Christian ethics; sources of the living tradition, [electronic resource]
edited with introductions by Waldo Beach and H. Richard Niebuhr.
- New York, Ronald Press Co. [1955]
- 496 p. 21 cm.
Includes bibliographies.
Introduction to biblical ethics -- Ethics of the early Christian church -- Clement of Alexandria -- St. Augustine -- Ethics of monasticism: The rule of St. Benedict. The little flowers of St. Francis -- Ethics of mysticism: Bernard of Clairvaux. Meister Eckhart -- Thomas Aquinas and scholasticism -- Martin Luther -- John Calvin -- Ethics of Puritanism and Quakerism: Richard Baxter. Robert Barclay -- Joseph Butler and Anglican rationalism -- John Wesley -- Jonathan Edwards -- Soren Kierkegaard -- Walter Rauschenbusch -- Current trends.
On ethics, excerpts from the writings of St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Joseph Butler, John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, Soren Kierkegaard, and Walter Rauschenbusch, among others.