The Ethics of Grace: Engaging Gerald McKenny

ISBN-13: 9780567694676 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 232 str.

USA) Associate Professor Paul Martens (Baylor University; New Zealand) Dr Michael Mawson (University of Auckland

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This volume draws together leading theologians and Christian ethicists from across the globe to critically engage with and reflect upon Gerald McKenny, widely acknowledged as one of the most original and important Christian ethicists working today. The essays highlight the significance of McKenny’s interventions with a range of important debates in contemporary theological ethics, ranging from analyses of the Protestant conception of grace to bioethics and medicine. The Ethics of Grace is the first volume to facilitate critical engagements with a number of key themes in McKenny’s work, not in the least his interpretation of Karl Barth. Among the contributions, Jennifer Herdt discusses McKenny’s Barthian interest in the relationship between nature and grace; Angela Carpenter uses his Barthian understanding of grace and human action as a framework to discuss Jonathan Edwards; Stanley Hauerwas pushes McKenny’s theology beyond Barth. Economic, political, and technological themes are also discussed in depth, for instance in Robert Song’s chapter on the phenomenology of biotechnological enhancement. Reaching far beyond the work of Gerald McKenny, this multifaceted volume is a high-level resource for students and scholars of theological and philosophical ethics.

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Introduction, Paul Martens (Baylor University, USA) and Michael Mawson (Charles Sturt University, Australia) 1. The Dialectic of Grace, Gilbert Meilaender (Valparaiso University, USA) 2. To Live by Grace: The Role of a Distinctive Reformation Psychology in Barth’s Ethics, Angela Carpenter (Hope College, UK) 3. Singularity and Solidarity: Conscience in Barth's Ethics, Jeffrey Morgan (Saint Joseph's College of Maine, USA) 4. Vocation in a Moral Vacuum: Protestantism in a Divided Society, Robin Lovin (Southern Methodist University, USA) 5. Supererogation for Protestants?, Eric Gregory (Princeton University, USA) 6. Body Matters: Some Brief Remarks in Praise of Jerry McKenny, Stanley Hauerwas (Duke University, USA) 7. “The Word Became Flesh”: What are the Implications of an Augustinian Incarnational Economy for Biotechnology?, Travis Kroeker (McMaster University, Canada) 8. Encountering Grace after the Fall: The Normativity of Nature in Protestant Ethics, Michael Mawson (Charles Sturt University, Australia) 9. Natural Law and the Normative Status of Human Nature: Barthian and Thomistic Versions of Theocentric Ethics, Stephen Pope (Boston College, USA) 10. Nature and Grace: A Contribution to a Long Conversation, Jean Porter (University of Notre Dame, USA) 11. Enhancement, Quantification, and the Image of God: A Theological Analysis of the Biostatistical Vision of Human Nature, Paul Scherz (The Catholic University of America, USA) 12. The Fulfilment of Creaturely Nature, Jennifer Herdt (Yale Divinity School, USA) 13. The Normative Status of Human Biological Nature and Ecology, Paul Martens (Baylor University, USA) Bibliography Index