Part III. R. Kent Greenawalt. Part I. Religion, conscience, and the law : reasons, bases, and limits for exemptions / Conscience in the New Testament / Wendell Willis -- Conscience and natural law in scripture / David VanDrunen -- Conscience in early Christian thought / John Anthony McGuckin -- Sensus fidei, the magisterium, and the formation of conscience / E. Christian Brugger -- Part II. Conscience according to major figures and traditions -- Conscience in the early church fathers / Alexis Torrance -- St. Thomas Aquinas on conscience / Cajetan Cuddy OP -- Reforming the conscience : magisterial reformers on the theory and practice of conscience / John L. Thompson -- Toward a theology of a redeemed conscience / Jeffrey B. Hammond -- Pierre Bayle : an enlightened alternative to John Locke / Edward Andrew -- Freedom of conscience and its right to constitutional protection : the contribution of Roger Williams / David Little -- Jonathan Edwards on conscience / Michael McClymond -- Obeying God rather than men : uneasy evangelicals, conscience, and politics / Micah Watson -- Mormonism and conscience / Rosalynde Welch and Nathan B. Oman -- Culture and conscience in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI / Peter J. Casarella -- Part III. Applied topics in law and conscience -- Liberty of conscience, free exercise of religion, and the US Constitution / Nathan S. Chapman -- Religious conscience protections in American state constitutions / Michael J. DeBoer -- Forced conformity or accommodation? : reconciling conscience and difference in a pluralistic democracy / Mark Rienzi -- Christian conscience and sexual expression rights / Helen M. Alvare -- Conscience and the Roman Catholic "just war" tradition / Joseph E. Capizzi -- Institutional conscience, corporate persons, and Hobby Lobby / Christopher Tollefsen -- Religion, conscience, and the law : reasons, bases, and limits for exemptions / R. Kent Greenawalt.
Summary:
"A broad array of Christians has wrestled with the subject of conscience from the beginnings of Christianity to the present time. Remarkably--given their differing nationalities, historical circumstances, and religious convictions--leading thinkers have regularly pursued similar questions about conscience. Sometimes they have reached overlapping conclusions. Often, however, concerning both large and small matters, they arrive at different or even radically different answers. But the persistence and correspondence of their inquiries remains a testament to the innate and universal importance of the matter of conscience"-- Provided by publisher.
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