Christian ethics : a historical introduction /
J. Philip Wogaman.
- Second edition.
- xv, 376 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-343) and index.
I. The Legacies of Christian Ethics : -- 1. The biblical legacy of Christian ethics -- 2. Philosophical legacies -- II. The Ethics of Early Christianity : -- 3. The formative years -- 4. Seminal thinkers and transitions -- 5. The moral vision of Saint Augustine -- III. Medieval Christianity : -- 6. Monastic and mystical contributions -- 7. The confessional -- 8. The Thomistic synthesis -- 9. Late medieval forerunners -- IV. The era of Reformation and Enlightenment : -- 10. The Reformers : Luther and Calvin -- 11. Catholic humanism and Counter-Reformation -- 12. The radical Reformation -- V. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Rationalism and Evangelicalism : -- 13. Rationalism and revival in the eighteenth century -- 14. Nineteenth-century philosophical and Christian ethics -- 15. Nineteenth-century slavery and feminist controversies -- VI. Christian Ethics in the Twentieth Century : -- 16. The social gospel movement -- 17. The social encyclicals -- 18. Formative Christian moral thinkers -- 19. The Vatican II watershed -- 20. Orthodox Christian ethics -- 21. Liberation theology -- 22. Ecumenical social ethics -- VII. Christian Ethics in the Third Millennium : -- 23. Changed realities -- 24. Unresolved issues -- 25. Concluding reflections