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Introduction / Helen M. Alvaré and Jeffrey B. Hammond -- New Testament on Conscience / 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 -- 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 -- Applied Topics in Law and Conscience -- Liberty of Conscience, Free Exercise of Religion, and the U.S. Constitution / Nathan S. Chapman -- Religious Conscience Protections in American State Constitutions / Michael J. DeBoer -- Forced Conformity or Accommodation? : How to Reconcile Conscience -- and Difference in a Pluralistic Democracy / Mark Rienzi -- Christian Conscience and Sexual Expression Rights / Helen M. Alvaré -- Conscience and War / Joseph Capizzi -- Institutional Conscience, Corporate Persons, and Hobby Lobby / Christopher Tollefsen -- Religion, Conscience, and the Law : Reasons, Bases, and Limits for -- Exemptions / R. Kent Greenawalt.

Conscience has long been a foundational theme in Christian ethics, but it is a notoriously slippery and contested term. This volume works to define conscience and reveal the similarities and differences between different Christian traditions' thinking on the subject. In a thorough and scholarly manner, the authors explore Christian theological, legal, constitutional, historical, and philosophical meanings of conscience. Covering a range of historical periods, major figures in the development of conscience, and contemporary applications, this book is a vital source for scholars from a wide variety of disciplines seeking to understand conscience from a range of perspectives.