The Annual, the journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, is an essential source for students and faculty to keep abreast of new developments in Christian and religious ethics and to locate sources for research. The Annual publishes nine to ten refereed scholarly articles a year as well as a professional resources section on teaching and scholarship in ethics. Subjects include the nature and tasks of religious ethics, comparative ethics involving a variety of Western and Eastern traditions, religious social ethics and social theory, and problems in professional and applied ethics.
Table of Contents
Preface
Presidential Address
Moral Justifications for the Welfare State
Harlan Beckley
Poverty, Welfare, and Inequality
Social Science, Christian Ethics and Democratic Politics: Issues of Poverty and Welfare
Mary Jo Bane
Response to "Social Science, Christian Ethics and Democratic Politics: Issues of Poverty and Welfare" by Mary Jo Bane
Emilie M. Townes
Dirt and Economic Inequality: A Christian-Ethical Peek Under the Rug
Christine Firer Hinze
Inequality, Globalization, and Leadership: "Keeping up with the Joneses" across National Boundaries
Douglas A. Hicks
Religion and Liberalism Revisited
Panel on Theology Beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Civil Society and its Discontents
Nature, Grace, and Toleration: Civil Society and the Twinned Church
John R. Bowlin
Is Public Theology Really Public? Some Problems with Civil Society
William T. Cavanaugh
Faith, Hope, and Agony: Christian Political Participation Beyond Liberalism
Charles T. Mathewes
Response to Panel Papers
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Augustine and Arendt on Love: New Dimensions in the Religion and Liberalism Debates
Eric Gregory
Critiques and New Directions in Catholic Moral Theology
The Catholic Church's Public Confession: Theological and Ethical Implications
Aline H. Kalbian
Alasdair MacIntyre as Help for Rethinking Catholic Natural Law Estimates of Same-Sex Life Partnerships
William McDonough
John Paul II, Michael Novak, and the Differences Between Them
Todd David Whitmore
Tragedy and the Ethics of Hans Urs von Balthasar
Christopher Steck, SJ
Historical Studies in Christian Ethics
Divine Compassion and the Mystification of Power: The Latitudinarian Divines in the Secularization of Moral Thought
Jennifer A. Herdt
Natural Equality: Freedom, Authority and Obedience in Two Medieval Thinkers
Jean Porter
Judaism and Bioethics
Panel: Is There an Unique Jewish Bioethics?
Is There a Unique Jewish Ethics? The Role of Law in Jewish Bioethics
Elliot N. Dorff
Is There a Unique Jewish Bioethics of Human Reproduction?
Aaron L. Mackler
Nursing Fathers and Nursing Mothers: Notes toward a Distinctive Jewish View of Reproductive Ethics
Laurie Zoloth
Ethics in International Contect
Doing Ethics in the Pacific Islands: Interpreting Moral Dimensions of Prose Narrative
Jack Hill
On Keeping Theological Ethics Theological in Africa: The Quest for a (Southern) African Theological Ethics
R. Neville Richardson
