Contributor
Clark, David K.
Imprint:Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Books, c1994-c1996.
Description2 v. ; 23 cm.
Note:v. 1. Theory and method -- v. 2. Issues and applications.
Note:Vol. 1: THEORY AND METHOD: PART 1. ESTABLISHING MORAL NORMS: 1. THE NATURE OF ETHICS: Moral relativism / J.P. Moreland -- The kingdom of God / C. Stephen Layman -- The nature of Christian morality / Oliver Barclay -- In search of "good positive reasons" for an ethics of divine commands: a catalogue of arguments / Janine Marie Idziak -- 2. GROUNDING MORAL NORMS: The natural ethic / Oliver O'Donovan -- Doctrine and ethics / Alister E. McGrath -- The reconsitution of authority / J.I. Packer -- The New Testament and ethics: communities of social change / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- PART 2. APPLYING MORAL NORMS: 3. MORAL DILEMMAS: Ethical choices: a case for non-conflicting absolutism / Robert V. Rakestraw -- The borderline situation of extreme conflict / Helmut Thielicke -- Graded absolutism / Norman L. Geisler -- 4. MORAL SITUATIONS AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS: ituations and principles / J.I. Packer -- Evangelical contextualism / Donald G. Bloesch -- Receptor-oriented ethics in cross-cultural intervention / Charles H. Kraft -- PART 3. INTERPRETING THE BIBLE ETHICALLY: 5. THE USE OF THE BIBLE IN ETHICAL JUDGMENTS: The word of God and Christian ethics / John Frame -- Four ways of using the New Testament / Richard N. Longenecker -- How can Christians derive principles from the specific commands of the law? / Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. -- Distinguishing culturally relative from normative teachings / Gordon D. Fee, Douglas Stuart -- 6. LOVE AND JUSTICE: Love and society: God's justice and ours / Stephen Charles Mott -- How to seek justice in a world of conflicts / Lewis B. Smedes -- Love, power, and justice / Paul B. Henry -- PART 4. DEVELOPING THE MORAL SELF: 7. VIRTUE AND CHARACTER: Virtue / Stanley Hauerwas -- Christian ethics and the ethics of virtue / Stephen S. Bilynskyj -- The virtues in a professional setting / William F. May -- 8. THE PROCESS OF DECISION-MAKING: Ethics: how to do it / Daniel C Maguire -- Towards a theory of making ethical judgments / H.E. Tödt -- A Kierkegaardian approach to moral philosophy: the process of decision-making / Virginia L. Warren.
Note:Vol. 2. ISSUES AND APPLICATIONS: PART 1. BEGINNING AND ENDING LIFE: 1. ABORTION: Reproductive choice: basic to justice for women / irginia Ramey Mollenkott -- Abortion and the mosaic law / Jack W. Cottrell -- The right to life: three theories / Robert N. Wennberg -- When does a person begin? / Robert E. Joyce -- 2. REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND GENETICS: Ethical implications of in vitro fertilization / Janet Dickey McDowell -- Technology and pregnancy enhancement / Stanley J. Grenz -- Genetics and human malleability / W. French Anderson -- 3. EUTHANASIA: James Rachels and the acive euthanasia debate / J.P. Moreland -- On removing food and water: against the stream / Gilbert Meilaender -- The persistent vegetative state and the withdawal of nutrition and hydration / Robert V. Rakestraw -- PART 2. HUMAN SEXUALITY: 4. SEXUALITY, MARRIAGE, AND SINGLENESS: Marriage and singleness in Paul and today / David Wenham -- Appropriate vulnerability: a sexual ethic for singles / Karen Lebacqz -- Sexuality and singleness / Richard J. Foster -- The purpose of sex: toward a theological understanding of human sexuality / Stanley J. Grenz -- 5. HOMOSEXUALITY: Homosexuality: an issue for the church / James B. Nelson -- Homosexuality: the relevance of the Bible / David F. Wright -- The loving opposition / Stanton L. Jones -- AIDS: an evangelical perspective / Ronald J. Sider -- 6. DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE: Biblical teaching on divorce and remarriage / Charles C. Ryrie -- Final words / Craig S. Keener -- The husband of one wife / Robert L. Saucy -- PART 3. CLASS RELATIONSHIPS: 7. RACE RELATIONS: The prolife credibility gap / Spencer Perkins -- The racial issue in Biblical perspective / Everett Tilson -- Where are my ambassadors of reconciliation? / Raleigh Washington, Glen Kehrein -- 8. GENDER ISSUES: Christian maturity in light of feminist theory / Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen -- Is the Bible sexist? beyond feminism and patriarchalism / Donald G. Bloesch -- Women in the pastoral office / Thomas C. Oden -- Man and woman in Christ / Stephen B. Clark -- PART 4. STEWARDSHIP OF CREATION: 9. WEALTH AND ECONOMICS: Does capitalism pass the moral test? / Ronald H. Nash -- Who should set social priorities? / J. Philip Wogaman -- Structural evil and world hunger / Ronald J. Sider -- 10. CARE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: Managing the resources of the earth / E. Clavin Beisner -- Christianity and the environment: escapist mysticism or responsible stewardship / R.J. Berry -- "A handful of mud": a personal history of my love for the soil / Paul W. Brand -- PART 5. LAW AND GOVERNMENT: 11. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: Civil disobedience as subordinaion / Stephen Charles Mott -- The Christian and civil disobedience / Charles C. Ryrie -- Biblical submissionism: disobedience to government is sometimes right / Normal L. Geisler -- "Resuce those being led away to death" / John Piper -- 12. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: The sanctity of life / John Murray -- Contemporary capital punishment: biblical difficulties with the biblically permissible / Eric E. Hobbs, Walter C. Hobbs -- Noah's covenant and the purpose of punishment / John Howard Yoder -- The collapse of the case against capital punishment / Ernest Van den Haag -- 13. PEACE AND WAR: Can a Christian go to war? / George W. Knight III -- The just war revisited / Jerram Barrs -- Jesus and violence: some critical objections / Ronald J. Sider, Richard K. Taylor -- A practical Christian pacifism / David A. Hoekema.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
