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Cahill addresses the ethics of sexuality, marriage, parenthood and family from a feminist Christian standpoint. She reaffirms the traditional unity of sex, love and parenthood, as a guiding framework. She develops New Testament models of community and of moral formation in a context of concern for the poor and marginalised.

This book is for students of theology, Christian ethics, and religious and gender studies; and everyone longing for the full acceptance of women and LGBTIQ people in the churches and beyond. It exposes the roots of prejudice against women and sexual minorities, and offers constructive proposals for gender justice.

Peter Sedgwick explores the relation of a theology of justice to that of human identity in the context of the market economy, and engages with critics of capitalism and the market. He recommends that the Churches remain part of the debate in reforming and humanizing the market economy.

Does the Bible have a central place, or any place, in Christian ethics today? Should it have? If it does have, what implications does this have for biblical interpretation, as well as for Christian ethics? These are some of the questions addressed in this book, which is the first comprehensive treatment of such concerns.

In the immediate future we are likely to witness significant developments in human genetic science. It is therefore of critical importance that Christian ethics engages with the genetics debate, since it affects not just the way we perceive ourselves and the natural world, but also has wider implications for our society. This book considers ethical issues arising out of specific practices in human genetics, including genetic screening, gene patenting, gene therapy, genetic counselling as well as feminist concerns. Genetics and Christian Ethics argues for a particular theo-ethical approach that derives from a modified version of virtue ethics, drawing particularly on a Thomistic understanding of the virtues, especially prudence or practical wisdom and justice. The book demonstrates that a theological voice is highly relevant to contested ethical debates about genetics.

This stimulating and wide-ranging book mounts a profound enquiry into some of the most pressing questions of our age, by examining the relationship between biological science and Christianity. The history of biological discovery is explored from the point of view of a leading philosopher and ethicist.

Current ethics is confronted by the drastic extension of human power through technological development. This radical extension of power demands a new paradigm of responsibility in ethics. By developing a coherent theory of responsibility, Schweiker shows the unique contribution of Christian faith to ethics in our time.

Jean Porter provides a highly sophisticated account of moral reasoning, developed out of the thought of Thomas Aquinas, which offers an alternative to modern moral theories, brings together rule-oriented and virtue-oriented approaches to moral judgement, and points towards a moral life founded on decency and justice.

Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterised by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity, so that its dismissal represents a social levelling that loses the depths that theology makes intelligible and religion makes possible. The Christian affirmation is that God is characterised by self-giving love (agape), then expected of Christians. Lacking this theological background, the focus on self-interest in sociobiology and economics, and on human realism in the political focus of John Rawls or the feminist sociability of Carol Gilligan, finds altruism naive or a dangerous distraction from real possibilities of mutual support. This book argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and with the divine transformation of human possibilities.

The first substantial study in Christian Ethics to explore the problem of religion, plurality and ethics. Ian Markham argues that plurality is better safeguarded by a theistic, rather than a secularist, foundation, and shows that the religious affirmation of diversity offers genuine political possibilities in our post-modern world.

Justice and Christian Ethics is a study in the meaning and foundations of justice in modern society. Written from a theological perspective, its focus is upon the interaction of religion and law in their common pursuit of justice.