Costly Obedience

Costly Obedience: Introduction
I. The meaning of moral formation in church and world
A. Moral formation and "ethics"
B. The meaning of "moral formation"
C. Moral formation in the church
D. Moral formation in and by the world
E. Churchly and worldly formations in interaction
II. Formation and malformation in our encounters with the public world
A. Malformation: moral failure in the face of ethnic violence and warfare between nation-states
B. Formation toward truth and reconciliation: the anti-apartheid struggle and its aftermath
III. Eucharist and Baptism as contexts of formation
A. Moral formation in the context of the eucharistic liturgy
B. Baptism as the sign of membership in one morally witnessing people of God
IV. Toward communion in moral witnessing
A. Transcending old vocabularies
B. A freedom to seek new patterns
C. Ecclesio-moral formation as the clue
D. A focus on the immediate and the local
E. Reconstructing the oikoumene
F. The World Council of Churches as marker and space-maker for an Ecumenical moral communion
Costly Obedience: List of Participants
Costly Obedience: Notes