Christian Ethics: A Historical Introduction

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The legacies of Christian ethics -- The biblical legacy of Christian ethics -- Philosophical legacies -- The ethics of early Christianity -- The formative years -- Seminal thinkers and transitions -- The moral vision of Saint Augustine -- Medieval Christianity -- Monastic and mystical contributions -- The confessional -- The Thomistic synthesis -- Late medieval forerunners -- The era of Reformation and Enlightenment -- The reformers : Luther and Calvin -- Catholic humanism and Counter-Reformation -- The radical Reformation -- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rationalism and evangelicalism -- Rationalism and revival in the eighteenth century -- Nineteenth-century philosophical and Christian ethics -- Nineteenth-century slavery and feminist controversies -- Christian ethics in the twentieth century -- The social gospel movement -- The social encyclicals -- Formative Christian moral thinkers -- The Vatican II watershed -- Liberation theology -- Ecumenical social ethics -- Christian ethics toward the third millennium -- Conflicting tendencies -- Can Christian ethics find a creative center?