The Blackwell companion to Christian ethics

Christian ethics as informed prayer ; The gift of the church and the gifts God gives it ; Why Christian ethics was invented ; How the church managed before there was ethics / Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

Gathering : worship, imagination, and formation / Philip Kenneson

Greeting : beyond racial reconciliation / Emmanuel Katongole

Naming the Risen Lord : embodied discipleship and masculinity / Amy Laura Hall

Being reconciled : penitence, punishment, and worship / John Berkman

Praising in song : beauty and the arts / Kevin J. Vanhoozer

Collecting praise : global culture industries / Michael L. Budde

Praise : the prophetic public presence of the mentally disabled / Brian Brock

Reading the Scriptures : rehearsing identity, practicing character / Jim Fodor

Listening : authority and obedience / Scott Bader-Saye

Proclaiming : naming and describing / Charles Pinches

Deliberating : justice and liberation / Daniel M. Bell

Discerning : politics and reconciliation / William T. Cavanaugh

Confessing the faith : reasoning in tradition / Nicholas Adams

Interceding : poverty and prayer / Kelly S. Johnson

Interceding : giving grief to management / Michael Hanby

Interceding : standing, kneeling, and gender / Lauren F. Winner

Being baptized : race / Willie Jennings

Being baptized : bodies and abortion / Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt

Becoming one body : health care and cloning / M. Therese Lysaught

Becoming one flesh : marriage, remarriage, and sex / David Matzko McCarthy

Sharing peace : class, hierarchy, and Christian social order / Luke Bretherton

Sharing peace : discipline and trust / Paul J. Wadell

Offering : treasuring the creation / Ben Quash

Participating : working toward worship / R.R. Reno

Remembering : offering our gifts / D. Stephen Long and Tripp York

Invoking : globalization and power / Timothy Jarvis Gorringe

Breaking bread : peace and war / Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells

Receiving Communion : euthanasia, suicide, and letting die / Kathryn Greene-McCreight

Sharing Communion : hunger, food, and genetically modified foods / Robert Song

Eating together : friendship and homosexuality / Joel James Shuman

Being silent : time in the Spirit / Michael S. Northcott

Footwashing : preparation for Christian life / Mark Thiessen Nation

Being blessed : wealth, property, and theft / Stephen Fowl

Bearing fruit : conception, children, and the family / Joseph L. Mangina

Being sent : witness / Michael G. Cartwright

The virtue of the liturgy / Jennifer Herdt

Afterword / Rowan Williams.