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Kathryn D. Blanchard
The Gift of Contraception:
Calvin, Barth, and a Lost Protestant Conversation
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ALTHOUGH BIRTH CONTROL REMAINS A CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC AMONG Roman Catholics, it has all but disappeared in Protestant discussions of sexual ethics, owing to the seemingly more pressing issues of abortion and in vitro fertilization, as well as to the almost unanimous approval of contraceptive use among Protestant church bodies in the mid-1900s. This essay seeks to revive some past Reformed arguments pertinent to the subject, especially John Calvin's and Karl Barth's teachings on marriage and children, which both theologians view as distinct goods. Marriage is seen as a covenant relationship, a good in and of itself, even apart from procreation; while children are a gift or "divine offer" from God that demands response. Reviving distinctively Christian descriptions of marriage and children is crucial to critiquing the utilitarian language that seeks to overshadow current conversations about marriage and children.
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William C. Mattison III
The Changing Face of Natural Law:
The Necessity of Belief for Natural Law Norm Specification
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IN THE PAST THREE YEARS, TWO IMPORTANT CATHOLIC MORAL THINKERS—both well-respected Thomists—have published books on the natural law. Besides offering their own significant contributions to natural law thought, Jean Porter and Russell Hittinger each insightfully surveys developments in natural law thinking from the scholastics, into the early modern period, through today. In importantly similar narrations of the history of natural law, both Porter and Hittinger claim that natural law in the modern period has been understood as a source of specific moral norms that is independent of belief commitments and compelling to all rational creatures, even shorn of—in fact, precisely because it is shorn of—these authoritative commitments. However, both authors claim that this understanding of natural law is highly problematic. If the goal of natural law inquiry is a set of "independent" and "compelling to all" particular norms existing "free-floating" in an "authority-free zone," impossible demands have been made of natural law. Both Porter and Hittinger must and indeed do honor the notion of natural law as universally applicable and binding (or "written on every human heart," Rom. 2:15). Yet both acknowledge that something is necessary, beyond the specific norms of the natural law themselves, in order to identify and justify those norms.
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Victor Lee Austin
New Wine, New Wineskins: A Next Generation Reflects on Key Issues in Catholic Moral Theology
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Joyce Kloc Babyak
Aiming to Kill: The Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia
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Timothy A. Beach-Verhey
Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach, Third Edition
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Jennifer Beste
Sex, Marriage, and Family in World Religions
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David Clough
Facing Terrorism: Responding as Christians
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Lisa Bernal Corley
At Peace and Unafraid: Public Order, Security, and the Wisdom of the Cross
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Mark Douglas
Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict (Expanded and Updated)
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Scott Kline
Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning; Murdering Myths: The Story behind the Death Penalty
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Philip LeMasters
Rethinking Rights and Responsibilities: The Moral Bonds of Community
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Thomas Massaro
The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics; Globalization and Catholic Social Thought: Present Crisis, Future Hope
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Ann Mongoven
Sacred Rights: The Case for Contraception and Abortion in World Religions
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Rebecca Todd Peterson
After Empire: The Art and Ethos of Enduring Peace; Religion, Politics, and the Christian Right: Post 9/11 Powers and American Empire
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Timothy M. Renick
The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics
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Belmont Revisited: Ethical Principles for Research with Human Subjects
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Helen Daley Schroepfer
Moral Creativity: Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of Possibility
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Laura Stivers
Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women's Lives Matter
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Andrea Vicini
Theological Bioethics: Participation, Justice, and Change
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Brent Waters
Reasonable Ethics: A Christian Approach to Social, Economic, and Political Concerns
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