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Further Reading:

Christian Morality & Ethics

  • Alasdair C. MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory.

  • Alasdair C. MacIntyre, Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues.

  • Allen Verhey, Remembering Jesus: Christian Community, Scripture, and the Moral Life.

  • Andrew Brian McGowan, Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective.

  • Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.

  • Basil of Caesarea, On Christian Ethics.

  • Brad Hooker, Developing Deontology: New Essays in Ethical Theory.

  • Brian Brock, Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture.

  • Charles Curran and Richard McCormick, The Use of Scripture in Moral Theology.

  • Christopher R.J. Holmes, Ethics in the Presence of Christ.

  • Daniel C. Russell, The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics.

  • Daniel J. Harrington and James F. Keenan, Jesus and Virtue Ethics: Building Bridges Between New Testament Studies and Moral Theology.

  • David A. Clairmont, Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics: On the Person as Classic in Comparative Theological Contexts.

  • David W. Jones, An Introduction to Biblical Ethics.

  • Elizabeth Agnew Cochran, Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics.

  • Elizabeth Theokritoff, Living in God’s Creation: Orthodox Perspectives on Ecology.

  • Frank Matera, New Testament Ethics: The Legacies of Jesus and Paul.

  • Geert Roskam, On the Path to Virtue: The Stoic Doctrine of Moral Progress and Its Reception in (Middle-) Platonism.

  • Gilbert Meilaender, The Theory and Practice of Virtue.

  • Gregory of Nyssa, On the Soul and the Resurrection.

  • Hans Boersma, Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa: An Anagogical Approach.

  • James Wetzel, Augustine and the Limits of Virtue.

  • Jean Porter, Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of the Natural Law.

  • Jean Porter, The Recovery of Virtue: The Relevance of Aquinas for Christian Ethics.

  • Jean-Luc Marion, The Visible and the Revealed.

  • Jeffrey S. Siker, Scripture and Ethics: Twentieth-Century Portraits.

  • Jennifer A. Herdt, Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices.

  • John Breck, God with Us: Critical Issues in Christian Life and Faith.

  • John D. Zizioulas, Communion and Otherness: Further Studies in Personhood and the Church.

  • Jonathan J. Sanford, Before Virtue: Assessing Contemporary Virtue Ethics.

  • Joseph J. Kotva, The Christian Case for Virtue Ethics.

  • Joseph Mendola, Goodness and Justice: A Consequentialist Moral Theology.

  • Joseph Woodill, The Fellowship of Life: Virtue Ethics and Orthodox Christianity.

  • Julia Annas, Intelligent Virtue.

  • Kathy L. Gaca, The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity.

  • Kevin Corrigan, Dr. Lewis Ayres, and Professor Patricia Cox Miller, Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity: Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul, and Body in the 4th Century.   

  • Kevin M. Clarke, The Seven Deadly Sins.

  • Lisa Sowle Cahill, Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics.

  • Michael R. DePaul and Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski, Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and   Epistemology.

  • Michael Slote, From Morality to Virtue.

  • Michael Slote, The Impossibility of Perfection: Aristotle, Feminism, and the Complexities of Ethics.

  • Nafsika Athanassoulis, Virtue Ethics.

  • Nancy C. Murphy, Brad J. Kallenberg, and Mark Nation, Virtues & Practices in the Christian Tradition: Christian Ethics after Macintyre.

  • Nancy Elizabeth Van Heusen, The Place of the Psalms in the Intellectual Culture of the Middle Ages.

  • Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Hermeneutics of Holiness: Ancient Jewish and Christian Notions of Sexuality and Religious Community.

  • Paul Evdokimov, Ages of the Spiritual Life.

  • Paul T. Jersild, Spirit Ethics: Scripture and the Moral Life.

  • Peter C. Bouteneff, Sweeter Than Honey: Orthodox Thinking on Dogma and Truth.

  • Peter R.L. Brown, The Body and Society: Men and Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity.

  • Philip J. Wogaman, Christian Ethics: A Historical Introduction.

  • Philippa Foot, Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy.

  • Richard B. Hays, New Testament Ethics: The Story Retold.

  • Richard B. Hays, The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics.

  • Robert J. Daly, Christian Biblical Ethics: From Biblical Revelation to Contemporary Christian Praxis: Method and Content.

  • Robert Merrihew Adams, A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the Good.

  • Robin Darling Young and Monica J. Blanchard, To Train His Soul in Books: Syriac Asceticism in Early Christianity.

  • Rosalind Hursthouse, On Virtue Ethics.

  • Rowan A. Greer and J. Warren Smith, One Path for All: Gregory of Nyssa in the Christian Life and Human Destiny.

  • Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic.

  • Stanley Hauerwas, Character and the Christian Life: A Study in Theological Ethics.

  • Stanley Hauerwas, Christian Existence Today: Essays on Church, World, and Living in Between.

  • Stanley Hauerwas, The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics.

  • Stanley Hauerwas, Vision and Virtue: Essays in Christian Ethical Reflection.

  • Stephen E. Fowl and L. Gregory Jones, Reading in Communion: Scripture and Ethics in Christian Life.

  • Stephen L. Darwall, Deontology.

  • Stephen M. Meawad, Beyond Virtue Ethics: A Contemporary Ethic of Ancient Spiritual Struggle.   

  • Victor Paul Furnish, The Moral Teaching of Paul: Selected Issues.

  • Vigen Guroian, Incarnate Love: Essays in Orthodox Ethics.

  • Warren J. Smith, Passion and Paradise: Human and Divine Emotion in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa.

  • William Brown, Character and Scripture: Moral Formation, Community, and Biblical Interpretation.   

  • William C. Mattison, Introducing Moral Theology: True Happiness and the Virtues.

  • William C. Mattison, The Sermon on the Mount and Moral Theology: A Virtue Perspective.   

  • William C. Spohn, What Are They Saying About Scripture and Ethics?.

  • William Werpehowski and Kathryn Getek Soltis, Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives.

  • Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan, Biblical Ethics in the 21st Century: Developments, Emerging Consensus, and Future Directions.


Disclaimer: This list serves as a collection of various perspectives, titles, and backgrounds, and may not necessarily endorse the teaching, history, and understanding of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

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