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Christian ethics : a historical introduction

Wogaman treats major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present
Print Book, English, ©1993
Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky., ©1993
History
xi, 340 pages ; 23 cm
9780664251635, 0664251633
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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 medieval 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?