Academic

Includes bibliographical references and index.

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""The “Rough Groundâ€&#x; of theology""; ""On genre and bricklaying: What this book is about""; ""A Thank You""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface to the Second Edition""; ""Preface""; ""Part 1 -- The Task of Theological Ethics: Truthful Speech""; ""Chapter 1 On Doctrine and Ethics""; ""Problematizing the relation between doctrine and ethics""; ""How Christians have thought about being Christian: Some historical considerations""; ""How ethics became a problem in modernity""; ""Theology and ethics after Barth""

""Chapter 2 The Truth about God: The Decalogue as Condition for Truthful Speech""""God and morality""; ""Aquinas and Luther on the Decalogue""; ""Aquinas""; ""How the law reveals God: The necessity of the church""; ""Chapter 3 “Salvation even in Sinâ€&#x;: Learning to Speak Truthfully about Ourselves""; ""The trouble with Sin""; ""Sin and the human condition: Why they are not the same""; ""Speaking the Truth, Stealing, and Sin""; ""Part 2 -- The Truth about Sanctification: Holiness Exemplified""; ""Chapter 4 The Sanctified Body: Why Perfection does not Require a “Selfâ€&#x;""

""The problem with holiness""""The permeable body in Paul""; ""The wounded body""; ""The Sanctified body""; ""Chapter 5 Going Forward by Looking Back: Agency Reconsidered""; ""Why I quit worrying about agency and learned to love stories""; ""The “Postmodernâ€&#x; turn""; ""Christian character and agency""; ""Chapter 6 Gay Friendship: A Thought Experiment in Catholic Moral Theology""; ""Difficult beginnings""; ""Pretending to be a Roman Catholic moral theologian""; ""On being friends with gay Christians""; ""Chapter 7 Characterizing Perfection: Second Thoughts on Character and Sanctification""

""What is right and wrong about Wesley""""What is right about Lawâ€&#x;s, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life""; ""Characterizing perfection""; ""Chapter 8 Timeful Friends: Living with the Handicapped""; ""On the ethics of writing about the ethics of the care of the mentally handicapped""; ""On “Usingâ€&#x; the mentally handicapped""; ""Vanierâ€&#x;s wisdom""; ""Doing things with Vanier""; ""Chapter 9 In Defense of Cultural Christianity: Reflections on Going to Church""; ""Culture, theology, and the church""; ""Going to church""; ""The church as a non-voluntary community""

""Returning to Aldersgate: A sermon with commentary""""One sermon does not make a culture, but it is not a bad place to start""; ""Part 3 -- Speaking Truthfully in, for, and against the World""; ""Chapter 10 The Non-Violent Terrorist: In Defense of Christian Fanaticism""; ""On being a fanatic""; ""The “Ethicsâ€&#x; of terrorism""; ""Epistemological crises and war""; ""Witness as theological terrorism""; ""Chapter 11 No Enemy, No Christianity: Preaching between â€&#x;Worldsâ€&#x;""

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