The Annual, the journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, offers access to a wide variety of the most recent work in Christian and religious ethics. It is an essential source for student and faculty to keep abreast of new developments in the discipline and to locate sources for research.

Editor's Preface

Presidential AddressTo Serve Our God and to Rule the WorldJohn H. Yoder

Selected Papers

The Polyphonic Ethics of the Apostle PaulWayne A. Meeks

The Practice and Performance of Scripture: Grounding Christian Ethics in a Communal HermeneuticMichael G. Cartwright

The Struggle for Social Justice in South Africa and the Need for an Ethic of Christian CommunityR. Neville Richardson

Ethics, Economics and Christian Realism: Religious Social Theories of Reinhold Neibuhr and Gregory VlastosP. Travis Kroeker

Justice in the Puritan Convenantal TraditionE. Clinton Gardner

The Federal Tradition of Theology and Political Ethics: Background for Understanding the U.S. Constitution and SocietyCharles S. McCoy

Roger Williams on the Limits of Religious LibertyEllis M. West

Ways of Thinking NaturallyMartin L. Cook

The Ethical Legitimacy of Excluding the Elderly and Limitations of the Relational model of AgencyJohn F. Kilner

The Social Self at the VDT: Exploring the Advantages and Limitations of the Relational Model of AgencyBarbara Hilkert Andolsen

Professional Resources Literature, the Arts, and the Teaching of Ethics

IntroductionLiterature, the Arts, and the Teaching of Ethics: The SurveyWilson Yates

Literature and Film in the Teaching of EthicsTina Pippin and Glen Stassen

The Moral Life in Literature: Reflections on a CoursePaul J. Wadell, CP

Christian Ethics and The Good Conscience: Building a Course around a NovelAnne E. Patrick

The Use of the Arts in Courses about RacismPeter J. Paris

Use of Arts in Teaching about Sexual and Domestic AbuseMary Potter Engel

Works of Art and Literature Used in Ethics Courses: An Annotated Bibliography

Contributors