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Book SynopsisThis book explores Christian theological, legal, constitutional, historical, and philosophical meanings of conscience. In doing so, it surveys how conscience has been deployed in the New Testament text, across Christian history, and in various contemporary applications, including rights to sexual expression and constitutional law.
Table of ContentsPart I. Themes in Understandings of Conscience in Christianity: 1. New Testament on conscience Wendell Willis; 2. Conscience and natural law in scripture David VanDrunen; 3. Conscience in early Christian thought John Anthony McGuckin; 4. Sensus Fidei, the magisterium, and the formation of conscience E. Christian Brugger; Part II. Conscience According to Major Figures and Traditions: 5. Conscience in the early church fathers Alexis Torrance; 6. St Thomas Aquinas on conscience Cajetan Cuddy, OP; 7. Reforming the conscience: magisterial reformers on the theory and practice of conscience John L. Thompson; 8. Toward a theology of a redeemed conscience Jeffrey B. Hammond; 9. Pierre Bayle: an enlightened alternative to John Locke Edward Andrew; 10. Freedom of conscience and its right to constitutional protection: the contribution of Roger Williams David Little; 11. Jonathan Edwards on conscience Michael McClymond; 12. Obeying God rather than men: uneasy evangelicals, conscience, and politics Micah Watson; 13. Mormonism and conscience Rosalynde Welch and Nathan B. Oman; 14. Culture and conscience in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI Peter J. Casarella; Part III. Applied Topics in Law and Conscience: 15. Liberty of conscience, free exercise of religion, and the U.S. constitution Nathan S. Chapman; 16. Religious conscience protections in American state constitutions Michael J. DeBoer; 17. Forced conformity or accommodation? How to reconcile conscience and difference in a pluralistic democracy Mark Rienzi; 18. Christian conscience and sexual expression rights Helen M. Alvaré; 19. Conscience and war Joseph Capizzi; 20. Institutional conscience, corporate persons, and Hobby Lobby Christopher Tollefsen; 21. Religion, conscience, and the law: reasons, bases, and limits for exemptions R. Kent Greenawalt; Index.
