""; ""A Story""; ""CHAPTER 2 The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It""; ""God""; ""The Gifts of God""; ""The Gift of the Church""; ""Ethics""; ""CHAPTER 3 Why Christian Ethics Was Invented"" ; ""CHAPTER 4 How the Church Managed Before There Was Ethics""""Part II: Meeting God and One Another""; ""CHAPTER 5 Gathering: Worship, Imagination, and Formation""; ""The Pervasiveness of Worship""; ""Learning to Worship""; ""The Ekklesia as Formative Gathering""; ""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER 6 Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation""; ""On Discovering Race: A Personal Story""; ""The Consolation of Philosophy""; ""Theology and Racial Reconciliation""; ""Christian Worship as a "Wild Space"""; ""On Being Greeted in the Name of the Trinity""; ""Beyond Modern Anthropology"" ; ""The Performance of a Christian Anthropology""""A Christian Ethics""; ""Beyond Docetism: On "Touching Color"""; ""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER 7 Naming the Risen Lord: Embodied Discipleship and Masculinity""; ""Greeting""; ""Gender""; ""Masculinity""; ""About a Man""; ""CHAPTER 8 Being Reconciled: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship""; ""A Reconciled and Reconciling People""; ""Who Needs to Repent and be Reconciled? Discovering Who We Are""; ""Eucharistic Reconciliation: Restoration and Transformation""; ""The Practice of Eucharistic Reconciliation: Punishment in Theological Perspective"" ; ""Acknowledgments""""CHAPTER 9 Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts""; ""Doxology: In Praise of Beauty?""; ""The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: The Ancient/Modern Quarrel""; ""Beauty and Imagination in the Christian Life: Beholding and Beholden to""; """Praise without Ceasing": A Diet of Doxology""; ""Conclusion: Living Beautifully""; ""CHAPTER 10 Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries""; ""Culture Industries as Industries""; ""Ways to Think about Media and Communications""; ""Media and Ecclesial Formation""; ""Worship as a Site for Christian Resistance and Formation?"" ; ""Conclusion""""CHAPTER 11 Praise: The Prophetic Public Presence of the Mentally Disabled""; ""Friday Night at the Pub""; ""Saturday Afternoon at the Pool""; ""The Church as the Practice Ground for Empathy""; ""Public Beggars and Dancers""; ""The Assault of the Prophetic Christ""; ""Worship and Annunciation""; ""Part III: Re-Encountering the Story""; ""CHAPTER 12 Reading the Scriptures: Rehearsing Identity, Practicing Character""; ""Reading Scripture Liturgically: A "Composite" Portrait""; ""Scripture Reading as Scriptural Reasoning: Exercises in the Grammar of Faith"" ; ""Scripture Reading as Conversion: Ethical Formation and Identity Constitution""
• Sommario/riassunto: "Featuring updates, revisions, and new essays from various scholars within the Christian tradition, The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, Second Edition reveals how Christian worship is the force that shapes the moral life of Christians. Features new essays on class, race, disability, gender, peace, and the virtues Includes a number of revised essays and a range of new authors The innovative and influential approach organizes ethical themes around the shape of Christian worship The original edition is the most successful to-date in the Companions to Religion series "--; "The second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics features a range of new topics, issues and authors within the fresh and imaginative approach to Christian ethics which made the first edition such a success. The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, 2nd edition is ecumenical in outlook, and encompasses chapters from leading commentators within the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, Mennonite and Pentecostal traditions. It is designed to be accessible to beginning students and upwards studying Christian ethics"--
• Titolo autorizzato: The Blackwell companion to Christian ethics
• ISBN: 9786613408501; 1-4443-9668-4; 1-4443-6174-0; 1-78268-324-0; 1-4443-9666-8; 1-283-40850-3; 1-4443-9667-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910877838603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to religion.