Charts of Christian Ethics

In the twenty-first century, Christian individuals and institutions routinely face ethical choices not imagined fifty years ago, with little ethical mooring in the surrounding culture to guide us. Thus, Christian ethics is an important field of study for the student, pastor, or concerned layperson. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most complicated of all the Christian academic disciplines, entailing numerous approaches and having roots in both philosophy and theology. Charts of Christian Ethics provides a wealth of valuable information, laid out in an accessible visual format, to help the student of ethics navigate and comprehend this complex field of study. It provides an outline for Christian ethics, explaining some of the major ideas and approaches. It is divided into five major sections: * Philosophical Foundations of Ethics (including logic, metaphysics, and epistemology) * Approaches to Ethics (metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics) * Biblical Foundations of Christian Ethics (hermeneutics, ethics in the Old Testament, and ethics in the New Testament) * Theological Foundations of Christian Ethics (including God, creation, man, and the church) * History of Ethics (including the premodern, modern, and postmodern eras) Containing more than 100 charts, this volume is a useful tool for classroom use, individual study, and as a handy reference.

List of contents

Contents
Part 1: Philosophical Foundations of Ethics
The Elements of Philosophy
1. Philosophy
Logic
2. Logic
Metaphysics
3. Metaphysics
4. Ontology
5. Cosmology
6. Theology/Philosophy of Religion
7. Theories of Truth
Epistemology
8. Epistemology
9. David Hume (1711 – 76)
10. Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)
Axiology
11. Value Theory
12. Ethics
13. Aesthetics (1)
14. Aesthetics (2): Art
Philosophies
15. Major Movements in Analytic Philosophy
16. Philosophy of Language
17. Philosophy of Science
18. Philosophy of Mind
19. American Pragmatism
20. Existentialism
21. The Continental Philosophers
22. Structuralism and Poststructuralism
Premodernity, Modernity, and Postmodernity
23. Premodernity (Before 1600)
24. Modernity (1): (1600 – 1950)
25. Modernity (2): British Empiricists and Analytic Philosophers
26. Modernity (3): Continental Rationalists/Continental Philosophers
27. Postmodernity (1950 – Present)
Part 2: Approaches to Ethics
Metaethics
28. Metaethics
29. The Fact/Value Dichotomy
30. Metaphysics of Morals
31. Moral Epistemology
32. Moral Psychology (1)
33. Moral Psychology (2): Moral Motivation
34. Internalist Moral Development (Cognitivism)
35. Externalist Moral Development (Noncognitivism)
Normative Ethics
36. Normative Ethics
37. Virtue Ethics
38. Aristotelian (Classical) Virtue Ethics
39. Augustinian Virtue Ethics
40. Linguistic Virtue Ethics
41. Deontology
42. Divine Command Theory (Theological Voluntarism)
43. Kantian Deontology
44. Deontological Intuitionism
45. Graded Absolutism (Hierarchicalism)
46. Act Utilitarianism
47. Rule Utilitarianism
48. Contractarianism
49. Contractualism
Applied Ethics
50. Political Philosophy
51. Philosophy of Law
52. Economics
53. Adam Smith
54. Marxism
55. Business Ethics
56. Bioethics
Part 3: Biblical Foundations of Christian
Ethics
Hermeneutics
57. Biblical Hermeneutics: Assumptions
58. Premodern Hermeneutics: Old Testament
59. Premodern Biblical Hermeneutics: Assumptions
60. Modern Biblical Hermeneutics: Assumptions and Method
61. Postmodern Biblical Hermeneutics
62. Key Words for Biblical Ethics
63. Presuppositions of Christian
Biblical Ethics
Old Testament
64. The Old Testament and Creation Ethics
65. Creation Ethics and Cosmic Order
66. Creation Ethics and the Ten Commandments
67. Ethics in Jewish Apocalyptic Thought
New Testament
68. The New Testament and Creation Ethics
69. The Sermon on the Mount
70. Blessedness (Happiness and Well-Being)
71. Righteousness
in Jesus Christ
72. Jesus Christ and the Jubilee
Part 4: Theological Foundations of Christian
Ethics
God
73. Doctrine of God
74. Doctrine of God: The Creeds
Creation
75. Creation
76. Augustine’s Hierarchy of Thought
Man
77. Doctrine of Man
78. Implications of the Image of God: Issues of Life and Death
79. Views of the Conscience
80. Eschatology (Three Views)
81. Soteriology
82. Divinization
83. The Work of the Holy Spirit
84. Spiritual Warfare
85. Marriage and Family
Church
86. The Church
87. Types of Churches
State and Church
88. The State
89. Christ and Culture
90. The Church and the World
91. Christian
Decision Making
Part 5: History of Ethics
Historical Overview
92. Overview of Philosophical Worldviews
93. Overview of Philosophers and Ethicists
94. Diagrammatic Overview of Major Philosophies
95. Diagrammatic Overview of Philosophers
The Premodern Era
96. Classical Period
97. Medieval Period
98. Reformation Period
The Modern Era
99. British Empiricists
100. Analytic Philosophers
101. Continental Rationalists
102. Continental Philosophers
103. Theological Liberalism
104. Neo-orthodox Thinkers
Postmodern Era
105. Contemporary Christian
Ethicists
106. Socio-Critical Approaches to Ethics

About the author

Craig Vincent Mitchell holds a PhD in Christian ethics and philosophy of religion. He is assistant professor of Christian ethics at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and a research fellow with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Previously, he has served as an adjunct professor of philosophy and ethics at Tarrant County and Weatherford Colleges.

Summary

This book provides an outline for Christian ethics and is designed to graphically explain some of the major ideas in and various approaches to this area of study.

Product details

• Authors: Craig Vincent Mitchell
• Publisher: Harper Collins (US)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2006
• EAN: 9780310254522
• ISBN: 978-0-310-25452-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 219 mm x 279 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 407 g
• Series: Zondervan Charts S.; ZondervanCharts; ZondervanCharts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, RELIGION / Biblical Reference / Dictionaries & Encyclopedias, TOPICAL / Christian Interest, christian;philosophy;ethic