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The Ethics of Grace
Engaging Gerald McKenny
The Ethics of Grace
Engaging Gerald McKenny
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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.
Table of Contents
1. The Dialectic of Grace, Gilbert Meilaender (Valparaiso University, USA)
2. The Fulfillment of Creaturely Nature, Jennifer Herdt (Yale Divinity School, USA)
3. Grace and Christian Freedom Revisited: A Barth-Edwards Conversation, Angela Carpenter (Hope College, USA)
4. Encountering Grace after the Fall, Michael Mawson (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
5. Engaging Barth: With and beyond McKenny, Stanley Hauerwas (Duke University, USA)
6. The Problem of Ethics, Revisited: The New Law and Human Freedom in Aquinas and Barth, Jean Porter (University of Notre Dame, USA)
7. The Place of Obligation and Supererogation in Protestant Ethics, Eric Gregory (Princeton University, USA)
8. How Long is Long Enough?, Celia Deane-Drummond (University of Notre Dame, USA)
9. “The Word Became Flesh”: What are the Implications of Incarnational Economy for Biotechnology?, Travis Kroeker (McMaster University, Canada)
10. Resistance, Witness and Identity: Protestant Ethics after Totalitarianism, Robin Lovin (Southern Methodist University, USA)
11. The Normative Status of Human Nature and the Limits of Ecosystem Engineering, Paul Martens (Baylor University, USA)
12. Optimization, Normalization, and Enhancement: The Role of the Quantification of Traits in Debates about Human Nature, Paul Scherz (Catholic University of America, USA)
13. Phenomenology and the Ethics of Enhancement, Robert Song (Durham University, UK)
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Product details
Published | 18 Apr 2024 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 230 |
ISBN | 9780567708335 |
Imprint | T&T Clark |
Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
Series | T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |

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