A new collection from RNS blogger David Gushee, along with Isaac Sharp, explores the different roles that scholars and popular figures have played in forming evangelicals’ understandings of Christian ethics. Bringing together both senior and emerging voices from across the spectrum of post-World War II American evangelical ethical thought, Evangelical Ethics: A Reader (Westminster John Knox Press) demonstrates that evangelical social ethics always involves offering significant critique, accompanied by the effort to renew, convert, or transform. It further argues that more conservative voices tend to look at a (morally declining) society as the object of transformation, whereas for more progressive voices the object of transformation efforts is often evangelical Christianity itself. Contributors include evangelical stalwarts like Carl F. H. Henry, Francis Schaeffer, and Jim Wallis, together with younger voices like Soong-Chan Rah and Jennifer McBride, and ethicists like the late Allen Verhey and Glen Stassen.
Source: Religion News Service