Samuel Wells is Priest-in-Charge of St Mark's, Newnham, Cambridge, and a writer in theological ethics. He has published several books, including Transforming Fate into Destiny (1998), Faithfulness and Fortitude (2000), and Improvisation and the Drama of Christian Ethics (2004).

List of Contributors x

Preface xiii

Part I Studying Ethics through Worship 1

1 Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells 3

2 The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells 13

3 Why Christian Ethics Was Invented
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells 28

4 How the Church Managed Before There Was Ethics
Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells 39

Part II Meeting God and One Another 51

5 Gathering: Worship, Imagination, and Formation
Philip Kenneson 53

6 Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation
Emmanuel Katongole 68

7 Naming the Risen Lord: Embodied Discipleship and Masculinity
Amy Laura Hall 82

8 Being Reconciled: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship
John Berkman 95

9 Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts
Kevin J. Vanhoozer 110

10 Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries
Michael L. Budde 123

Part III Re-encountering the Story 139

11 Reading the Scriptures: Rehearsing Identity, Practicing Character
Jim Fodor 141

12 Listening: Authority and Obedience
Scott Bader-Saye 156

13 Proclaiming: Naming and Describing
Charles Pinches 169

14 Deliberating: Justice and Liberation
Daniel M. Bell, Jr 182

15 Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation
William T. Cavanaugh 196

16 Confessing the Faith: Reasoning in Tradition
Nicholas Adams 209

Part IV Being Embodied 223

17 Praying: Poverty
Kelly S. Johnson 225

18 Interceding: Giving Grief to Management
Michael Hanby 237

19 Being Baptized: Bodies and Abortion
Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt 250

20 Becoming One Body: Health Care and Cloning
M. Therese Lysaught 263

21 Becoming One Flesh: Marriage, Remarriage, and Sex
David Matzko McCarthy 276

22 Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust
Paul J. Wadell 289

Part V Re-enacting the Story 303

23 Offering: Treasuring the Creation
Ben Quash 305

24 Participating: Working toward Worship
R. R. Reno 319

25 Remembering: Offering our Gifts
D. Stephen Long and Tripp York 332

26 Invoking: Globalization and Power
Timothy Jarvis Gorringe 346

27 Breaking Bread: Peace and War
Gerald W. Schlabach 360

28 Receiving Communion: Euthanasia, Suicide, and Letting Die
Carole Bailey Stoneking 375

29 Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, and Genetically Modified Foods
Robert Song 388

30 Eating Together: Friendship and Homosexuality
Joel James Shuman 401

31 Being Silent: Time in the Spirit
Michael S. Northcott 414

32 Being Thankful: Parenting the Mentally Disabled
Hans S. Reinders 427

33 Washing Feet: Preparation for Service
Mark Thiessen Nation 441

Part VI Being Commissioned 453

34 Being Blessed: Wealth, Property, and Theft
Stephen Fowl 455

35 Bearing Fruit: Conception, Children, and the Family
Joseph L. Mangina 468

36 Being Sent: Witness
Michael G. Cartwright 481

Afterword
Rowan Williams 495

Index 499