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Following the same formula as other Cambridge Companions, this book is written by leading international experts in Christian ethics and is aimed at students on upper-level undergraduate courses, at teachers and at graduate students. It will be useful as well to ministers and other professionals within the church. Its eighteen chapters provide a thorough introduction to Christian ethics which is both authoritative and up-to-date. All contributors have been chosen because they are significant scholars with a proven track record of balanced, comprehensive and comprehensible writing. The Companion examines the scriptural bases of ethics, introduces a variety of approaches to ethics including those informed by considerations such as gender and by other faiths such as Judaism, and then discusses Christian ethics in the context of contemporary issues including war and the arms trade, social justice, ecology, economics, and medicine and genetics. The book offers a superb overview of its subject.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #204667 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 306 pages

Review
‘The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics successfully lives up to the considerable reputation established by the rest of the outstanding texts in this series … the organization of this Cambridge volume brilliantly lends itself to the classroom, moving gracefully from the theoretical, through the methodological, and ending with practical questions. This companion to Christian ethics should become the standards text for ethics courses taught at seminaries and in upper level philosophy courses that focus on religion and ethics. It should become a standard text for the serious study of Christian ethics.’ Religious Studies Review

Customer Reviews

An entrance into modern Christian Ethical thought
This is a well thought-out overview of Christian Ethics today. The articles were all well written,and the authors had obviously consulted with those writing related articles. Although obviously written for those with some theological background, the articles did not presuppose special background in Ethics. At 10 - 15 pages, the articles were short enough to read at one sitting, with enough detail to make them interesting, and lead me to want to learn more.

This book will not replace reading the ethical discussions in today's church, but it makes finding the way into those discussions much easier.