How To Do Christian Ethics

Brian Brock is Chair of Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen, UK.Nadine Hamilton is Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.Daniel R. Patterson is Lecturer in Theology at St Trivelius Institute, Bulgaria.

• Introduction (Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, UK; Nadine Hamilton, FAU Erlangen- Nürnberg, Germany; Daniel R. Patterson, St Trivelius Institute, Bulgaria)Chapter 1“Christ, Culpability, and Social Deprivation” (Michael Banner, University of Cambridge, UK)Chapter 2“Garbage: An Invitation to Face our Creaturely State” (Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, UK)Chapter 3“In Our Image and Likeness: Theological Ethics and Artificial Intelligence” (Ad de Bruijne, Theological University Kampen/Utrecht, The Netherlands)Chapter 4“The Trunk of the Cross is the Tree of Life: The Frailty of the Risen Christ and Theology of Disability” (Nadine Hamilton, Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)Chapter 5“Who Cares? A Response of Christian Ethics to Shortages of Care” (Stefan Heuser, Nuremberg Institute of Technology, Germany)Chapter 6“The Spirit and Surveillance: Examining Forms of Knowledge, Power, and Discernment in the Church” (Emily Beth Hill, InterVarsity, USA)Chapter 7“What Will We Eat? Or What We Will Drink? Meat Consumption and the Messianic Contours of ‘The Peaceable Kingdom’” (Marco Hofheinz, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany)Chapter 8“The Politics of Truth-telling in the ‘Post-truth’ Age of ‘Fake News’” (Michael R. Laffin, University of Aberdeen, UK)Chapter 9“Cancel Culture: Mobilising Christian Ethics at the Scene of Judgment” (Daniel R. Patterson, St. Trivelius Institute, Bulgaria)Chapter 10“Family as Mystery: Theological Ethics Beyond Polarisation” (Petruschka Schaafsma, Protestant Theological University, Germany)Chapter 11“The Grammar of Christian Ethics in Human Rights” (Christine Schliesser, University of Fribourg, Switzerland)Chapter 12“Preserved in God's history: On the Ethics of Dying with Some Regard to the Discussion about Assisted Suicide” (Hans G. Ulrich, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)Chapter 13“What belongs to Whom?: Property and Sustainability in Theological Light” (Cornelius van der Kooi, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)Chapter 14“Stress or Vocation: Ethics and/in work” (Edward van’t Slot, Protestant Theological University, The Netherlands)Chapter 15“The ‘Risk of Faith’ and the Desire for Safety in a Security Society” (Pieter Vos, Protestant Theological University, The Netherlands)Index

This volume is both theologically rich and ethically relevant for students of Christian ethics in the 21st century. By centering real-world moral problems rather than ethical theories, students will learn how to make sense of the contemporary world while centering the gospel.