Moral Issues

and Christian Responses

Eighth Edition

edited by

Patricia Beattie Jung and L. Shannon Jung

Fortress Press

Minneapolis

MORAL ISSUES AND CHRISTIAN RESPONSES

Eighth Edition

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Moral issues and Christian responses / edited by Patricia Beattie Jung

and L. Shannon Jung.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8006-9896-6 (pbk.: alk. paper)—ISBN 978-1-4514-2443-0

(ebook)

1. Christian ethics. I. Jung, Patricia Beattie. II. Jung, L. Shannon

(Loyle Shannon), 1943–

BJ1251. J86 2013

241—dc23

2012020290

CONTENTS

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Primer on Doing Ethics

Part One: What Makes Ethics Christian?

Chapter 1: Foundations

An Opening Case

Introduction

Biblical Authority

Walter Brueggemann

The Bible in Transit

Phyllis Trible

A Death to Celebrate? The Just-War Tradition and the Killing of Osama Bin Laden

Ronald Osborn

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Brain

David A. Hogue

“Wading through Many Sorrows”: Toward a Theology of Suffering in Womanist Perspective

M. Shawn Copeland

Chapter 2: Taking a Stand

An Opening Case

Introduction

The Eclipse of Love for God

Edward Collins Vacek

Mujerista Discourse: A Platform for Latinas’ Subjugated Knowledge

Ada María Isasi-Díaz

“Rights and Wrongs”: An Interview with Nicholas Wolterstorff

The Unholy Trinity of Consumerism

Skye Jethani

Chapter 3: Forgiveness

An Opening Case

Introduction

Imitating God: Nickel Mines, Forgiveness, and Yoder

Donald B. Kraybill

Blame Versus Forgiveness

John Kekes

Lessons in Mercy: Justice and Reconciliation in the Aftermath of Atrocities

Daniel Philpott

Letting Go: The Final Miracle of Forgiveness

Miroslav Volf

Part Two: Sexual Ethics

Chapter 4: Sexual Intimacy

An Opening Case

Introduction

The Body’s Grace

Rowan Williams

Marriage Prep and Double Standards: The Hookup Culture’s Damaging Effects

Kari-Shane Davis Zimmerman

Good Sex: Its Meaning and Morals

Dennis Hollinger

Love Your Enemy: Sex, Power, and Christian Ethics

Karen Lebacqz

Sexual Slavery on Main Street

Elissa Cooper

Chapter 5: Marriage and Family

An Opening Case

Introduction

A Betrothal Proposal

Michael G. Lawler and Gail S. Risch

Domestic Abuse

Judith Ewing

No Good Divorce: The Children’s Perspective: An Interview with Elizabeth Marquardt

What God Has Joined

David Instone-Brewer

Role Play

Patti Ricotta

Advice and Consent: Monogamy in the Age of Dan Savage

Benjamin J. Dueholm

Part Three: Prejudice and Discrimination

Chapter 6: Heterosexism...