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.
A rigorous, high-level academic engagements by leading scholars in Christian ethics with the work of Gerald McKenny, one of the most prominent and widely respected contemporary theological ethicists.
Includes contributions by leading Christian ethicists from across the globe
This the first volume to facilitate critical engagements with Gerald McKenny, who is widely acknowledged as one of the most original and important Christian ethicists working today
This is an important, high-level resource for scholars and postgraduate students working in theological and philosophical ethics
Introduction, Paul Martens (Baylor University, USA) and Michael Mawson (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
1. The Dialectic of Grace, Gilbert Meilaender (Valparaiso University, USA)
2. To Live by Grace: The Role of a Distinctive Reformation Psychology in Barth's Ethics, Angela Carpenter (Hope College, UK)
3. Singularity and Solidarity: Conscience in Barth's Ethics, Jeffrey Morgan (Saint Joseph's College of Maine, USA)
4. Vocation in a Moral Vacuum: Protestantism in a Divided Society, Robin Lovin (Southern Methodist University, USA)
5. Supererogation for Protestants?, Eric Gregory (Princeton University, USA)
6. Body Matters: Some Brief Remarks in Praise of Jerry McKenny, Stanley Hauerwas (Duke University, USA)
7. “The Word Became Flesh”: What are the Implications of an Augustinian Incarnational Economy for Biotechnology?, Travis Kroeker (McMaster University, Canada)
8. Encountering Grace after the Fall: The Normativity of Nature in Protestant Ethics, Michael Mawson (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
9. Natural Law and the Normative Status of Human Nature: Barthian and Thomistic Versions of Theocentric Ethics, Stephen Pope (Boston College, USA)
10. Nature and Grace: A Contribution to a Long Conversation, Jean Porter (University of Notre Dame, USA)
11. Enhancement, Quantification, and the Image of God: A Theological Analysis of the Biostatistical Vision of Human Nature, Paul Scherz (The Catholic University of America, USA)
12. The Fulfilment of Creaturely Nature, Jennifer Herdt (Yale Divinity School, USA)
13. The Normative Status of Human Biological Nature and Ecology, Paul Martens (Baylor University, USA)
Bibliography
Index
This is a thrilling book to read. Working at the creative boundary between ethics and grace, its comprehensive coherence, lively discussion, and probing analysis offers more than standard edited volumes. Its critical and respectful dialogue with McKenny is a fitting tribute to a scholar whose influence is broad and deep.
Gerald McKenny has, without doubt, been amongst the finest Protestant ethicists of recent times in the English-speaking world. This is an outstanding collection of engagements with his work, which beautifully mirror the scholarly breadth, analytical rigour, and above all the deep intellectual generosity that have marked his own writing.
Theological ethicists owe a tremendous debt to Gerald McKenney; the following work is a modest response to that debt. As the introduction notes, he has been a “patient and gracious” reader of others' while at the same time presenting an ethics of grace attentive to nature. I'm tempted to say that he offers the best version of a Reformed ethic available today, but the ecumenical and theological diversity of the authors and chapters demonstrate that such a sentiment is far too limiting. Mawson and Martens are to be commended for bringing attention and honor to the importance of McKenney's work.
- Title: The Ethics of Grace: Engaging Gerald McKenny
- Authors: Paul Martens, Michael Mawson
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780567694706, 9780567694676, 0567694674, 0567694704
- Resource ID: LLS:9780567694706
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-12T04:15:10Z
Paul Martens is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Baylor University, USA.
Michael Mawson is Senior Lecturer in Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia.