Christian ethics Book

	Introduction
Pt. I	The Legacies of Christian Ethics	1
1	The Biblical Legacy of Christian Ethics	2
2	Philosophical Legacies	16
Pt. II	The Ethics of Early Christianity	23
3	The Formative Years	25
4	Seminal Thinkers and Transitions	37
5	The Moral Vision of Saint Augustine	51
Pt. III	Medieval Christianity	61
6	Monastic and Mystical Contributions	63
7	The Confessional	75
8	The Thomistic Synthesis	82
9	Late Medieval Forerunners	96
Pt. IV	The Era of Reformation and Enlightenment	108
10	The Reformers: Luther and Calvin	109
11	Catholic Humanism and Counter-Reformation	126
12	The Radical Reformation	138
Pt. V	Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century Rationalism and Evangelicalism	146
13	Rationalism and Revival in the Eighteenth Century	148
14	Nineteenth-Century Philosophical and Christian Ethics	161
15	Nineteenth-Century Slavery and Feminist Controversies	180
Pt. VI	Christian Ethics in the Twentieth Century	191
16	The Social Gospel Movement	194
17	The Social Encyclicals	209
18	Formative Christian Moral Thinkers	217
19	The Vatican II Watershed	237
20	Liberation Theology	248
21	Ecumenical Social Ethics	257
Pt. VII	Christian Ethics Toward the Third Millennium	269
22	Conflicting Tendencies	270
23	Can Christian Ethics Find a Creative Center?	277
	Notes	285
	For Further Reading	325
	Index	328