How to Do Christian Ethics: Living the Grammar of Christian Life Every Day

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
	A New Way
	An Old Way
	The Way of Listening Before Speaking
	Walking in the Way
	The Way Forward
Chapter 1: Christ, Culpability, and Social Deprivation
	Introduction
	Christ on a Cold Stone
	Mitigation, Culpability, and Social Deprivation
	On Being Practical (as Opposed to Being Religious)
	Unbind Him!
Chapter 2: Garbage: An Invitation to Face Our Creaturely State
	Introduction
	Trash, Care, and Perception
	Disposability, Commodity, and Trash
	Caring for Creatures in a Creaturely Manner
	The Producer-Consumer Binary as Trash-Producing
	Feasting, Fasting, and Sacrifice
	Christian Ritual and the Renewal of Perception
	Doxological Perception and Our Re-Education as Creatures
	Garbage as Mirror and Open Door
Chapter 3: In Our Image and Likeness: Theological Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
	Introduction
	AI as an Ethical Challenge
	Describing and Evaluating AI with a Theological-Ethical Grammar
		Inheritance and Decay
		Evil Powers and Temporary Peace: A Second Unique Insight from a Theological-Ethical Grammar
		Eschatological Creativity and Penultimate Order
	Addressing Some Ethical Challenges
		Human-centered
		Respecting Spheres
		Just War
		AGI
		Rights
		Enhancements
	Conclusion
Chapter 4: The Trunk of the Cross Is the Tree of Life: The Frailty of the Risen Christ and Theology of Disability
	The Modern “Ought”
	The “Athens” and “Jerusalem” Models
	The Trunk of the Cross Is the Tree of Life
	“Wondrously Wounded”
	The Frailty of the Image of God and Creation in the Likeness of God
	Redefining the Categories
Chapter 5: Who Cares? A Response of Christian Ethics to Shortages of Care
	Introduction
	Shortages of Care in the Modern Lifeworld
	Political and Social Responses to the Crisis of Care
		Type 1
		Type 2
	The Theological Grammar of Care
Chapter 6: The Spirit and Surveillance: Examining Forms of Knowledge, Power, and Discernment in the Church
	Introduction
	Surveillance Culture and the Church’s Complicity
	A Brief Theology of Big Data: Personalization and the Word of God Pro Me
		Luther’s Pro Me Theology
		“Observation without Witness” and the God Who Sees
		Human Power and God’s Verbum Efficax
	Spiritual Discernment in the Body of Christ
	Conclusion
Chapter 7: “What Will We Eat?” Or “What We Will Drink?”: Meat Consumption and the Messianic Contours of “The Peaceable Kingdom”
	The Initial Question and “Animal Turn” as Observational Starting Point
	Perception from a Theological Perspective: Creation as an Eschatological Confession
	Perception of Animals in the Light of Biblical Testimony
	The Vision from Isaiah 11 as a Vegetarian/Vegan Imperative?
	What about Non-Christians? Vegetarianism as a Plausible Option?
	Conclusion: A Reconciled Diversity
Chapter 8: The Politics of Truth-Telling in the “Post-Truth” Age of “Fake News”
	Introduction
	Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “What Is Meant by Telling the Truth”
	Hannah Arendt on Truth and Politics
	The Real as the Common World
Chapter 9: Cancel Culture: Mobilizing Christian Ethics at the Scene of Judgment
	Introduction
	Exceptional Justice
		What Is Cancel Culture?
		Naming the Transgression
	Pay It Forward
	The Impossibility of Forgiveness
		Looking beyond Mandatory Punishment
		Breaking the Cycle of Mandatory Cancellation
	Agents of Forgiveness
	Conclusion
Chapter 10: Family as Mystery: Theological Ethics beyond Polarization
	Introduction
	Theological Approaches to the Family
	Implicit Assumptions of What Family Might Mean
	Ethics as Making Aware through Interruption
	A Mystery Approach to Family
	How to Discuss Family?
Chapter 11: The Grammar of Christian Ethics in Human Rights
	Introduction
	Christian Ethics and Human Rights: Tales from a Troubled Relationship
	On What Grounds? Human Rights and the Quest for Foundation
	Deciphering the Christian Grammar in Human Rights: A Christological Perspective
	Conclusion: Benefits (and Some Limitations) of Deciphering the Christian Grammar in Human Rights
		Benefits for Human Rights
		Benefits for One’s Christian Self-Understanding
		Benefits for the Diagnosis of Human Rights Violations
		Limitations of a Christian Espousal of Human Rights
Chapter 12: Preserved in God’s History: On the Ethics of Dying with Some Regard to the Discussion about Assisted Suicide
	A Challenge or Place for Reflection
	“Vita Passiva” and What Happens from God
	Job’s Freedom and Liberation
	“Vita Passiva”: In the Challenge
	Without History: Preserved in the Other Story beyond Death
	The Other Freedom: In the Other Story
	Pastoral Practice
Chapter 13: What Belongs to Whom? Property and Sustainability in Theological Light
	Introduction
	Property: The Decisive Perspective
		Property as a Sacred and Inviolable Right
		The Tradition on Property: Thomas Aquinas, Hugo Grotius, and John Locke
		Hugo de Groot
		John Locke
		Property Rights in the Bible
	Four Theological Notions
		Vulnerability
		Cooperation
		Creative Self-withdrawal
		Gratitude
	Applications
		Precious Metals
		Lifesaving Medicine
	Conclusion
Chapter 14: Stress or Vocation: Ethics and/in Work
	Introduction
	Ethics in Work/Ethics and Work
	Ethics and Work: Profession and Vocation
	Profession, Character, and Vocation
	Profession, Goals, and Limits (on Stress and Career-making)
	Professional Ethics (Ethics in Work)
Chapter 15: The “Risk of Faith” and the Desire for Safety in a Security Society
	Introduction
	Ambivalence in the Desire for Safety
	Existential Uncertainty: Anxiety and Freedom
	The “Risk of Faith” and Its Dialectical “Grammar”
	Implications for Living in a Security Society
Index
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