Goodness of God : Theology, Church, and the Social Order,9781587430190

Goodness of God : Theology, Church, and the Social Order

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ISBN13: 9781587430190
ISBN10: 1587430193
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Pub. Date: 2001-10-01
Publisher(s): Brazos Press
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Author Biography

D. Stephen Long is assistant professor of theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and codirector of the Center for Ethics and Values

Table of Contents

Preface 11(4)
Introduction 15(1)
Moral Norms As Social Constructions
15(4)
God and the Good, and Goodness As a Transcendental Predicate of Being
19(4)
The Good and the Holy Spirit
23(3)
The Quest for Goodness
26(5)
Part 1. The Subordination of Ethics to Theology
Beyond Evil and (Toward an Enchanted) Good
31(22)
Good and Evil in Light of ``The Soporific Appliances''
34(2)
On Getting Caught Up
36(2)
Getting Caught Up in the Tragic
38(3)
Beyond Evil
41(3)
Toward an Enchanting Good: Being Caught Up in a Quest for God
44(2)
Competing Visions/Alternative Quests
46(7)
Kant's Ethical Revolution against Religion: Questing for Freedom
53(52)
Both/And Theology
57(4)
Kant's Question: Can the Sensible Be Theological?
61(2)
Kant's Answer and the Ethical Revolution against Religion: Only through Freedom Can God Be Thought
63(3)
Overcoming the Kantian Debt
66(2)
The Repetition of Kant's Answers: Public Theologians
68(12)
The Church As Public
80(4)
Subordinating Ethics to Theology: Thomas Aquinas As Theologian
84(5)
Forgetting Kant's Answers, Remembering Kant's Question
89(16)
Beyond Evil through the Beauty of Holiness: True God, True Humanity
105(28)
The Reality of Evil
108(2)
Christology As Anthropology
110(2)
A Catholic Ecclesiological Alternative?
112(2)
Double Effect: The Kantian Quest Revisited?
114(3)
Objects and Intentions
117(3)
Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose
120(1)
You Will Be Like Gods, Knowing Good and Evil
121(6)
The Fall
127(2)
The Interiority of Gnostic Goodness
129(1)
Evil As Accidental
130(2)
Redeeming Evil
132(1)
Christian Ethics As Repentance
133(22)
The Ministry of Restoration
135(2)
Canonical Penance
137(3)
Penance As Virtue
140(2)
Protestant Loss of Penance
142(6)
Minimalism and the Manualists
148(3)
But Is This Ethics?
151(4)
Part 2. The Church and Other Social Formations
Ecclesia: Ordering Desires
155(33)
The Making of the Twelve: A New Creation
156(3)
Failure of the Church
159(2)
The Scandal of Disunity As a Mark of the Church
161(2)
The Right Ordering of Social Formations and the Church's Nonnecessity
163(1)
Obedience As Right Desire, The Supernatural Virtues
164(2)
Deadly Vices
166(2)
Gifts and Beatitudes
168(5)
The Social Formation of Gifts
173(1)
Commanding Desires
174(2)
The First Three Commandments: Church Life
176(3)
Fourth and Sixth Commandments: Family Life
179(3)
Commandments Seven through Ten: Loving Neighbors
182(2)
Fifth Commandment: The Means of Violence
184(4)
Oikos
188(45)
Ecclesial Social Reproduction
189(2)
The Goodness of Marriage
191(4)
Which Master Shall We Serve?
195(2)
Family As Source of Idolatry and Division: The Invention of Race
197(4)
One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Black or White Church?
201(3)
Alternative Family Lifestyles
204(1)
Loyal Oppositionists
205(7)
Civil Opposition
212(1)
Re-Hellenizing the Gospel
212(3)
Re-Evangelizing Hellenism
215(3)
Abortion: The Commodification of Human Flesh
218(2)
Abortion: Statecraft or Ecclesial Politics?
220(3)
Dying Well
223(2)
Speaking of Aging As the Optimal Allocation of Scarce Resources: The Language of Economics
225(3)
Dying As a Participation in Charity: The Language of Theology
228(2)
Honoring Our Elders
230(3)
Agora
233(67)
Jesus As Signifying Exchange
234(2)
Accomplishing Eucharist
236(2)
Reversal of Roles
238(1)
Common Ownership?
239(2)
Interrogating Tradition
241(7)
Capitalism's Choreography
248(2)
The Catholic Church/The Catholic Market
250(2)
The Cultural Logic of a Catholic Economy
252(3)
The Church
255(1)
Ecclesial Marks and Agora Scars
256(6)
Polis
De-Divinizing Emperors
262(1)
Divinity Re-Emerges: Caesaropapism
263(2)
The Power of the Sword
265(1)
God and Violence
266(4)
War As Devotional Practice
270(2)
From Sparta to Clausewitz
272(4)
Violent Concessions?
276(3)
Religious Liberty As State Project
279(2)
Modern War
281(2)
The Logic of Humility: Does War Result from Making Absolute the Relative?
283(4)
Why the Analysis Fails
287(3)
Humility As a Remedy
290(1)
Crime and Punishment, Repentance and Reconciliation
291(9)
Conclusion 300(5)
Notes 305(24)
Name Index 329(3)
Subject Index 332

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