Christian ethics: a historical introduction

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

Orthodox Christian ethics

Liberation theology

Ecumenical social ethics

Christian ethics in the third millennium. Changed realities

Unresolved issues

Concluding reflections.

pt. 1. The legacies of Christian ethics

The biblical legacy of Christian ethics

Philosophical legacies

pt. 2. The ethics of early Christianity

The formative years

Seminal thinkers and transitions

The moral vision of Saint Augustine

pt. 3. Medieval Christianity

Monastic and mystical contributions

The confessional

The Thomistic synthesis

Late medieval forerunners

pt. 4. The era of Reformation and Enlightenment

The reformers : Luther and Calvin

Catholic humanism and Counter-Reformation

The radical Reformation

pt. 5. 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

pt. 6. Christian ethics in the twentieth century

The social gospel movement

The social encyclicals

Formative Christian moral thinkers

The Vatican II watershed

Orthodox Christian ethics

Liberation theology

Ecumenical social ethics

pt. 7. Christian ethics in the third millennium

Changed realities

Unresolved issues

Concluding reflections.