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Glen Stassen and David Gushee’s Kingdom Ethics, originally published in 2003, is the leading Christian ethics textbook of the twenty-first century. Solidly rooted in Scripture — especially Jesus’s teachings in the Sermon on the Mount — the book has offered many students, pastors, and other readers a comprehensive and challenging framework for Christian ethical thought. 

This substantially revised edition of Kingdom Ethics features enhanced and updated treatments of all major contemporary ethical issues. David Gushee’s revisions include updated data and examples, a more global perspective and more gender-inclusive language, a clearer focus on methodology, discussion questions added to every chapter, and a substantial, detailed new glossary.

ISBN-13: 9780802876119

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Eerdmans - William B. Publishing Company

Publication Date: 06-26-2017

Pages: 550

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University, Atlanta, Georgia. His twenty other books include Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: Genocide and Moral Obligation and The Sacredness of Human Life: Why an Ancient Biblical Vision Is Key to the World's Future. Glen H. Stassen (1936–2014) served as the Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. His other books include Living the Sermon on the Mount and Just Peacemaking.

Table of Contents

Illustrations x

Preface to the Second Edition (2016) xi

Preface to the First Edition (2003) xvi

Acknowledgments in the First Edition xxii

Part 1 Methodology for Kingdom Ethics

1 Jesus Began to Proclaim 3

The Reign of God

2 Blessed Are You 21

Virtues of Kingdom People

3 Law and Prophets 43

Authority and Scripture

4 Moral Structure in the World 64

The Form and Function of Moral Norms

5 Doing, Not Dualism 86

The Transforming Initiatives of the Sermon on the Mount

6 The Greatest Commandment 107

Love

7 Weightier Matters of the Law 126

Justice

8 So Much Value 149

The Sacredness of Life

9 Extracting Logs, Examining Fruits 169

Learning to Be Faithful

Part 2 Core Moral Issues in Kingdom Ethics

10 Salt, Light, Deeds 195

The Church's Public Witness in an Unbelieving World

11 Violence Close at Hand 215

Criminal Justice

12 God Made Them Male and Female 234

Patriarchy, Gender, and Jesus

13 Adultery of the Heart 252

Sexual Ethics in the Meantime

14 What God Has Joined Together 270

Marriage, Divorce, and Children

15 Let Your Yes Be Yes 288

The Ethics of Truthful Speech

16 Peacemaking, Cheek Turning, and Enemy Love 308

The Ethics of War

17 Thy Kingdom Come 339

Prayer, Trust, and Following Jesus

18 Treasures on Earth 359

Economic Ethics in the Kingdom Way

19 Even the Birds of the Air 379

Creation Care and the Kingdom

20 Judgment, Humility, Dogs, and Swine 396

Overcoming the Sin of Racism

21 Curing Even Disease 417

The Way of Jesus and Contemporary Bioethics

22 A House Built on Rock 442

The Way of the Kingdom

Glossary 449

Bibliography 476

Author Index 497

Subject Index 503

Scripture Index 517