Captive to Christ, Open to the World: On Doing Christian Ethics in Public

Brian Brock

feb 2015 · Lutterworth Press

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In this wide-ranging and engaging collection of interviews, Brian Brock discusses how Christian faith makes a difference for life in the modern world. Beginning with a discussion of teaching Christian ethics in the contemporary academy, Brock takes up environmental questions, political and medical ethics, the modern city and Christian responsibility to it, energy use, the information age, agriculture, political consensus and coercion, and many other issues. The reader is thus offered a broad and incisivediscussion of many contemporary topics in a brief, illuminating, but never superfcial manner. The book's unusual conversational style allows strikingly clear, creative, and concrete theological connections to emerge in the spaces between moral questions rarely thought of as linked. As the title suggests, the running theme of the interviews is being bound to Christ and placed into the contemporary world. Brock's theological readings of contemporary cultural trends are vigorous, unapologetic, and insightful, and they offer delightful surprises as well as fertile new ways through the sterile impasses of many issues currently being debated in the public square. This book provides an excellent starting point for those interested in fresh theological insights into contemporary ethical questions and an accessible introduction to Brock's previous works.

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Brian Brock is Reader in Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of 'Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture' (2007) and 'Christian Ethics in a Technological Age' (2010), and editor of 'Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church' (2007) and 'Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader' (2012), both with John Swinton. Kenneth Oakes is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Notre Dame, having previously been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tübingen. He is the author of 'Karl Barth on Theology and Philosophy' (2012) and 'Reading Karl Barth: A Companion to the Epistle to the Romans' (2011). His articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as 'Modern Theology', 'International Journal of Systematic Theology', and 'The Thomist'.