Worship and Ethics: Lutherans and Anglicans in Dialogue

312 Pages·1996·7.215 MB·English

by  Oswald Bayer (editor), Alan Suggate (editor)

Worship and Ethics
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Theologische Bibliothek
Töpelmann
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Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York
1996
Edited by Oswald Bayer and Alan Suggate
Worship and Ethics
Lutherans and Anglicans
in Dialogue
Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York
1996
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Worship and ethics : Lutherans and Anglicans in dialogue / edited
by Oswald Bayer and Alan Suggate.
p. cm. - (Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann; Bd. 70)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 3-11-014377-1
1. Christian ethics — Anglican authors. 2. Christian ethics —
Lutheran authors. 3. Public worship — Anglican Communion.
4. Public worship — Lutheran Church. 5. Anglican Communion
— Doctrines. 6. Lutheran Church — Doctrines. 7. Anglican
Communion - Liturgy. 8. Lutheran Church — Liturgy.
I. Bayer, Oswald. II. Suggate Alan M. III. Series: Theologische
Bibliothek Töpelmann; 70. Bd.
BJ1275.W67 1995
241'.043-dc20 95-42323
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Worship and ethics : Lutherans and Anglicans in dialogue / ed. by
Oswald Bayer and Alan Suggate. — Berlin ; New York : de Gruyter,
1996
(Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann ; Bd. 70)
ISBN 3-11-014377-1
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Acknowledgements
The contributors to this volume are glad to acknowledge with grat-
itude the generous financial support of the British Council and the
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst towards this project, lat-
terly through the newly established British German Academic Re-
search Collaboration Programme, and of their own several institu-
tions.
They are also very grateful to the Lutherisches Kirchenamt in Han-
nover for its generous financial support of the publication of this book.
They also acknowledge with gratitude the assistance of Ms
Christine Helmer and Dr Douglas Hedley in translating the essay
of Thomas Reinhuber and the first essay of Hans Ulrich respectively.

Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction by the Editors xi
Part I: Traditions 1
The Anglican Tradition of Moral Theology
Alan M. Suggate 2
A Modern Understanding of Christian Ethics in the
Perspective of its own Tradition
Hans G. Ulrich 26
Hastings Rashdall as Social Theologian: Critical Methodology
and the Rhetoric of Brotherhood
Anthony Dyson 59
Ernst Troeltsch's Ethics of Compromise and its Significance
for Contemporary Theological Ethics
Thomas Reinhuber 88
Part II: Foundations 117
The Foundation of Cognition and Ethics in Worship
Daniel W. Hardy 118
Worship and Theology
Oswald Bayer 148
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Part III: Mediations 163
In Search of a Eucharistie Social Ethic
Alan M. Suggate 164
Social Ethics as an Ethics of Responsibility
Oswald Bayer 187
Fundamentals of the Economic Ethics of Arthur Rich
Theodor Dieter 202
Integrity in Business: A Christian Approach to Business
Ethics
Richard A. Higginson 232
Part IV: Integrity 257
Worship and True or False Narrative
Peter H. Sedgwick 258
Justification and Responsibility for the World: their Place in
Life, Worship and Pastoral Ministry
Klaus Sturm 278
Retrospect and Prospect
Hans G. Ulrich . . . 285
Contributors 295