The Promise of Lutheran Ethics

 
The Promise of Lutheran Ethics  The Studies Department of the Division for Church in Society initiated and funded The Promise of Lutheran Ethics in response to ongoing questions about how Lutherans approach ethics. A group of well-known scholars and teachers explore distinctive Lutheran emphases, themes, and approaches to Christian ethics. In their seven pivotal, original essays, they provide their own accounts of Lutheran ethics as a way of life in today's world, reflecting both commonalities and differences. They wrote their essays in dialogue with one another, which is continued in an edited "table talk" conversation.

Together the chapters comprise a significant contribution to Lutheran social witness and to ecumenical conversation on the contemporary nature of Christian ethics. The book includes the most extensive bibliography available on Lutheran ethics.

Journal of Lutheran Ethics, online at elca.org/jle, carried multiple reviews of this book in 2002. 
View these reviews on the journal's Web site.

The Promise of Lutheran Ethics
Table of Contents

Introduction: A Tradition of Christian Ethics
by John R. Stumme, editor

In Today's Context
by Karen L. Bloomquist, editor

Lutheran Ethics: Perennial Themes and Contemporary Challenges
by Robert Benne

The Twofold Center of Lutheran Ethics: Christian Freedom and God's Commandments
by Reinhard Hutter

Practicing Christians: Prayer as Formation
by Martha Ellen Stortz

African American Lutheran Ethical Action: The Will to Build
by Richard Perry

Ethics and the Promise of God: Moral Authority and the Church's Witness
by James M. Childs, Jr.

Pauline Ethics: Congregations as Communities of Moral Deliberation
by David Frederickson

The Reform Dynamic: Addressing New Issues in Uncertain Times
by Larry Rasmussen with Cynthia Moe-Lobeda

A Table Talk on Lutheran Ethics
by all the authors

Selected Bibliography on Lutheran Ethics
by John R. Stumme

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