Volume One of Traditional Christian Ethics describes the terminology, discusses popular approaches to ethical decision-making today, illustrates that the earliest Christians conducted themselves in accordance with a large number of specific moral rules, states the method of this set of books for reconstructing the content of early Christian ethics/law as attested before the devastating epidemic and mass apostasy of AD 249-251, gives reasons for regarding this as the terminal date, and provides a guide to using the lists. At a number of points, this volume deals with objections to its theses. Volume One also furnishes you with complete information as to where you can find and look up the ancient sources cited in translation. Traditional Christian Ethics will help you solve problems in moral decision-making when Scripture is unclear or silent. You can solve them through its comprehensive itemized concordances of citations to precepts of Christian ethics from all translated ancient texts. Its sources possess unassailable authority that cannot be fabricated, and are persuasive among most Christian denominations. Preachers and professional scholars will find them invaluable as a starting point in preparing their own sermons, books, articles, and essays on specific points of ethics.

This book provides both a short history of Christian ethics and looks at itsbasic sources as they arise from Judaism, Greco-Roman ethics, andChristianity

Traditional Christian Ethics features two exhaustive alphabetical lists of affirmative commandments and prohibitions from the earliest Christian ethics, as found in writers before the mass apostasy of 249-251 AD. The affirmatives, or positives, list consists of what Christians are/were commanded or encouraged to do. The other list is of negatives or prohibitions, i.e. what Christians are/were discouraged from doing, similarly arranged. The source material for the work encompasses far more than the ten-volume Ante-Nicene Fathers edited by Roberts and Donaldson. It also draws from all writings of the period: Christian, Jewish, and pagan, available in English or French translation, plus a few Latin translations. Some translations have been published only in scholarly journals, and some only in the twenty-first century. Volumes Two and Three form a single exhaustive alphabetical list of affirmative commandments or precepts, including mental attitudes, i.e. what Christian ethics commanded or encouraged according to writers on Christian ethics before 250 AD. Using earlier drafts of this set of books, Dr. Brattston's articles and booklets synthesizing early and contemporary Christianity have been published by a wide variety of denominations and ministries in every major English-speaking country. He hopes readers will use them as a starting-point for writing articles, papers, and sermons of their own.

WHAT CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO DO Confidence--Clement of Alexandria--Stromata--4.8 Confidence--Hebrews--10.35 Confidence before God--Origen--De Principiis--3.1.21 Confidence: boldness in confidence--Origen--Commentary on Ephesians--3.12 Confidence: exorcise confidently--Two Letters to Virgins--(pseudo-Clement)--1.12 Confidence, godly--1 Clement--2.3 Confidence: husbands are to have confidence in their wives--Clement of Alexandria--Paedagogus--3.11 Confidence: if you think you can stand, take heed lest you fall--1 Corinthians--10.12 Confidence: if you think you can stand, take heed lest you fall--Two Letters to Virgins--(pseudo-Clement)--2.13 Confidence in faith--Origen--Homilies on Judges--9.1 Confidence in God--Clement of Alexandria--Stromata--2.6 Confidence in God--Origen--De Principiis--3.1.21 Confidence in God--Theophilus--To Autolycus--1.8 Confidence in God rather than man--Hippolytus--Commentary on Daniel--3.29 Confidence in Jesus Christ--Origen--Homilies on Isaiah--7.2 Confidence in the Lord--1 Clement--34.5 Confidence in the Lord--Tertullian--Against Marcion--2.19 Confidence in the mind--Origen--Homilies on Judges--9.1 Confidence in the Word--Clement of Alexandria--Protrepticus--12 Confidence of uncreated liberty--Origen--Homilies on Leviticus--16.6.1

"War and Christian Ethics looks to influential writers throughout history to determine the theoretical issues involved in shaping a Christian criticism of war. It brings together source materials from the most influential patristic, medieval, and modern writers dealing with the morality of war from a variety of perspectives."--BOOK JACKET.

Using Alastair MacIntyre's work as a methodological guide for doing ethics in the Christian tradition, the contributors to this work offer essays on three subjects: description of MacIntyre's approach; reflections on moral issues; and selected essays on family, abortion, feminism and more.

What Not to Do Abominable embraces-1 Clement-28.1 Abortion-Athenagoras-Presbeia-35 Abortion-Barnabas-19.5 Abortion-Didache-2.2 Abortion-Doctrina-2.2 Abortion-Hippolytus-Philosophumena-9.7 Abortion-Letter to Diognetus-5.6 Abortion-Minucius Felix-Octavius-30 Abortion-Revelation of Peter-26 Abortion-Sibylline Oracles-2.281f Abortion-Tertullian-Apologeticum-9 Abortion-Tertullian-Exhortation to Chastity-12 Abortion by drugs-Clement of Alexandria-Paedagogus-2.10 (96) Abortionist-Doctrina-5.2 Abstinence, excessive, at the beginning stages-Origen-Homilies on Numbers-27.9.2