Love Your Neighbor

Love Your Neighbor: Thinking Wisely about Right and Wrong
Norman L. Geisler, Ryan P. Snuffer

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Readers are challenged to think biblically and critically through several specific ethical issues, such as war, poverty, ecology, capital punishment, stem cell research, human cloning, and more.

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Contents

List of Illustrations 9
Part One. Introduction to Christian Ethics
1. The Nature of God 13
2. The Nature of Morality 19
3. The Old Testament Law 23
4. The Heart of the Law 29
5. Relativistic Ethical Systems 33
6. Absolutist Ethical Systems (Part 1) 37
7. Absolutist Ethical Systems (Part 2) 43
8. Facing the Issues 47
Part Two. The Issues
9. Lying 53
10. Cheating 59
11. Stealing 63
12. Civil Disobedience 67
13. Economic Injustice 71
14. Homosexual Sin 77
15. Heterosexual Sin 83
16. Pornography 89
17. Marriage and Divorce 93
18. Ecological Issues 101
19. Ethics and Politics 111
20. Abortion 115
21. Euthanasia 123
22. Cloning 129
23. Stem Cell Research and Other Biomedical Issues 135
24. Capital Punishment 141
25. War 149
26. Substance Abuse 155
Appendix A: Christian Liberty 159
Appendix B: For Teachers and Small Group Leaders 167
Glossary 177
General Index 181
Scripture Index 185

About the Contributors

Norman L. Geisler is author or coauthor of some sixty books, including The Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics and his four-volume Systematic Theology. He has taught at the university and graduate level for nearly forty years and has spoken or debated in all fifty states and in twenty-five countries. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Loyola University and now serves as president of Southern Evangelical Seminary.

Ryan P. Snuffer serves as minister of discipleship at the United Methodist Temple and teaches philosophy and religious studies at Mountain State University in Beckley, West Virginia.