Scripture, Tradition, and Reason in Christian Ethics

Bharat Ranganathan is the Beamer-Schneider SAGES Fellow in Ethics at Case Western Reserve University, USA.Derek Woodard-Lehman is Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he also serves as the Wellington Programme Coordinator for the Centre for Theology and Public Issues.

• 1. Normative Dimensions in Christian Ethics.- Section I Scripture.- 2. Christian Ethics, the Bible, and the Powers of Reading.- 3. Between Comparison and Normativity: Scriptural Reasoning and Religious Ethics.- 4. The Asceticism of Interpretation: John Cassian, Hermeneutical Askēsis, and Religious Ethics.- Section II Tradition.- 5. Choosing to Become Who You Are: Authority and Freedom in Karl Barth’s Account of Moral Formation.- 6. Natural Law, Freedom, and Tradition: A Catholic Perspective on Mediating Between Liberty and Freedom.- 7. Schelling’s Pauline Anthropology.- Section III Reason. -8. Paul Ramsey’s Christian Deontology.- 9. Union with Christ: Participation as the Ground of Christian Ethics in Augustine and Reformed Augustinianisms.- 10. Mothering Theo-Political Ideology: Natural Law, Empirical Facts, and Discourse Politics.