Transfigured not Conformed: Christian Ethics in a Hermeneutic Key

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Title Page
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Contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Biographical Background
	Theological Trajectories
	Publication History
	Outline of This Volume
	A Reader’s Guide
Part I: A Christian Ethics of Messianic Presence (Ecclesia)
	Chapter 1: The Messianic Contours of Evangelical Ethics
		Why Freedom? The Protestant Grammar of the Christian Ethos
		Distinguishing between Apocalyptic Event and Messianic Time
		The Ethos of Messianic Time
		The Witness of Broken Indeterminacy
	Chapter 2: Ethical Life: The Form and Its Forms according to Bonhoeffer
		The Bonhoeffer Phenomenon and the Grammar of His Theology
		The Forms of Ethical Life
		The Mandates: Prefigured Forms of Human Life
		The Secret and the Understanding
	Chapter 3: Explorative Theology: Discovery and Discernment
		What Is Theological Research? Questions New and Old
		Research: ars inveniendi
		Theological Research—Explorative Theology
		The Ways of Discernment
		The Ways of Judgment
		God’s Acts and the Wisdom to Discern God’s Acts
Part II: Christian Witness in the World (Politia)
	Chapter 4: The Public Appearance of Religion: God’s Commandments and Their Political Presence
		Ethics in Traditions: In Lutheran Perspective
		The Public Presence of Religion in Society
		Law for the People: Understanding the Conditio Humana in Its Political Form
		Human Law
		On the “Ground” of Ethics: Ruled by the Spirit
	Chapter 5: Human Economies at Their Limits, but Governed within Their Limits
		Economy and Theology: Three Approaches
		Institutional Configurations: Limits of Economy, Limits for Economy
	Chapter 6: Adoption: A Theological Account of Political Responsibility to Entrusted Lives
		Toward a Positive Ethos of Adoption
		An Evangelical Message?
		Children and Human Rights
		Children: God’s Heritage
		Unfolding Creaturely Life as Encountering God’s Work within His Story
Part III: Receiving Given Life (Oeconomia)
	Chapter 7: God’s Story and Engelhardt’s Bioethics: Christian Witness in Modern Medicine
		The Inability of Reason to Engineer the Human
		How Christian Hope Relates to the “World” Even in Modern Times
		Witnessing Another World to the World
	Chapter 8: A Theological-Critical Hermeneutics of Life: Engaging Genetic Science
		Understanding Human Life: A Common and Public Ethical Task
		The Common Task of Science, Hermeneutics, and Ethics: The Conditio Humana
		Seeking the Conditio Humana Together
		Description and Visualization
		Naturalism?
		Beyond Moral Questions, to Seek the Good: Exploring Nature’s Goodness
		Further Topics: Changing Ethical Approaches and Questions
	Chapter 9: God’s Transfiguring Presence: Newly Created in the Presence of Disabled People
		Translocation
		The Transfiguration of Bodily Existence
		God’s Reality and Story: Embodiment
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