The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics

THE EDITORS STANLEY HAUERWAS is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. His numerous books include The Peaceable Kingdom (2003) and Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir (2010). SAMUEL WELLS is Dean of Duke University Chapel and Research Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke Divinity School. His books include Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics (2004), God's Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics (2006), Power and Passion: Six Characters in Search of Resurrection (2007), Speaking the Truth (2008), and, with Ben Quash, Introducing Christian Ethics (2010).

Notes on Contributors xi

Preface xiv

Part I Studying Ethics Through Worship 1

1 Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer 3
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

2 The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It 13
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

3 Why Christian Ethics Was Invented 28
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

4 How the Church Managed Before There Was Ethics 39
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

Part II Meeting God and One Another 53

5 Gathering: Worship, Imagination, and Formation 55



Philip Kenneson

6 Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation 70
Emmanuel Katongole

7 Naming the Risen Lord: Embodied Discipleship and Masculinity 84
Amy Laura Hall

8 Being Reconciled: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship 97
John Berkman

9 Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts 112
Kevin J. Vanhoozer

10 Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries 124
Michael L. Budde

11 Praise: The Prophetic Public Presence of the Mentally Disabled 139
Brian Brock

Part III Re-Encountering the Story 153

12 Reading the Scriptures: Rehearsing Identity, Practicing Character 155
Jim Fodor

13 Listening: Authority and Obedience 170
Scott Bader-Saye

14 Proclaiming: Naming and Describing 184
Charles Pinches

15 Deliberating: Justice and Liberation 197
Daniel M. Bell

16 Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation 211
William T. Cavanaugh

17 Confessing the Faith: Reasoning in Tradition 224
Nicholas Adams

Part IV Being Embodied 237

18 Interceding: Poverty and Prayer 239
Kelly S. Johnson

19 Interceding: Giving Grief to Management 251
Michael Hanby

20 Interceding: Standing, Kneeling, and Gender 264
Lauren F. Winner

21 Being Baptized: Race 277
Willie Jennings

22 Being Baptized: Bodies and Abortion 290
Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt

23 Becoming One Body: Health Care and Cloning 303
M. Therese Lysaught

24 Becoming One Flesh: Marriage, Remarriage, and Sex 316
David Matzko McCarthy

25 Sharing Peace: Class, Hierarchy, and Christian Social Order 329
Luke Bretherton

26 Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust 344
Paul J. Wadell

Part V Re-Enacting the Story 357

27 Offering: Treasuring the Creation 359
Ben Quash

28 Participating: Working Toward Worship 374
R. R. Reno

29 Remembering: Offering Our Gifts 387
D. Stephen Long and Tripp York

30 Invoking: Globalization and Power 401
Timothy Jarvis Gorringe

31 Breaking Bread: Peace and War 415
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

32 Receiving Communion: Euthanasia, Suicide, and Letting Die 427
Kathryn Greene-McCreight

33 Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, and Genetically Modifi ed Foods 440
Robert Song

34 Eating Together: Friendship and Homosexuality 453
Joel James Shuman

35 Being Silent: Time in the Spirit 466
Michael S. Northcott

36 Footwashing: Preparation for Christian Life 479
Mark Thiessen Nation

Part VI Being Commissioned 491

37 Being Blessed: Wealth, Property, and Theft 493
Stephen Fowl

38 Bearing Fruit: Conception, Children, and the Family 506
Joseph L. Mangina

39 Being Sent: Witness 519
Michael G. Cartwright

Afterword 533

40 The Virtue of the Liturgy 535
Jennifer Herdt

41 Afterword 547
Rowan Williams

Index 551