Biblical Ethics and Homosexuality: Listening to Scripture by Robert L. Brawley (Editor)What are the most important texts for modern Christians to read in order to arrive at responsible decisions regarding the ethics of human sexual behavior? How should those texts be translated for today's reader? How should the Bible be used in this enterprise? Contributors to this book, all notable biblical scholars, confront these questions as they deal with issues surrounding the ethics of sexual behavior.
Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics by Vincent W. Lloyd (Editor); Andrew Prevot (Editor)Explores how Christian ideas, practices, and institutions can contribute to today's struggle for racial justice and how those ideas, practices, and institutions need to be reimagined in light of the challenges to white supremacy posed by today's movements for racial justice.
The Justice of War: Its Foundations in Ethics and Natural Law by Richard HallPuts normative ethical theory at the forefront in its discussion of the justice of war. Situating the modern theory of just war in its historical context, Richard A. S. Hall gives full attention to natural law, a mainstay of just war theory.
Pacifism: A Philosophy of Nonviolence by Robert L. HolmesIn a world riven with conflict, violence and war, this book proposes a philosophical defense of pacifism. It argues that there is a moral presumption against war and unless that presumption is defeated, war is unjustified.
Social Ethics
A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic by Stanley HauerwasShows how discussions of Christology and the authority of scripture involve questions about what kind of community the church must be to rightly tell the stories of God. Challenges the dominant assumption of contemporary Christian social ethics that there is a special relation between Christianity and some form of liberal democratic social system.