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List of contents
1. Introduction
Section One - Knowing What is Right: Noetic Aspects of Ethical Agency
2. The Command of God
A - the command of God in outline
B - the command of God and Scripture
3. The Discipline of Theological Ethics
A - inappropriate theological ethics
B - appropriate theological ethics
C - theological ethics and casuistry
4. The Practice of Theological Ethics
A - the practice of theological ethics
B - the use of Scripture in theological ethics
C - the role of the Church in theological ethics
D - the problems of theological ethics
Section Two - Doing What is Right: Ontic Aspects of Ethical Agency
5. The Ethical Agent
A - the ethical agent in relation to Jesus Christ
B - the ethical agent in distinction from Jesus Christ
C - critical analysis of the ethical agent
6. Human Action and Divine Action
A - the freedom of the ethical agent
B - the relationship between human action and divine action
C - a case study of divine action and human action
D - critical analysis of ethical action
7. The Way of Ethical Action
A - the content of conformity
B - the aspects of conformity
C - the actualism of conformity
Section Three - Achieving What is Right: Telic Aspects of Ethical Agency
8. The Telos of Ethical Action
A - conformity as participation
B - conformity as witness
C - conformity as glorification
9. Conclusion
About the author
Paul T Nimmo holds the King's Chair of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen, UK.
