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Notes on Contributors xi Preface xiv Part I Studying Ethics Through Worship 1 1 Christian Ethics as Informed Prayer 3 Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells 2 The Gift of the Church and the Gifts God Gives It 13 Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells 3 Why Christian Ethics Was Invented 28 Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells 4 How the Church Managed Before There Was Ethics 39 Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells Part II Meeting God and One Another 53 5 Gathering: Worship, Imagination, and Formation 55 Philip Kenneson 6 Greeting: Beyond Racial Reconciliation 70 Emmanuel Katongole 7 Naming the Risen Lord: Embodied Discipleship and Masculinity 84 Amy Laura Hall 8 Being Reconciled: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship 97 John Berkman 9 Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts 112 Kevin J. Vanhoozer 10 Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries 124 Michael L. Budde 11 Praise: The Prophetic Public Presence of the Mentally Disabled 139 Brian Brock Part III Re-Encountering the Story 153 12 Reading the Scriptures: Rehearsing Identity, Practicing Character 155 Jim Fodor 13 Listening: Authority and Obedience 170 Scott Bader-Saye 14 Proclaiming: Naming and Describing 184 Charles Pinches 15 Deliberating: Justice and Liberation 197 Daniel M. Bell 16 Discerning: Politics and Reconciliation 211 William T. Cavanaugh 17 Confessing the Faith: Reasoning in Tradition 224 Nicholas Adams Part IV Being Embodied 237 18 Interceding: Poverty and Prayer 239 Kelly S. Johnson 19 Interceding: Giving Grief to Management 251 Michael Hanby 20 Interceding: Standing, Kneeling, and Gender 264 Lauren F. Winner 21 Being Baptized: Race 277 Willie Jennings 22 Being Baptized: Bodies and Abortion 290 Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt 23 Becoming One Body: Health Care and Cloning 303 M. Therese Lysaught 24 Becoming One Flesh: Marriage, Remarriage, and Sex 316 David Matzko McCarthy 25 Sharing Peace: Class, Hierarchy, and Christian Social Order 329 Luke Bretherton 26 Sharing Peace: Discipline and Trust 344 Paul J. Wadell Part V Re-Enacting the Story 357 27 Offering: Treasuring the Creation 359 Ben Quash 28 Participating: Working Toward Worship 374 R. R. Reno 29 Remembering: Offering Our Gifts 387 D. Stephen Long and Tripp York 30 Invoking: Globalization and Power 401 Timothy Jarvis Gorringe 31 Breaking Bread: Peace and War 415 Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells 32 Receiving Communion: Euthanasia, Suicide, and Letting Die 427 Kathryn Greene-McCreight 33 Sharing Communion: Hunger, Food, and Genetically Modifi ed Foods 440 Robert Song 34 Eating Together: Friendship and Homosexuality 453 Joel James Shuman 35 Being Silent: Time in the Spirit 466 Michael S. Northcott 36 Footwashing: Preparation for Christian Life 479 Mark Thiessen Nation Part VI Being Commissioned 491 37 Being Blessed: Wealth, Property, and Theft 493 Stephen Fowl 38 Bearing Fruit: Conception, Children, and the Family 506 Joseph L. Mangina 39 Being Sent: Witness 519 Michael G. Cartwright Afterword 533 40 The Virtue of the Liturgy 535 Jennifer Herdt 41 Afterword 547 Rowan Williams Index 551

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